[bestbits] Reducing our carbon footprint

[Michael Oghia]

Hi everyone,

Last year, I began researching the connection between sustainability, the
environment, and the Internet/ICTs. Lately, though, I've been struggling
with something. We in the Internet governance community travel – a lot.
Each and every flight has significant costs: not just the monetary ones,
but also in terms of carbon emissions.

The world's getting warmer, and we all need to do our part to curb climate
change, including the community. As such, I turned my feelings of guilt
into a guide with a viable solution: carbon offsetting – investing in
environmental or energy projects to offset the emissions generated
elsewhere. In this article, I provide an overview of carbon offsetting, a
guide to investing in carbon offsetting programs, and conclude with a call
to action by the Internet governance community to research and ultimately
invest in suitable carbon offsetting programs. *Moreover, one of the
additional benefits of carbon offsetting is that it is largely tax
deductible. *

I want to bring the article to your attention, which you can read here:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20170815_aviation_the_di
rty_not_so_little_secret_of_internet_governance/

In case you wonder what this has to do with Internet governance, consider
it an auxillary issue. As such, I also include a recommendation of making
carbon emissions calculating and reporting a required aspect of meeting
planning, with the ultimate goal to reduce emissions as much as possible

Feel free to share this with your networks, especially those individuals
that focus on logistics or conference organizing.

Thank you,
-Michael
__________________

Michael J. Oghia
Independent #netgov consultant & editor

Belgrade, Serbia
Skype: mikeoghia
Twitter <https://www.twitter.com/MikeOghia> *|* LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoghia>

Best,
-Michael
__________________

Michael J. Oghia
Independent #netgov consultant & editor

Belgrade, Serbia
Skype: mikeoghia
Twitter <https://www.twitter.com/MikeOghia> *|* LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoghia>
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