And the Word of the Year Is: Carbon Neutral! (Wait that's two...but still, Huzzah!)

As I bought my ticket to fly home for Thanksgiving this morning I was thrilled to find an optional add on for TerraPass. For $5.99 I was able to make my flight "carbon neutral," meaning that my $5.99 would go directly to funding alternative energy projects such as wind farms, which directly lead to reduced carbon emissions, thus making my trip as beneficial to out environment as it is harmful and netting it out to zero carbon impact...or some such thing. I'm sure that sounds like a lot of hooey to many of you, but the idea that these little green solutions are making their way into the mainstream is really exciting to me.

On top of that, during my daily trip to my favorite crunchy, yet slick, site, Treehugger, I came across this article:

Word of the Year: Carbon Neutral

It's good to know that in the same year we see the opening of a Creationist museum, we're also witnessing the mainstream greening of our culture. I guess that leaves us reasonably neutral.