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Carbon neutral is when our actions don't increase the net carbon in the atmosphere. It involves calculating your total climate-damaging carbon emissions, reducing them where possible, and then balancing your remaining emissions by purchasing green tags: paying to plant new trees or investing in “green” technologies such as solar, wind, or biomass power.
The popularity of carbon neutral shows the growing importance of the green movement in the US. A New York Times Poll in 2006, showed 66% of respondents agreed that global warming is a problem causing a serious impact now. A movement is rapidly growing around the carbon neutral position.
Eric Bean, editor in chief of the New Oxford American Dictionary, said “The increasing use of the word carbon neutral reflects not just the greening of our culture, but the greening of our language. When you see first graders trying to make their classrooms carbon neutral, you know the word has become mainstream.”
“All the Oxford lexicographers look forward to choosing the Word of the Year. We know that people love fun, flashy words like truthiness or the latest Bushism, but we are always looking for a word that is both reflective of the events and concerns of the past year and also forward-looking: a word that we think will only become more used and more useful as time goes on.”
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