Offset some carbon just by clicking, and ditch your incandescents too!

Would you like to offset some CO2 just by clicking on nonsense? Apparently by clicking on links on sites such as
ecologyfund.com and StopGlobalWarming.Care2.com you are offsetting CO2 emissions, because the money paid by the advertisers on the site is donated to projects that do things like plant trees, develop renewable energy projects and so on. So go ahead, click away.

I found those two links on

http://www.wikihow.com/Offset-Carbon-for-Free

WTF, I know.

Other things work too. We don't have a single incandescent light bulb in our apartment anymore. I have replaced them all with compact flourescents. I replaced the two 60 watt light bulbs that were in the living room with 11 watt light bulbs that are just as silent and emit the exact same amount of yellow light as the 60 watt bulbs. This saves us 98 watts per hour when both lights are on in the living room.

I also removed the two 100 watt light bulbs from the hall, the 100 watt and 60 watt bulbs in the bathrooms, the 60 watt bulb in the bedroom and the 60 watt bulb in the patio light and replaced each with 11 watt CFLs. I could have replaced the 100 watt bulbs with 20 watt CFLs designed to emit the same light as 100 watt bulbs, but I opted for the 11 watt CFL bulbs that emit the same as 60 watt bulbs, because I determined that the "100 watt effect" seemed too bright and we really only need the "60 watt effect". The 40 watt bulb in the reading lamp in the bedroom is also gone. I replaced it with a 7 watt energy saving replacement for a 40 watt.

Oh the savings and the reduced carbon!

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Now some of you might have heard Rush Limbaugh and other clueless anti-environmental Republicans bashing CFLs and claiming their mercury is dangerous. Most of the rumors being spread by anti-Green right-wingers about CFLs being dangerous are pure nonsense. One CFL bulb, the standard kind that fits in a normal light socket, has only as much mercury as could fit on the tiny tip of a ball point pen. Most people who got tooth fillings years ago have MUCH more than that in their mouths seeping into their bodies all the time. Moreover, certain power generation methods such as coal burning release much larger amounts of mercury into the environment as a result of people using old 100 watt bulbs all the time than the extremely tiny and harmless amount of mercury that gets released if a CFL accidentally breaks. Still, it's a good idea to recycle old CFLs. At least where we live in Prague, there are drop boxes for recycling batteries and old eco-bulbs at many supermarkets.