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Please Help Us Calculate Futuresonic's Carbon Footprint!

Futuresonic is working with Manchester's Tyndall Centre,
one of the world's leading centres for climate change
research, to assess the carbon footprint of the festival.

We need your help!

Please email footprint@futuresonic.com with answers to questions below.

We have an army of people counting the computers used on the festival,
reading the sticky labels on the backs of speaker stacks and the lighting
racks used at venues, finding out from venues what their energy bills are,
asking artists what equipment they used to create their artworks, as well
as what they use in the gigs.

But all this means nothing unless we can also work out how you travel to
the festival.

Unlike some of our artists who are taking a cargo boat from New York, if
you are from another country you may be planning to fly. If you are from
the UK you may be planning to take a train.

Please can you email footprint@futuresonic.com with answers to the
following simple questions:

NAME (OPTIONAL)
ORIGIN (PLACE YOU ARE TRAVELING FROM)
MODE OF TRANSPORT (PLANE, TRAIN, BUS, CAR, BIKE, ETC)
If flying...
DEPARTURE AIRPORT (EG. SCHIPHOL, AMSTERDAM)
DESTINATION AIRPORT (EG. MANCHESTER OR HEATHROW)

Please note: all emails will be stored for use in the study. We will not
respond to individual emails. If you wish to discuss with a member of
the Futuresonic team please email office@futuresonic.com. Thanks.

Click here to learn more about the Environment 2.0 project or click here
to learn about the Environment 2.0 Talks on Saturday 12 May at
Futuresonic 2007.

Offsetting

Go Beyond Carbon Neutral

Future Sonic would love to be able to tell you it's as simple as buying a
carbon offset for your flight. Unfortunately throwing a bit of money at a
carbon offset provider isn't going to solve the problem of carbon emissions
from planes, trains and cars. Mitigating climate change is a difficult
social and political task. It's not going to solved by privatising the issue
and commodifying the problem - buying offset indulgences for our climate
sins. However, there are plenty of worthwhile organisations fighting climate
change that would benefit from a donation.

Use www.atmosfair.de to calculate the carbon emissions from your flight
and get an idea of how much to donate. For calculating flight emissions,
Atmosfair is the best of the bunch - it's a not for profit set up by sustainable
tour operators, 80% of the revenue goes direct to projects - all of which
have the highest level of certification available.

You could donate to Atmosfair, or any of the following:

www.puretrust.org.uk Pure buys emissions reductions credits generated
from certified renewable energy projects.

www.global-cool.com Global Cool primarily invests in renewable energy
projects and music-related, awareness-raising events.

www.palangthai.org Palang Thai is non profit organisation that seeks to
transform the energy sector in Thailand on the basis of sustainability and
social and environmental justice. Palang Thai has succeeded in stopping the
development of two coal-fired power stations in the Mekong Delta. The
organisation also collaborates in the development of community-based
renewable energy projects

www.kensarowiwa.com The Ken Saro Wiwa Foundation campaigns for corporate
responsibility in resource industries and supports projects aimed at
strengthening and reconciling communities now in conflict in the Niger
Delta. After decades of social and political struggle, victory finally came
in 2006 when the Nigerian courts ordered Shell to stop flaring gas, thus
securing an enormous carbon offset for the world

www.theconvergingworld.org/member.html "The Converging World" (TCW) is a UK
charity, established in 2006, that links community and business carbon
reduction projects in the UK with renewable energy and sustainable
development in India, through its partner organisation Social Change And
Development (SCAD). SCAD (www.scadindia.org) is developing wind farms in
Tamil Nadu to fund projects to empower marginalised communities.

www.treesforlife.org.uk Trees for Life is a Scottish charity dedicated to
'restoring the Caledonian forest'.

www.postcarbon.org The Post Carbon Institute, a "think, action and education
tank" which offers research, project tools, education and information on how
to move beyond the fossil fuel economy. The Post Carbon Institute focuses on
strategies of 're-localization' to improve environmental conditions and
social equity