Shared Services Footprint

Sarah,

Our carbon-calculator ninja (and co-founder) Andy R. has told me that, yes, we actually do get a little footprint reduction here! Forests -- the healthy, mature kind at least -- tend to function as carbon sinks. Forests on public lands pay us citizens a "dividend" of sorts -- a share of pushback against greenhouse emissions. It's one of the things we get in return for nurturing and protecting forested areas; the negative number is enough to cancel out our personal share of CO2 emissions caused by government operations.

All that said, we need to do a better job of explaining things like this wherever they occur. Thanks for pointing it out; it's now on my list of spots that need interface copy that spells things out.

Cheers,
Ian @ Brighter Planet