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Cri De Coeur shoes carbon offsetting
2007-10-16 14:18:00 Cri De Coeur shoes has just announced a major green initiative. They are going to start offsetting their carbon production with carbonfund.org. There is no mention of what carbon offset project they will be using. There is also no mention if they are going to offset the shoe production (which is often subcontracted out) or just the ... More About: Shoes , Carbon , Carbonfund , Carb
Greenback Search partners with Carbonfund.org
2007-10-13 22:06:00 Greenbacksearch.com is one of many many sites that let you search the internet while offsetting carbon with carbonfund.org. The website actually has some nice but interesting features: There is a running total of how many searches you performed and how much carbon you have offset. Each search offsets 3 pounds of carbon. You can invite people to be ... More About: Search , Partners , Carbonfund , Carb
Brazil selling carbon offsets
2007-10-09 02:52:00 Brazil just sold a landmark 808,450 metric tonnes of carbon offsets for $18.5 million, or $22.90 per ton, to Fortis Bank. They set up a methane capture at Bandeirantes Landfill. The Brazilians sold the offsets at their new exchange called Sao Paulo. Fortis Bank was one of 13 banks bidding on the carbon offsets. Fortis got ... More About: Selling , Brazil , Carbon , Carb
Planktos gets trounced by Miami Herald
2007-10-09 00:32:00 The Miami Herald article discusses the basics of Planktos. They want to dump 100 tons iron dust into the ocean off the galapagos islands to make the plankton grow. Plankton needs carbon dioxide to grow, Planktos plans on selling this as an carbon offset project to its investors. Planktos has a their boat the Thunderbird II ... More About: Miami Herald
US one step closer to Cap-and-Trade
2007-10-04 22:01:00 The Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality have issued a White Paper on the scope of cap-and-trade system. So basically there has been a release of a paper calling for the US to start a cap-and-trade system for monitoring carbon. A cap-and-trade system is what Europe runs, a ... More About: Trade , Step , Closer
European price of carbon falls apart
2007-10-04 01:27:00 I don’t usually follow the price of European Carb on but this got my attention. According to Carbonara the price of carbon is approximately 0.04 per Euro, 1 Euro will buy you 25 tonnes. 1 Euro is approximately 1.4 dollars. There are some serious concerns if the European offset market falls apart. Since there market is mandatory what ... More About: Price , Falls
Interview with the CEO of Choose Renewables
2007-10-04 00:54:00 Choose Rene wables is a new site that launched a few weeks ago. What makes it interesting is that it offers carbon offsets and some merchandise that helps you reduce your carbon footprint or at least be more aware of it. I had some conversations with him and like most of the people in this industry he ... More About: Interview , Choose
Terra Pass wants to know about you
2007-10-03 03:05:00 Those crazy guys at Terra Pass want to know more about their customers. They first sent out a survey that showed how green their carbon offset customers really are. Now they have a new plea “Please write us at happy@terrapass.com and tell us: when did you become aware of climate change? How did you discover TerraPass? What ...
2008 Super Bowl Carbon Neutral
2007-10-01 23:14:00 The 2008 Super Bowl seems pretty far away but plans are in the works right now to make it carbon neutral. The 2008 Super Bowl will be held in University of Phoenix stadium. There are plans to plant more then 30 acres of trees in Arizona to carbon offset the game. The NFL reports that ... More About: Carbon
Field Museum in Chicago offering offsets to visitors
2007-09-28 17:12:00 The Field Museum in Chicago will start launch the “Take 1 Step” initiative on October 2nd. Patrons of the museum can pay and extra dollar to offset the carbon it took them to get to the museum. The dollar goes to purchase offsets from the Chicago Climate Exchange and the museam’s conservation projects in Andean foothills, ... More About: Visitors
Carbon Neutral Casino
2007-09-27 18:57:00 The 175,000 square foot Diamond Jo Casino in Port Dubuque, Arizona may be the first carbon neutrally constructed casino in the world. The project is being built under Clean Air Conservancy’s NetZero Program. The Conservancy will purchase green house gas reductions from the Chicago Climate Exchange to offset the carbon production. There is no mention of how ... More About: Carbon , Carb
Audubon Society HATES tree planting, so should you
2007-09-27 02:14:00 The very lengthy article discussion about several issues about planting trees as carbon offsets. The article discusses the history of tree planting as a carbon offset project. The offset industry began in 1989 with nonnative pines and eucalyptuses planted in Guatemala as ?mitigation? for carbon from a 183-megawatt coal-fired power plant built in Connecticut by Applied Energy Services. ... More About: Society , Tree , Planting
Interview with Jeffrey Olsen from American Forest
2007-09-27 01:41:00 I had the opportunity to speak with Jeffrey Olsen from American Forest . Jeffrey T. Olson joined in July of 2003 as Vice President for Marketing and Development. His responsibilities include fundraising and program development for the organization. Olson has a degree in forest management and has worked in research, the forest products industry, and in environmental organizations. He ... More About: Interview
Bessemer Venture Partners to offset carbon
2007-09-26 02:30:00 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) announced a major green initiative. BVP will start purchasing direct carbon offset credits for 2007 and from then on. BVP wants to reduce it’s carbon footprint by 25% by 2013. The firm currently produces 728 tons of carbon per year. BVP will also strongly encourage its portfolio of 100+ companies to reduce their ... More About: Carbon , Offset , Carb
Paul Mitchell offsetting Carbon
2007-09-22 16:09:00 Paul Mitchell will now make the Tea Tree product line carbon neutral. Paul Mitchell was one of the first companies not to test their products on animals now has taken the next logical step in offsetting carbon. Paul Mitchel will offset carbon through American Forests. American Forests plants trees in the continental US and only offsets ... More About: Carbon , Paul , Carb
Catch a carbon neutral play
