carbon neutral is OUP 2006 phrase of the year

The New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2006 is (drum roll please) Carbon Neutral.

Being carbon neutral involves calculating your total climate-damaging carbon emissions, reducing them where possible, and then balancing your remaining emissions, often by purchasing a carbon offset: paying to plant new trees or investing in “green” technologies such as solar and wind power.

Oxford University Press USA blog - Carbon Neutral: Oxford Word of the Year

via DeSmogBlog

This is also a favourite of mine:

elbow bump (a greeting in which two people touch elbows, recommended by the World Health Organization as an alternative to the handshake in order to reduce the spread of germs.)