Travel offsets

I just returned from a ten-day trip involving flights from Boston to Las Vegas (via Los Angeles) and a whole lot of driving, from Vegas to the Grand Canyon to Zion National Park to the Hoover Dam and back to Vegas. That’s about 770 miles of driving. Still, the airplane travel was an order of magnitude worse in terms of carbon emissions. Today, I bought carbon offsets to reduce the impact of this trip.

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