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EnerPool Carbon Offsets
2008-02-08 14:42:00 Thanks to the magic of Google, I just found a very interesting carbon offset provider, EnerPool Carbon Offsets. There carbon offset project is not the traditional tree planting, or wind turbine, their project is insulation and instant hot water heater. EnerPool charges $2.00 a ton for their offset, which is more then half of most of ...
The State of Colorado the Latest Offset Provider
2008-02-07 18:30:00 The State of Colorado is dipping its toes into the carbon offset provider pool. The official website lists Spring 2008 at the start of the official launch of there carbon offset services. From the website: The Colorado Carbon Fund, a voluntary carbon offset program, is being established by the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) to advance the following ... More About: Politics , Offset , Provider
Vote on TerraPass Projects
2008-02-06 16:33:00 TerraPass is letting us vote on which projects they will invest in. There are five different projects to choose from (from the TerraPass blog); Scenic View Dairy I- Fennville, MI Scenic View Dairy I (Fennville) is the first digester project in the state of Michigan and the first digester project in the US to generate both electricity ... More About: Projects , Vote , Terra
Clear Carbon Consulting Looking for GHG Analyst
2008-02-03 19:17:00 Are you involved in the carbon offset industry? Looking for a job? Clear Carbon Consulting is looking for a GHG analyist. Senior Greenhouse Gas Analyst . This position requires three to five years of direct working experience in energy and/or GHG issues. Experience can be from consulting, corporate, government, or non-profit positions. Preference for candidates with a strong ...
Interview With Gigeon Greenspan, Carbon Catalog
2008-02-01 21:52:00 Gideon Greenspan writes one of the most amazing sites and blogs that I have seen, Carbon Catalog . On that site he has a map of basically all the carbon offset providers in the world and all most all the carbon offset projects in the world. Some of the topics on the blog part of the site ... More About: Interview
General Accounting Office Looking into Carbon Offsets
2008-01-31 23:01:00 There is definately a move in congress to examine the issue of carbon offsets. The FTC has just finished it’s comment period for carbon offset standards. Several states even submitted comments to the FTC, read more here. The House purchased offsets to balance out their power consumption. The Washington Post wrote about a rather detailed story ... More About: Office , General , Carbon , Accounting
Shipgreen.net starts regular blog posts
2008-01-30 20:37:00 I received an e-mail from their CEO, Jason Sperling, that they are going to start regular blogging on the site. Mr. Sperling told me that they are going to use their marketing budget on a professional blogger. As a blogger this is an interesting angle and I love to hear about fellow bloggers getting jobs. ... More About: Blog , Regular , Posts
Checking in on EcoLibris
2008-01-30 16:26:00 I interviewed the CEO of EcoLibris back in August. When I was talking with him it felt like it was just the beginning of his organization. So I checked out his website, they balanced out 12,000 books resulting in 15,000 trees being planted. He has three different planting partners and been featured on MANY MANY ...
Washington Post exposes Senate Offsets
2008-01-28 19:33:00 A few months ago the House spent $89,000 to offset the carbon production of the House. The Washington Post wrote a rather scathing article about how the offsets had many flaws. All of the offsets were purchased through the Chicago Climate Exchange. The projects that generated the purchased offsets were; no till farming and power plant efficiencies. The Washington ... More About: Washington Post , Senate
Company Not Dumping Iron as an Offset Project
2008-01-28 14:10:00 Did anyone else realize that Planktos has fallen apart? I first learned of this from reading an article in the Vancouver Sun about Planktos hitting some real issues and not dumping iron into the ocean. Last summer I talked about Planktos launching their ship, the Weatherbird II, and I haven’t heard anything else. When the ship ... More About: Company , Project , Offset , Iron
Now the States want the FTC to Regulate Carbon Offsets
2008-01-26 22:04:00 The FTC is currently taking comments on how to regulate the carbon offset market. The attorney general of California, Vermont, Arkansas, Delaware, Maine, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Illinois, Connecticut and New Hampshire all sent a letter to the FTC outlining how they want to see the carbon offset market reformed. The attorney generals recommended the following measures: Conduct research ... More About: Carbon , States
Consumer Reports Evaluates Air Flight Carbon Calculators
2008-01-23 14:18:00 Consumer Reports looked at 11 different carbon offset flight calculators from all the major carbon offset providers. Consumer Reports calculated the carbon production on a flight from New York to Los Angeles. There were some WIDE variation on the amount of carbon produced. The lowest was Terra Pass saying 1,924 pounds of carbon was created. The highest ... More About: Consumer , Carbon , Consumer Reports , Calculators
Denver International Airport Looking for Carbon Offset Partners
2008-01-22 21:14:00 Denver International Airport (DIA) is looking for a carbon offset provider. DIA is soliciting proposals for a 3 year non-exclusive contract for an organization to offer carbon offsets to passengers throughout the 3 concourses. In the proposal DIA is looking to see how the provider calculates the amount of carbon generated by the flights. DIA is ... More About: Carbon offset , Carbon , Partners
Non-profit vs. For-profit Providers
2008-01-19 21:22:00 The carbon catablog put the question, does it matter if your carbon offset provider is non-profit or for-profit to Carbonfund.org blogger Russell Simon. This is actually a question I have asked many of the interviews that I have done with offset providers and companies that have purchased offsets. Most people don’t have a really good opinion on ... More About: Profit , Non-Profit
Carbonfund.org revamps their blog
2008-01-18 15:41:00 Carbonfund.org just announced that they have revamped their blog. They have made a great deal of improvements despite using blogspot. They have a very minimal layout so it is not distracting and they brought on two new bloggers Russell Simon and William Bert, it seems that the last blogger Erika Leung is no longer with ... More About: Blog , Carbonfund
Brighterplanet.com a ?Killer Start Up?
