Think before you offset...

...and definitely minimise before you think about offsetting:)

We use www.co2balance.com they do good, they think responsibly have great projects and we've had the great if short (babysitter) fun of meeting them at the wonderful Lewinnick lodge in Newquay and they are passionate about what they do and that counts big time at Leap.

However thereare a lot of shoddy practices that are starting to be exposed. See www.robedwards.com/2007/02/from_sunday_her.html This scheme is breathtaking in its misrepresentation. They are also the organisation behind the Coldplay Forest debacle, which you may have read about. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/30/ngreen30.xml This is what happens when a carbon management organisation sub-contracts its carbon saving projects. co2balance deliberately do not do this and only invest in projects that we have initiated and continue to control.

Matt

ps reduce and at the last offset. Oh and trees are ace and good to plant so do it anyway (but make sure you look after them - a tree is for many lives not just for a bit of climate guilt smoothing:)