Photo: New Weapon Against Warming: "Flatulence Cards" Offset Dog, Human Emissions

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Customers of Sydney-based Easy Being Green can offset a year's worth of carbon emissions linked to their dogs, from trips to the vet to flatulence, by buying pet carbon credits. The credits are then sold on the open market, and the funds are used to distribute energy-efficient products like fluorescent light bulbs and low-flow shower heads.

Photograph by James L. Stanfield/NGS

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