It's Earth Day: Is your blog carbon-neutral?

My kids worked on Earth Day projects at school today. They wrote letters to "Mother Earth" and brought home little trees to plant in the yard. It reminded me of something - a little while ago, I received an email from a German organization, kaufDA, which plants trees to balance the CO₂ produced by the computers and servers necessary to make blogging posible. According to the statistics posted on their site, the average blog generates 3.6 kg of CO₂ in a year; this information is based on a study by Dr. Wissner-Gross, a physicist who calculated that a pageview results in the production of 0.02 g of carbon dioxide. The "Make Your Blog Carbon Neutral" program plants a tree in honour of participating blogs. Since a tree absorbs about 5kg of CO₂ in a year, the program effectively balances the carbon footprint of a typical blog. Not a bad thing to do on Earth Day!

Family Anatomy is carbon neutral! Here are a couple of links to articles we've written about nature / the environment and mental health:

Ecopsychology and spending time outside Nature Art and therapy

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