{"id":768,"date":"2007-03-23T06:46:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T11:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=768"},"modified":"2007-03-23T06:46:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T11:46:28","slug":"my-truck-is-carbon-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"My Truck is Carbon Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I bought a road TerraPass.<br \/>\nThis program offsets the carbon dioxide emissions of vehicles, airplanes and home energy sources by funding alternative energy projects, like wind energy.<br \/>\nThe TerraPass website calculates the emissions, then figures out the contribution needed to offset that amount of CO<sup>2<\/sup> pollution.  For my truck, it works out to about 12,000 pounds of CO<sup>2<\/sup> a year, a pound per mile.<br \/>\nI found out about the TerraPass program at work: their hosting company is a corporate member.<br \/>\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/enterprise.amd.com\/Downloads\/svrpwrusecompletefinal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published earlier this year estimated that servers, including cooling and auxiliary infrastructure, consume 1.2% of the total electricity in the US &#8211; about the same as color televisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I bought a road TerraPass. This program offsets the carbon dioxide emissions of vehicles, airplanes and home energy sources by funding alternative energy projects, like wind energy. The TerraPass website calculates the emissions, then figures out the contribution needed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=768\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}