2008-01-15 04:23:00 Brighter Planet is featured on killerstartup.com. They give a brief history of the company. I had no idea that that it was started by two 19 year old from Middlebury College. This is why Killer Start Up things that Brighter Planet is killer: “Brighter Planet offers an attainable, effective, and innovative way to do something for the environment. ... More About: Start-Up
Cynthia McKinney Carbon Neutral President
2008-01-12 19:32:00 Did you think Hillary was the only female running for president? Well I did! Apparently Cynthia McKinney on The Power to the People party is running for president too. She was a six term member of Congress from Georgia. This major candidate is now carbon offsetting her campaigns carbon production through NativeEnergy. Her website extols her ... More About: Politics , President , Carbon
Green House Gas Management Institute Is Looking for Summer Intern
2008-01-11 14:47:00 Are you looking to get involved in carbon offset industry? The Green House Gas Management Institute is looking for summer interns. You might get paid but you get to work from home. ********* 2008 Summer Intern ship Program Greenhouse Gas Management Institute is seeking an intern to work on a variety of projects related to building the Institute?s organizational ...
New York Times Writes Another One About the Carbon Offset Industry
2008-01-09 15:54:00 New York Times reporter Louise Story wrote an article about the FTC holding new hearings into carbon offsetting. I wrote about the FTC examining offsets here and here. In the article she gives a general round up of what companies are offsetting and who they are offsetting with. Here is the interesting part. The article discusses Delta ... More About: New York , Industry , Carbon offset , Carbon
Interview with the One Million Revolutions
2008-01-07 15:27:00 One Million Revolutions is a race organizer; they provide a online support to marathons, triathlons, etc. Before you run your next marathon you can go to the site and see a map of the course. The site also provides you a way to register for races too. So you thinking biking, running and swimming are low ... More About: Interview
Super Bowl Sort Of Carbon Neutral
2008-01-04 16:34:00 A few months ago I wrote here about how the Super Bowl was going to be carbon neutral. The NFL has taken some heat for saying the that the Super Bowl 2007 was carbon neutral. This year the Super Bowl not be billed as carbon neutral, however they will be planting trees in Arizona on land that ... More About: Carbon , Sort
TerraPass Year Rap Up
2008-01-02 22:01:00 TerraPass just posted a wrap up of the events of 2007 and a few things got my attention: Sold more then 100,000 TerraPasses total Increased there staff from 5 to 16 Offset 800 million pounds of carbon They did mention a few things that I already talked about: The opening of their merchandise store (here) Partnering with Enterprise Rent-a-car (here) Read a ... More About: Terra , Year
Interview with the CEO of Shipgreen.net
2008-01-02 18:30:00 I had an opportunity to have a brief exchange with Jason Sperling, the CEO of Shipgreen.net and the Prairie Tree Project. I have previously written about the launch of Shipgreen.net here. Here is a little from his bio page at shipgreen.net: Jason brings an expertise in interactive marketing along with the experience of working with groups interested in ... More About: Interview
Limo Company Offsetting
2007-12-27 18:30:00 Valera Global, a Long Island based, limousine company is carbon offsetting their carbon production through the Chicago Climate Exchange. Valera looked at getting hybrid limousines and they said that the hybrids wouldn’t work for them. There are no hybrid SUV limos and the prius does not have enough leg room. The CEO also mentioned that most ... More About: Company , Limo
Presidential Offsetting
2007-12-25 21:04:00 Mother Jones wrote this really great article discussing how each of the presidential candidates offset their carbon footprint. The article discusses all of the candidates; democratic and republican, major and hopeful. It is interesting to see how most of the democratic presidential candidates are doing a log of offsetting, while the republicans are barely doing ... More About: Presidential
Chicago Climate Exchange Volume Doubles
2007-12-25 20:34:00 The Chicago Climate Exchange trading volume of carbon offsets has doubled from 2006. In 2007 the trading volume is 20,922,300 tons and in 2006 the volume was 10,272,400. November was the 3rd busiest month in the history of the exchange with over 10,000,000 tons traded. ... More About: Volume , Chicago Climate Exchange
Amtrak Offsetting With Carbonfund.org
2007-12-18 15:47:00 Amtrak today announced a deal with Carb onfund .org to offer carbon offsetting to all ticket purchasers. When you go to Amtrak’s website there is a link to the carbonfund.org site that allows you buy carbon offsets for their train ride Currently they are only offering two choices for offsets. $3.00 to offset a 2,500 mile trip which ...
AAA of Utah, Nevada and Northern California Offsetting
2007-12-18 15:11:00 AAA of Utah , Nevada and Northern California have announced that they will start carbon offsetting their corporate fleet with Terra Pass . There was no mention of what specific projects AAA was going to invest in. There was also no mention of how many tons of carbon they were going to offset. Read more about TerraPass here ...
Vermont To Offer Forests as Offset Projects
2007-12-18 15:01:00 Peter Hirshfield wrote a very interesting article in the Ruthland Herald. It seems that the Governor of Vermont , Jim Douglas, had the Commission on Climate Change formed. The Commission release a 51 page report that called for the forests of Vermont to be used as a carbon offset project. The report also recommended selling the project ... More About: Projects , Offset , Forests , Offer
Itsmymarket.com Doesn?t Get Carbon Offsetting
More articles from this author:2007-12-14 03:00:00 UK based itsmymarket.com announced today that they offer carbon neutral shipping. How do they offset their shipping? Glad you asked, they planted 5 trees in the town where they are located. Tree planting as a carbon offset project is a bad idea but this takes the cake? Are they guaranteeing the tree will live for 99 ... More About: Carbon , Carb 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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