Say what you will about carbon offsets, this cartoon by TerraPass is hysterical.

I know it may be environmental heresy, but I’m a huge fan of offsets. I’m also a huge fan of my home state, Colorado, which is why I buy all my offsets through the Colorado Carbon Fund. I also enrolled in NStar Green to get all my energy from renewable sources, but it was a total hassle—those guys don’t make it easy to love the planet.

Some heartbreaking images of seabirds caught in BP’s oil slick on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island by AP Photographer Charlie Riedel: Caught in the Oil