2007-09-22 15:50:00 If your in Summerside, Canada from July you can watch a carbon neutral musical at the The Harbour Front Jubilee Theater called Anne & Gilbert. The producer has purchased carbon offsets to balance out the energy production of the play. The play is based on is a love story based on Lucy Maud Montgomery?s popular Anne ... More About: Play , Carbon , Catch , Carb
PG & E Customers offset carbon
2007-09-20 19:00:00 Laura Wayburn of Pacific Forest Trust was recently interviewed for a TV show called OnPoint. The topic that was discussed was Pacific Gas & Electric customers can now offset their carbon with Pacific Forest Trust. P G & E will be specifically picking they projects that the money is invested in, no projects have been picked ... More About: Customers , Carbon , Offset , Carb
Carbon offsetting is beneficial to the environment
2007-09-19 14:54:00 This is a post I orginally wrote for ecostreet, I am reposting it here too. One of the major issues, or myths, surrounding carbon offsets is that it allows people and companies to pollute and then, just for a few dollars, ?balance it out.? My take on this conundrum is that it doesn?t matter if this belief ... More About: Environment , Carbon , The Environment , Envi , Carb
Carbon Offset Providers Coalition
2007-09-18 18:58:00 There was a very short blurb about the Carbon Offset Providers Coalition (COPC) in TheHill.com. It seems that the COPC is a trade goup that started in 2007 to lobby members of federal, state and local governments. According to their website they want to lobby elected officials to “ensure that evolving GHG regulatory regimes in the United ... More About: Carbon offset , Ovid
Vatican offset project explained
2007-09-17 18:12:00 The New York Times just wrote an interesting article explaining the Vatican ’s carbon offset strategy. There has been a lot of buzz on the web discussing how wrong it is for the Vatican to offset but there has been little discussion about the actual plan. A Hungarian company called Klimafa would plant trees on a 37 ... More About: Project , Offset , Laine
not all offset projects are equal, ask ebay
2007-09-15 01:26:00 If you have read this site you know that all carbon offset projects are not created equally and that there are some providers who might not be on the up and up. EBay might not be the best place to buy your carbon offsets from. To check out this item on eBay go to eBay and search ... More About: Projects , Ebay , Equal , Offset
Interview with the Facilitator of CDM Bazaar
2007-09-12 15:59:00 I first wrote about the CDM Bazaar here, the idea is that this site is a way for people who want to carbon offset to find offset project and not go through a middle man. This is a huge paradigm shift in the offset industry and should be watched very closely. The project is managed by Adrian Lema, an ... More About: Interview
Business as UNusual balanced by Eco-Libris
2007-09-11 20:08:00 Net Impacted release there second annual guide to business schools called Business Unusual. The guide is written by students at 56 schools different business schools. This guide is the first to focus on MBA and other graduate students’ perspectives on social and environmental themes in curricula, career service, and the perspective of other students at business ... More About: Balan , Sine
Native Energy Explains the LA Times article
2007-09-10 22:13:00 I received a very interesting comment from an executive at Native Energy regarding my discussion of the L.A. Times article that lambasted Native Energy. Yesterday she e-mailed me a link to a PDF letter from the dairy farmer. The farmer (David Van Guilder) said that the reporter put words in his mouth. He said that he received money from ... More About: Article , Artic
Interview with the CEO of Planktos
2007-09-10 19:27:00 EcoShock an environmental radio show conducted an interview with the CEO of Planktos, Russ George. I must tell you it was very compelling radio. I knew that Planktos is working on dumping iron as a carbon offset project. I had no idea that Planktos was involved in tree planting as an offset project for years ... More About: Interview
NW Natural offer methane capture
2007-09-08 20:35:00 NW Natur al an Oregon based electricity provider will soon offer a new carbon offset program to their customers. NW Natura l is going to start offering to their customers to purchase power from biogas generated from cow manure. As cow manure breaks down methane is released into the environment. Methane is 10 times more powerful greenhouse gas then carbon. Oregon ... More About: Capture , Ethan
Skip the middle man buy your offsets directly
2007-09-08 18:54:00 I just found the most interesting site, www.cdmbazaar.net. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has set up this website as a direct link between the organizations actually doing the offsetting and the consumer. The website is almost like eBay for carbon offsets. It seems that the site started only a few months ago on ... More About: Middle , Dire , Rect
NW Natural offer methane capture
2007-09-06 17:53:00 NW Natur al an Oregon based electricity provider will soon offer a new carbon offset program to their customers. NW Natura l is going to start offering to their customers to purchase power from biogas generated from cow manure. As cow manure breaks down methane is released into the environment. Methane is 10 times more powerful greenhouse gas then carbon. Oregon ... More About: Capture , Ethan
Interview with Dan Tefft CEO of Treebanking INC
2007-09-05 16:08:00 I had the opportunity to speak with the Dan Tefft CEO of Treebanking, INC. We discussed his very interesting teek tree planting carbon offsetting program Dan started TreeBanking, Inc. in February 2007 after working in the capital market for commodities and real estate investment business for 2 years. Prior to this Dan worked with and creating high ... More About: Interview
Carbon Neutral the next thing to look for on the food label
More articles from this author:2007-09-04 20:25:00 Tropical Traders Specialty Food s has announced a deal with Carbon fund.org to make one their food lines carbon neutral. In the deal with Carbonfund .org Tropical Traders will make The Royal Hawaiian Honey Line of honey, an organic honey from Hawaii, carbon neutral. The honey label will now have CarbonFree on it, right next to organic. This will ... More About: Label , Thing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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