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Green Exchange - New US Carbon Trading Exchange
2007-12-13 05:26:00 Today the New York Mercantile Exchange announced the formation of a new offset exchange, The Green Exchange. The Green Exchange will offer carbon, sulfur and nitrogen offset projects. There are some heavy hitters involved in the formation of this exchange; Evolution Markets Inc., Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc., Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Tudor Investment Corp., ... More About: Trading , Carbon , Carb
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
2007-12-12 21:12:00 The climate talks at Bali have unveiled the Forest Carb on Partnership Facility. The conference is hoping to raise $300 million dollars for this forest, the location remains unclear. There is also no mention if it is going to be a current forest placed under protection or if new trees will be planted This is a 10-year ...
Arizona Power Company Offsetting With Trees For The Future
2007-12-11 20:16:00 The Salt River Project (SRP) an Arizona power company just announced yesterday that they have partnered with Trees For the Future to offer their customers carbon offsets. Each customer can pay as little as $3.00 a month and the SRP will match each customer up to $80,000 a year. For $3.00 a month Trees for the ... More About: Power , Company , The Future
NativeEnergy Offsetting Sierra Club Outings
2007-12-05 18:21:00 The Sierra Club just announced that they have formed a partnership with Native Energy Travel Offsets, a subsidiary of NativeEnergy, to carbon offset their vacations. I saw the press release but I went on Sierra Club Outings’ site and didn’t see any information about it. I was on NativeEnergy’ site and they didn’t have any more information ...
Continental Airlines Offers Offsets
2007-12-04 15:38:00 Continental Airlines , the 5th largest carrier in the US, announced that they are going to start offering carbon offsets. Continental said they are going to start offsetting with Sustainable Travel International. Continental customers when they book their flight Sustainable Travel will calculate their carbon footprint and the flyer will have the option of offsetting their ... More About: Offers , Continental , Conti
Carbonfund.org Offsets 2 Billion Pounds
2007-12-03 20:42:00 Carbonfund.org announced today that they have carbon offset 2 billion pounds of carbon. They report that is enough to take 200,000 cars off the road for 1 year. ... More About: Carbonfund , Carb , Billion
New Carbon Offset Credit Card Not a Good Deal
2007-11-30 04:50:00 Bank of America announced today that they have teamed up with Brighter Planet to starting a new carbon offset credit card. Currently GE and Fintura offer credit cards that provides carbon offsets as rewards. Bank of America’s credit card works like this: $1.oo in retail purchases earns one point 1,000 points offsets one ton of carbon Your first purchase you get 1,000 points You ... More About: Card , Credit , Carbon offset , Carbon , Deal
L.A. Times Reviews Travel Offsets
2007-11-29 18:23:00 The L.A. Times travel section has a quick little article discussing several offset providers and how much it costs to offset travel with them. It turns out Native Energy is the cheapest. You can read that article here ... More About: Reviews , Travel
Prairie Tree Project
2007-11-29 18:14:00 I received an e-mail from from the CEO of Ship Green, commenting this article here. In his e-mail signature he mentions another organization the Prairie Tree Project which is a company plants trees on part of a farm. The site does mention that they plant different types of trees and monitor them for 5 years. Each tree ...
FTC to Examine Carbon Offsets ASAP
2007-11-27 16:18:00 Federal Trade Commission has announced that they will examine companies green claims. The FTC was going to examine these claims in 2009 but they have moved up the date to early 2008. The FTC has announced that they are especially interested in examining carbon offsets to make sure the consumer is getting what they pay ... More About: Carbon , Carb
A Machine That Sucks up Carbon Dioxide
2007-11-26 15:14:00 I read an article in the Arizona Star that talked about Global Research Technology. This company has created a tower that sucks carbon dioxide out of the air and then binds it to a membrane. The article in the Arizona Star features an interview with Global Research Technology’s CEO Gary Wright. This project is being funded by ... More About: Machine , Carbon , Sucks , Mach , Carb
Interview with the CEO of MoveNeutral.com
2007-11-23 20:06:00 I have written lately a lot about a new offset provider MoveNeutral.com, here and here. I had the opportunity to ask the CEO, Charles Wagner, a few questions about this new offset provider. CND: How did you get involved/start a project like this? Charles Wagner: This year I decided to go carbon neutral. I found it was ... More About: Interview
MoveNeutral.com Launches New Site and New Service
2007-11-20 20:20:00 I wrote about the launch of MoveNeutral.com last week, here. I just got an intersting e-mail from the CEO of MoveNeutral.com, Charles Wagner. He let me know that they launched a new site but what he didn’t tell me is that have started a new carbon offset service. The new website is very sleek and very ... More About: Service , Site , New Site
TerraPass Selling More Then Offsets
2007-11-19 19:25:00 Have you been over to the Terra Pass website lately? I just noticed that they are selling merchandise too. They have always sold logo related gear and offsets but now they sell much more. You can buy picture frames, and Amazon books, and energy saving gadgets. The items on the site are very tasteful and are definitely ... More About: Selling , Then
More Companies Growing Plankton
2007-11-15 14:53:00 Ocean Nourishment Corporation (ONC) a for-profit Australian based company wants to grow plankton as a carbon offset project. ONC plans to dump 500 tons of Urea near the Philippines and Borneo in the Sulu Sea this year. ONC also plans to dump 1,000 tons of urea near Malasiya Growing plankton is riddled with tons of problems. Seeding is not proven to ... More About: Companies
Interview with the CEO of ImageTree
2007-11-13 15:29:00 I first covered ImageTree when a press release discussed how they got funding for new technology. You can read that article here. Oh boy did I get some things wrong! Here is an interview with their CEO George Fulton. Who seems to be a very understanding and polite gentlemen when it comes to errors in reporting. CND: ... More About: Interview
Moveneutral.com Launches
2007-11-13 15:03:00 A new player just entered into the carbon offset game. Moveneutral.com announced yesterday that they will start carbon offsetting your car. They enter a pretty crowded field of offset providers, that specialize in offsetting cars. They don’t offer a calculator but offer three different levels of carbon offsets. $41 for a small car, $65 for a medium ...
