Airports Going Green?

In the San Fransisco Airport, they now have kiosks that can calculate on a trip the estimated amount of carbon put out of the plane by a single person. This really caught my eye when I read that. It does all of this by asking the travelers origin and destination, number of passengers and whether they plan to fly round-trip. A computer program then calculates a fee, which can be paid by credit card, that goes toward offsetting the carbon dioxide put out into the atmosphere by the airplane they flew on during their trip. That's awesome that we finally made something to start getting greener. It then continued on by saying that for every ton of emissions polluted, each person is responsible for paying $13.50. Every $12, goes to the efforts to suck up the carbon dioxide. And the other $1.50 goes to help fund green initiatives. Every year, forests suck up a juicy 3 tons of carbon dioxide said Chris Kelly of the Conservation Fund, the nonprofit that manages the forest. As I am finishing up, I just think its great that we are thinking of ways to help undo the damage done to the forests, the ozone, and more.