OT FAO: - Martin, though I'm sure there are others who would be interested.
 

Martin et al,

The website below was printed on the back of my packet of Whole Earth Foods
Cocoa Crunch (to which I'm very much addicted :o))

It calculates your total gas, electricity, fuel oil and coal usages for a
year and then converts that into CO2 emissions and then trees. For example,
if you reckon that you have a total annual gas bill of £200, it estimates
that equates to 2.9 tonnes of CO2 or 4 trees. It then invites you to offset
your usage by purchasing the trees at £10 each, to be planted in one of
three locations (Aberdeenshire, Leicestershire or, for some bizarre reason,
Mexico). You can even choose to have a dedication on your trees.

I have calculated our consumption (there are three of us) and it came to 6
trees so I have paid up my £60 for last year...

Obviously they are hoping that people will do it every year - making you
feel a little less guilty about using fossil fuels.

www.futureforests.com




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In message , Miss
Perspicacia Tick writes
Martin et al,

The website below was printed on the back of my packet of Whole Earth Foods
Cocoa Crunch (to which I'm very much addicted :o))

It calculates your total gas, electricity, fuel oil and coal usages for a
year and then converts that into CO2 emissions and then trees. For example,
if you reckon that you have a total annual gas bill of £200, it estimates
that equates to 2.9 tonnes of CO2 or 4 trees. It then invites you to offset
your usage by purchasing the trees at £10 each, to be planted in one of
three locations (Aberdeenshire, Leicestershire or, for some bizarre reason,
Mexico). You can even choose to have a dedication on your trees.

I have calculated our consumption (there are three of us) and it came to 6
trees so I have paid up my £60 for last year...

Obviously they are hoping that people will do it every year - making you
feel a little less guilty about using fossil fuels.

www.futureforests.com




Since I live in Aberdeenshire I will just plant a few trees.

Anyone wanting to do the same - all £10s gratefully received. I promise
to enrich my environment by planting trees for you :-)))
--
Sue Begg
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Do not mess in the affairs of dragons - for
you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message from "Miss Perspicacia Tick" contains these words:
The website below was printed on the back of my packet of Whole Earth Foods
Cocoa Crunch (to which I'm very much addicted :o))

I hope "Whole Earth" factored in the airmiles of imported the cocoa

Cocoa? By air? Anyway, WEF has a *frightful* site, IMO.

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 13:03:39 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

The message
from "Miss Perspicacia Tick" contains these words:

Martin et al,

The website below was printed on the back of my packet of Whole Earth Foods
Cocoa Crunch (to which I'm very much addicted :o))

It calculates your total gas, electricity, fuel oil and coal usages for a
year and then converts that into CO2 emissions and then trees. For
example,
if you reckon that you have a total annual gas bill of ?200, it estimates
that equates to 2.9 tonnes of CO2 or 4 trees. It then invites you to offset
your usage by purchasing the trees at ?10 each, to be planted in one of
three locations (Aberdeenshire, Leicestershire or, for some bizarre reason,
Mexico). You can even choose to have a dedication on your trees.

I have calculated our consumption (there are three of us) and it came to 6
trees so I have paid up my ?60 for last year...

Obviously they are hoping that people will do it every year - making you
feel a little less guilty about using fossil fuels.

I hope "Whole Earth" factored in the airmiles of imported the cocoa
used to make a cheap nutritious locally grown food into a highly
processed one tasting of something exotic. And the oil and trees used to
create printed cereal-packets to bear their message about squandered
resources.

Good old "the world owes me" janet, get right in there you pro hunt
nut.

Sue Begg wrote:
In message , Miss
Perspicacia Tick writes
Martin et al,

The website below was printed on the back of my packet of Whole
Earth Foods Cocoa Crunch (to which I'm very much addicted :o))

It calculates your total gas, electricity, fuel oil and coal
usages
for a year and then converts that into CO2 emissions and then
trees. For example, if you reckon that you have a total annual gas
bill of £200, it estimates that equates to 2.9 tonnes of CO2 or 4
trees. It then invites you to offset your usage by purchasing the
trees at £10 each, to be planted in one of three locations
(Aberdeenshire, Leicestershire or, for some bizarre reason,
Mexico).
You can even choose to have a dedication on your trees.

I have calculated our consumption (there are three of us) and it
came to 6 trees so I have paid up my £60 for last year...

Obviously they are hoping that people will do it every year -
making
you feel a little less guilty about using fossil fuels.

www.futureforests.com




Since I live in Aberdeenshire I will just plant a few trees.

Anyone wanting to do the same - all £10s gratefully received. I
promise to enrich my environment by planting trees for you :-)))

Good conscience going cheap! I'll do it for a fiver.

--
Mike.

The message
from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:

Good conscience going cheap! I'll do it for a fiver.

Call that a concience?

Slip us a quid a time, and I'll plant Leylandii all over the shop, innit.

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