More Accurate Carbon Neutral Shipping
2007-11-11 16:03:00 There are several companies that offer green shipping but shipgreen.net claims to be the most accurate in calculating the true carbon impact of shipping items. Shipgreen.net is only available to the shipper, not the consumer that wants to offset their shipping. Ship Green proclaims on their website that they offer the shipper several offset projects to choose ... More About: Carbon , Shipping , Carb
Fiji Water Carbon Neutral
2007-11-10 22:29:00 Fiji Water announces that in 2008 the will be carbon neutral with the help of Conservation International. Their first step will be to reduce their carbon footprint (always a good first step). They plan on making the following reductions: 25% reduction in CO2 emissions 50% of energy used in the production process to come from renewable sources 20% reduction ... More About: Carbon , Fiji , Carb
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Report
2007-11-09 05:26:00 HillHeat.com has transcripts of the Senate Commerce , Science , and Transportation Committee meeting that discusses different carbon sequestration technology. The discussion was centered around coal power carbon production, and after production technology to sequester the carbon. Here are some of the influential people that testified: Dr. Howard Herzog, Principal Research Engineer, MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment Mr. Charles E. ... More About: Report
Planktos Launches
2007-11-09 05:12:00 As reported by The New York Times, Planktos launched their ship, WeatherBird II. The WatherBird is a 115 wide “research” vessel that plans on dumping iron ore near the Galapagos islands to encourage plankton to grow. The plankton will use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, Planktos then wants to sell this this as a carbon ...
Interview with Eco-Libris
2007-11-07 00:48:00 I did an interview with the CEO of Eco-Libris Raz Godelnik a few months ago. Eco-Libris balances out your books by planting trees. You can read the interview here. Womenonwriting.org did another interview with Raz and you can read that here. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fcarbonneutraldigest.com%2F% 3Fp%3D145'; addthis_title = 'Interview +with+Eco-Libris'; addthis_pub ...
Yahoo Announced Offset Projects
2007-11-05 17:46:00 Yahoo announced several months ago that they plan on being carbon neutral. I guess competition for most green is heating up with Google, who is also going to be carbon neutral. Yahoo recently announced what projects they are going to use to offset their carbon footprint. Yahoo is going to offset 250,000 metric ton carbon footprint ... More About: Projects , Yahoo , Offset , Yahoo! , Anno
Forest Fires Produce Carbon
2007-11-01 15:21:00 Associated Press had a fantastic article about forest fires as producers of carbon. This has always been one of my issues with trees as carbon offset projects. The fire in California from October 19-26 produced 8.7 million tons of carbon. That is more carbon then Vermont releases in a year. The country on average produces 332 million ... More About: Carbon , Fires , Forest , Produce , Carb
ImageTree to study forest carbon absorption
2007-11-01 15:02:00 ImageTree announced that it received 4.5 million dollars from Battelle Ventures to study actually how much carbon is absorbed by forests. The money would be used to place censors in the forest to study the carbon use. More precise measurements of carbon sequestration is key if you want to use trees as an offset project. ... More About: Study , Carbon , Forest , Carb , Absorption
AIG Offsetting 310,000 tons of Carbon
2007-10-31 20:47:00 AIG has announced that they are going to offset 310,000 metric tons of carbon, which is about half of the multi-national corporations 1 year carbon production. AIG has teamed up with Environmental Defense to offset this carbon. Environmental Defense is using a rather odd offset project. In the Xinjiang and Sichuan provinces of China “the ... More About: Carbon , Carb
Alamo, Enterprise and National Car rental Carbon Neutral
2007-10-31 00:47:00 The Taylor Family the owners of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car announced possibly the largest carbon offset program. For $1.25 you can offset the carbon footprint from your car rental through TerraPass, from any of the Taylor Family’s companies. They will match you dollar for dollar up to the first ... More About: Carbon , Carb
Investing in Alternative Energy Sources Doesn?t Stop Carbon Production
2007-10-30 17:07:00 I read a lot of newspaper articles, journals, blogs, etc each day and to come up with good postings for this site. I seem to post about 2 times a week, so that means I read a lot and most of it isn’t very good. I read this article today in the the Coloradoanwhere the President ... More About: Energy , Alternative , Investing , Carbon , Alternative Energy
Carbon Neutral Greeting Cards
2007-10-26 12:30:00 There is this very interesting company that offers carbon neutral greeting cards, carbonfreecards.com. The cards feature pictures of dear, birds, and nature scenes. They have partnered with Trees For the Future to plant one tree for every card they make on top of offsetting the carbon produced in the production of the cards. They are ... More About: Carbon , Cards , Greeting Cards , Greeting , Carb
Carbon Offset Arboretum
More articles from this author:2007-10-22 18:51:00 On the Carb on Ninja you can read a press release dated October 21, 2007 talking about their latest project. They announced that they have just secured 1.2 million acres of land in Michigan to use as a carbon offset arboretum. The land was cleared 70 years ago to farm for onions and beets. Most of ... More About: Carbon offset , Offset 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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