Last week I met Hadi Dowlatabadi. He’s a professor at UBC and is involved with a couple of green travel websites: Offsetters (for plane travel) and Cool Drive Pass. From the former:
Offsetters gives you a positive choice about climate change. We invest in projects that take greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or stop them from being emitted in the first place. If you make a purchase using the flights calculator above, or buy an Offsetters membership we invest that money in carbon offset projects.
You can find a big list of such companies on David Suzuki’s website.
We’ve got a lot of air travel coming up, and we’re going to start buying carbon credits. Of course it’s not the same as not flying–the greenhouse gasses still get emitted, after all–but it’s a step in the right direction.
They’ve got a little calculator for figuring out how much it’ll cost to get from A to B with less guilt. They’ve got a ton of destinations in the calculator, but no Malta. The closest city seemed to be Rome, and that will cost us CAN $48.96 each.
I’ll spare you the details, but I met Mr. Dowlatabadi in different circles than DeSmogBlog, our climate change client.
DarrenBarefoot.com 
Have you considered taking a ship? A lovely ship with the web at your fingertips might be just thing ticket.
Just a thought. I have no hookup, just fanciful ideas.
Cruise ships produce more carbon emissions than flying. Stick with your current plan.
I thought you might be interested in this new report that is available online
The Carbon Neutral Myth – Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins is available online at:
http://www.tni.org
“Carbon offsets are the modern day indulgences, sold to an increasingly carbon conscious public to absolve their climate sins. Scratch the surface, however, and a disturbing picture emerges, where creative accountancy and elaborate shell games cover up the impossibility of verifying genuine climate change benefits, and where communities in the South often have little choice as offset projects are inflicted on them.
This report argues that offsets place disproportionate emphasis on individual lifestyles and carbon footprints, distracting attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken to tackle climate change. Promoting more effective and empowering approaches involves moving away from the marketing gimmicks, celebrity endorsements, technological quick fixes, and the North/South exploitation that the carbon offsets industry embodies.”