Archive for 2003

After a debut in the mid-1990s TV series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, it took a small role – literally – in three minor films from New Zealand (something about Lords and Rings) before most people recognised 26-year-old Dominic Monaghan as the hobbit Merry Brandybuck. He’s currently spokesman for Future Forests and, like the Baftas and Brits, is totally CarbonNeutral.

What exactly does being CarbonNeutral involve? Basically, they look at your life and how you live it and calculate the amount of carbon they estimate, or I suppose ‘guesstimate’, that you use up in a year. They ask a few questions about how you live your life, what kind of car you drive, where you live, how far you travel, that kind of thing. Then they offset the amount of carbon that you use up by planting trees in certain parts of the world. I’d been to Bangalore in India the year before so I made a request that some be put there, because I’m sure I’ll go back. So I had 40 mango trees planted in a forest that Coldplay are involved in.
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