Going Carbon Neutral

Reduce Your Own Emissions First (7/7)

Given its shortcomings, many agree that carbon offsetting is only the second-best solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Cutting your own emissions helps much more than paying someone else to do it. Once harmful gases are in the atmosphere, there is not much you can do to make them disappear again. Or as one offsetting company puts it, “Reduce what you can, offset what you can’t.” (Photo: Reuters)