Planning to fly off to where the sun shines – and feeling carbon-guilty? Well, good! Here are a few websites that can help you offset the impact of that flight in a real-world way. Check out www.carbonneutral.com/cncalculators/flightcalculate.asp – a good site for calculating the carbon emissions of the flight you're planning to take. Plus you can purchase the required carbon credits at this site, or go to www.self.org.

And on another tack – consider other modes of travel. Trains pollute about 75% less than planes. And here’s a thought – how about ‘vacation-pooling’ as an offshoot of ‘car-pooling’? Other ideas out there, oh fellow wannabe winter escapees? Let’s get the conversation going!