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The Greening of CES
Did they pay you to consult with them?
We're a nonprofit organization. They [just] pay for the offsets.
Have you done a trade show this big before?
This is by a lot of estimations the biggest trade show on earth. For us it's great to be a part of it.
What specifically happens at a hotel that you can offset?
Hotels are typically front end and back end. What the guests sees is front-end: the room, hallway lighting, the minibar. Then there's the cleaning of the towels, production of food and all the things that happen behind the scenes. You end up with an average figure and you come up with a per-night carbon footprint so that way you don't have to go to every specific hotel and calculate.
And what emissions are there on the show floor itself?
That's the energy used by the convention center and the hotels that are hosting the exhibits. It's electricity and it's gas.
The hotel would be operating whether or not this convention would be happening. Which suggests that any average traveler leaves a trail of emissions behind him.
I think every responsible consumer should offset as much of their personal life as they can. When you travel you have an impact on climate change. You can do something about it. I think it's simply responsible to offset the carbon emissions from your air travel, your hotel. By offsetting your travel you drive investment in clean energy.
I'm flying to Vegas on Sunday. My flight has apparently not been offset. What can I do?
Go to our Web site and on it simply put in where you're flying from [New York] and to [Las Vegas] and they'll tell you the carbon footprint of that flight. Roundtrip that's 2.19 tons of CO2 and that's about 4,800 pounds of CO2. To offset that is just over $12.
That's it?
What an offset really represents is the additional funds needed to make a project cost-effective. The good news is that if we want to fight climate change, there are solutions out there that don't cost too much.
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Posted By: levee4u @ 01/06/2008 11:18:54 PM
Comment: Carbon offsets are a great way to reduce your climate impact and help us make clean energy cost less than dirty energy. If you are going to get in a plane, for whatever reason, you have a carbon footprint. If you turn on the lights in your home, heat your home or commute to work on a subway, you have a climate impact. If you eat food or wear clothes or use a computer for work that were made with energy, you have a carbon footprint.
And that gives you choices: do something or do nothing. Carbon offsets empower people to do have a positive impact against global warming.
Posted By: levee4u @ 01/06/2008 11:09:00 PM
Comment: I am glad to see CES showing such leadership on global warming, which threatens all of us. We need to reduce our emissions as much as possible but we also need to work, travel and live, so doing so in as green a way as possible is vital and CES is showing how we can do both. It just makes sense that if you are going to cause emissions from something you need to do, you would reduce emissions somewhere else, like with wind energy or energy efficiency.
I was pumped to read about all the new green products using recycled materials and less energy. We need to attack this from multiple angles.