Making his way through the flack he received last year for agreeing to travel more than 11,000 kilometres by plane with 20 staff members to accept a Global Environmental Citizen prize, Prince Charles has been living greener and trimmed his household’s carbon emissions significantly, according to an annual review of his accounts (and the CBC, link here).

While the prince has achieved “carbon neutral” status for two years, new initiatives introduced in the last year include:

• Running his luxury cars on used cooking oil.
• Installing wood-chip boilers at his residences.
• Buying foods from local suppliers, according to Charles’s Clarence House office.

Travel abroad accounts for the bulk of his carbon emissions, according to the report. However, he has invested in a carbon offset company — a group that promotes sustainable energy projects as a means of counterbalancing greenhouse gas emissions produced through activity including travelling.