Want to fight global warming without changing anything about lifestyle?
Thinking Thomas Friedman and his astute "we don't have to change a thing, now let's go get 'em!" analysis is onto something, with Gore and Schwarzenegger? (But not with James Kunstler?)
Then "Tom the Dancing Bug" has a take on carbon offsets for you! It's at Salon (go here, and wait a sec for the ad, then you'll get to it).
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