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Re:BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions o... by panarky on Sunday February 15, 2015 @11:12AM (#9052974)
> ~1602 kg of CO2 by May 1st 2015

You'd have to plant 1.6 trees every year, in perpetuity and keep all of them alive for a century.

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Re:BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions o... by andrewdietrich on Sunday February 15, 2015 @12:56PM (#9053345)
I think this calls for a planting trees as a service company. Ideally delivered via drones. Talk about efficiently planting the trees needed ;)
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Re:BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions o... by draugadrotten on Sunday February 15, 2015 @03:10PM (#9053878)
There is such a company: Viskogen or viagroforestry (sounds like spam doesn't it) They plants-trees-as-a-service. In 2013, 4,118,064 trees were planted

http://www.viagroforestry.org/what-we-do/agroforestry/

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