{"id":316,"date":"2006-12-24T19:19:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T02:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2006-12-24T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T02:21:00","slug":"carbon-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/12\/24\/carbon-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonfootprint.com\/index.html\">Carbon Footprint<\/a> includes a &#8220;calculator&#8221; for estimating one&#8217;s personal contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere and suggests various ways of reducing or offsetting it. But the encouragement to &#8220;plant trees&#8221; (or pay for same) may be misguided, since it seems clear that it is the lifetime carbon sequestration that is being assigned for each tree so the instruction &#8220;plant 5 trees&#8221; means plant 5 trees every year AND make sure that they all grow to maturity and are never used for fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon Footprint includes a &#8220;calculator&#8221; for estimating one&#8217;s personal contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere and suggests various ways of reducing or offsetting it. But the encouragement to &#8220;plant trees&#8221; (or pay for same) may be misguided, since it seems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2006\/12\/24\/carbon-footprint\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}