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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 )) 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 -- In memory of MS MVP Alex Nichol: http://www.dts-l.org/ |
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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 )) 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 Remove my clothes to reply Do not mess in the affairs of dragons - for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! |
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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 )) I hope "Whole Earth" factored in the airmiles of imported the cocoa Cocoa? By air? Anyway, WEF has a *frightful* site, IMO. |
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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 )) 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. |
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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 )) 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. |
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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. -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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