Impetus: Message from Marcia

Starting from the beginning - a message was sent from Marcia to all_users on Nov 14.

Marcia wrote:
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> To All
> I have just returned from ETH, Zurich, where they have initiated two
> programs some of you may be interested in:
>
> 1. They 'compensate' all Carbon and aerosol emissions related to
> professional travel,
> using calculations by the organization MyClimate (see below).
> MyClimate was initiated and developed by graduate students at ETH and
> is one of four similar organizations receiving top grades in a recent
> Tufts University study. Lufthansa and Swiss Air routinely ask if you
> want to pay the extra bit to pay for the compensations.
> ETH pays the fees for all professional travel by its employees.
>
> To contact MyClimate: kathrin.dellantonio@myclimate.org or just go to
> http://www.myclimate.org.
>
> Maybe future conferences here could encourage voluntary participation
> in such a program.
>
> 2. A group at ETH developed the idea of the '2000 Watt' society
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Watt_society)
> which seems like an interesting benchmark to include in public
> presentations. (The hard part is converting the 'therms' from our
> energy bills to Watts.)
>
> Marcia