Carbon offsetting promised an effortless way to feel guiltless about your carbon footprint. You pay some company every time you go on a flight and they'll invest your money in one of various projects that promises to 'offset' the amount of carbon you've just used - a wind farm in a developing country; a solar-panel in an African school. But does that actually help stop climate change at all? Shouldn't you be looking for a way not just to offset your carbon footprint but to actually downsize it? The guys at cheatneutral.com have come up with a very cool explanation of why offsetting doesn't work. Well worth a watch.
filt.
(in prescriptions) filter.
[Origin: < NL filtrā]
nib [nib]
–noun
1. the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
2. a penpoint for insertion into a penholder.
3. a point of anything: a cutting tool with a diamond nib.
4. a bill or beak, as of a bird; neb.
5. any pointed extremity.
[Origin: 1575–85; perh. var. of neb; cf. D nib, MLG nibbe (var. of nebbe) beak, ON nibba sharp point. See nibble]
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A Note From Lady Catherine of Springstones, Keighley
To the weary traveller who comes across this place on a cold and windy night, of the kind so characteristic of the web's peculiar climes, welcome.
As the patron of Filtnib, who speaks so freely within these imaginary walls, I have many criticisms of both his style and his opinions. Yet he is young and, I trust, is already learning. I hold out hope that my patronage of this place will lend him the means to achieve better things in coming years.
I can deduce as yet very little in the way of thematic coherence in Filtnib's musings and can only offer my apologies on this account.
Comments are welcome.
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