Green Leaf Report

My Earth Day resolution this year was to continue to chip away at the personal and professional challenges to living right.   In honor of Earth Day, this past week I’ve:

Planted another tree in my yard. It’s an apricot tree- so hopefully it will have a dual role of absorbing CO2 and providing local fruit.
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*The title is meant to be sung to the Barney tune of “If Raindrops were Gumdrops.”
Every night my son and I share a bowl of ice cream, and I’ve noticed a parallel between my household’s ice cream interaction and the global economic demand and supply of oil. In this story:

I will represent the American economy. […]

When are carbon emissions not carbon emissions?  Apparently when you pay some money to another vendor, then poof, they can suddenly become “offset.”  Over the past week I’ve been in an email discussion with a former coworker about whether there can be any value to carbon offsets.  He adamantly believes no, and I’ve been trying to argue […]