Isra-Mart srl : Pay to offset your carbon footprints this Earth Day

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So you want to be green, but have already installed energy-efficient light bulbs and are biking to work as often as possible. Now what?

Well, Colorado residents looking to make the state more environmentally friendly can offset their annual carbon emissions the week of Earth Day — April 18-24 — by going online.

Using a virtual calculator created by the Colorado Carbon Fund, people can tabulate their carbon footprint by plugging in estimates of their annual household, air and automobile energy consumption.

People and businesses can leave behind carbon footprints, which are estimates of how much carbon dioxide is produced to support a particular lifestyle.

And while some aspects of a carbon footprint are uncontrollable — it’s sometimes necessary that someone fly cross-country or drive to a doctor’s appointment — Colorado Carbon Fund’s Program Manager Hillary Dobos said her organization’s Earth Day campaign can help people pay to lessen the impact of those steps.

For each metric ton of carbon dioxide a person produces annually, the Colorado Carbon Fund, an arm of the state Governor’s Energy Office, recommends that $20 be donated. This money goes back to the fund that in turn heads up green projects across the state.

In October 2010, Arvada’s Apex Park and Recreation District started use of a solar thermal energy collection system atop its 168,500-square-foot recreation center on 72nd Avenue.

Warmed previously by natural gas, the recreation center will see a 30 percent reduction in its annual heating costs, Mike Miles, executive director of Apex Park and Recreation District, said in a press release.