reduce your dog or cat’s carbon paw print with “flatulence cards”
Easy Being Green is selling “flatulence cards” for your dog and cat that they claim will help offset your pet’s carbon pawprint. 35 Australian dollars (approx. $27.00 U.S.) is the cost for a dog and $6.00 U.S. for a cat. Your pet’s needs cause a certain amount of carbon to be emitted when you break down such things as the making of pet foods, the transportation of pet foods and similar items, the drive to vet appointments, or for people like myself-everywhere I drive the dog goes too,
and of course the methane that gets released into the atmosphere when you are all sitting around watching TV after dinner. Here is a link to a good Guardian article called “Tackling the carbon pawprint” about various effects pets have on the environment.
The flatulence cards are a novel way to both draw attention to this issue and to make efforts to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But one wonders if carbon offsetting isn’t just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic! While its great that EasyBeingGreen is using the money to install energy-saving fluorescent light bulbs and water-saving shower heads in houses in New South Wales, Australia but will this really have anything more than a novelty effect? Still you have to give them credit for cleverness. Here is a link to a National Geographic article about this company.
