Balance your cosmos (or at least, your car)

Posted on December 18, 2005 by Gene

This is a rather cool idea — TerraPass. Basically, you figure out the impact your car has on the environment, then you buy a TerraPass, which uses the money to fund clean energy programs to offset the pollution from your car. Thus, you get a kind of karmic balance, offsetting the pollution you generate with funding to clean it up! You even get a neat sticker.
It turns out that my car generates a smidge over 3,000 lbs of CO2 per year, which is pretty impressive considering that the average SUV puts out 12,000 lbs. So, I could get a TerraPass for $30, which would offset 6,000 lbs of CO2, leaving me with a positive balance in karma. Cool!