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CO2-phobe chooses to participate in long fossil-fueled airplane race; raises money for charity; blows money on carbon offsets

The Air Race Classic is a four-day race which travels 2,715 miles crossing through nine states across the Midwest and finishes in Atlantic, Iowa.
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Along with completing the race, Unger hopes to raise money for charity and fly a carbon neutral race. Unger has raised more than $21,000 from a four-tiered sponsor list, donating funds to Wings of Hope, a program that uses volunteer pilots and flight nurses to provide air-ambulance service in the U.S. and medical assistance to poor nations around the world. To reduce the environmental impact, Unger purchased carbon offsets.

"I've been working on climate change since 1997, and its something close to my heart and critical to our future," Unger explained. "I wanted to make sure that in flying we're not doing more harm."

Jan '08: Value of U.S. House's Carbon Offsets Is Murky - washingtonpost.com

In November, the Democratic-led House spent about $89,000 on so-called carbon offsets. This purchase was supposed to cancel out greenhouse-gas emissions from House buildings -- including half of the U.S. Capitol -- by triggering an equal reduction in emissions elsewhere.

Some of the money went to farmers in North Dakota, for tilling practices that keep carbon buried in the soil. But some farmers were already doing this, for other reasons, before the House paid a cent.

Other funds went to Iowa, where a power plant had been temporarily rejiggered to burn more cleanly. But that test project had ended more than a year before the money arrived.