id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-3173 Truitt, Marc Editorial: ALA and Our Carbon Footprint 2009-06-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1526 69 60 I’ve been reflecting (stewing?) for some time now about the question of ALA conferences: Why do I attend, and what do I get from these gatherings? I used the Carbon Footprint Calculator at www .carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx (accessed Feb. 5, 2009) to compute the CO2 footprint in metric tons for one round-trip flight between Denver and each of the following cities: Atlanta (.40), Boston (.58), Chicago (.30), Dallas (.22), Houston (.29), Los Angeles (.27), Miami (.57), Minneapolis (.23), New York–JFK (.54), Philadelphia (.52), Phoenix (.19), Pittsburgh (.43), Salt Lake City (.23), San Diego (.27), San Francisco (.31), Seattle (.34), and Washington, D.C. (.49). cache/ital-3173.pdf txt/ital-3173.txt