Flying Carbon Neutral: EcoVerdance and Terrapass

I’m attending the excellent Future in Review conference this week in sunny San Diego. This year’s theme focuses on climate crisis, and at least two companies are present that offer carbon offsets that travelers can take advantage of.

TerraPass has calculators for various flying scenarios and offers products to balance emissions. They leverage three types of projects: clean energy produced by wind power; farm power such as dairy farm methane digesters; and landfill methane capture.

EcoVerdance takes a different approach. Their primary method of carbon-dioxide reduction involves the purchase and donation of Accele-Gro-M, a plant growth enhancer that’s applied in developing countries with the help of non-governmental/charitable organizations.

The EcoVerdance folks have provided an entire year’s worth of registered carbon credits for each Future in Review participant, which means this reporter is covered for the next 364 days.

So, I’ve got that going for me…