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Carbon Offsets: From The Archives
Dig deeper into these articles on carbon offsets from the TreeHugger and Planet Green archives.
Finding and using carbon offsets
"Carbon offsets" and "carbon-neutral" are phrases you'll hear getting tossed around a lot these days; be sure to find an offset company you can trust.
Read up on Future Forests, before they had a name change.
Ecobusinesslinks has completed a comprehensive comparison of the nonprofit and for profit organizations providing carbon offsets.
American Electric Power Co. will buy 4.6 million carbon credits between 2010 and 2017 to support the first large-scale livestock methane offset program in the United States. "The project will capture and destroy methane from approximately 400,000 head of livestock on as many as 200 farms."
London Rising Tide, a group of climate change activists, occupied the head offices of a leading UK offset providers, claiming a ‘Carbon Neutral Con’.
New Internationalist magazine puts carbon offsets under the spot light.
The Great Canadian Carbon Offset set out to raise the profile of carbon-offset programs for air travelers, and to shine a light on patterns of excessive consumption.
The UK’s CarbonNeutral warned that the already controversial carbon offset industry is at risk of being discredited by ‘cowboy’ operators.
Built on Guilt. Are carbon offsets similar to the indulgences of the 15th and 16th centuries, where the Dutch literally paid for their sins?
Companies and organizations using carbon offsets
Organic Bouquet delivers carbon neutral flowers.
Personal Carbon Credit Swipe Cards proposed for British citizens by environment minister, David Miliband.
Google teams up with °Climate Group for carbon offsets.
Berkeley's Greek Theatre goes carbon neutral.
The One Ton CO2 Project sells organic T’s to help buy regional carbon offsets. They also suggest combining simple things like eating meat-free meals every other day, parking the car for 60 days this year and walking, cycling, or taking public transit instead and switching from hot to warm or cold water for every load of laundry will also collectively save a ton (literally) of CO2.
Ford announced that it has joined with TerraPass to educate car buyers about the option of offsetting their greenhouse emissions by investing in renewables.
Spanish Postal Service start planting trees with Bosques de la Tierra, with euro cent, in each euro spent on one sell ‘green’ envelopes and boxes made from recycled paper and cardboard.
Syriana the geopolitical oil flick starring George Clooney, (for which he won an Academy Award) announced that the film has gone "climate neutral."
The organizers of the Turin Olympic Winter Games tried to offset carbon dioxide emissions and save water and energy use during the 16-day event and the European Union praised them for their eco-friendly initiatives.
Carbonfund’s Carbon Calculator uses information from the US Department of Energy's Energy Information Agency, academic, and non-governmental organizations to assess carbon dioxide emissions.
Rather than providing users with a price to pay for offsets, Bello Mundo's "comparator", from Sustainable Travel International, shows how travelers can offset those carbon emissions by adjusting activities in their daily lives.
Take a peek at College of the Atlantic:, first carbon neutral US college.
"Sweet Land" is the latest carbon neutral movie production.
TerraPass and Expedia Partner to sell flight offsets.
Carbonfund introduces carbon free shipping for internet shopping.
TreeHugger looks into the carbon offset project at the Tontitown Landfill.
New Zealand firm Celsias bills itself as "...the world's first online community that allows regions, businesses or community groups to be paid for reducing the carbon emissions from their everyday energy use..."
Greenest Village in Britain? Chew Magna goes for zero carbon and has already taken on a broad range of projects, from restoring an old water mill to arranging talks on micro-generation or homemade biofuels.
The real story on carbon offsets
My Views on Carbon Offsets: TreeHugger Editor, Michael Graham Richard weighs in.
Carbon offsetting helps American native people, creating jobs and restoring their lands by planting trees as carbon offsets. But its not without its problems.
Designing away the problems of offsetting, a guest posting by Zerofootprint.
Eco-lifestyle company, Gaiam, announced that they have partnered with The Conservation Fund to launch the world’s first sustainable shipping program.
Carbon Planet: a transparent carbon offsetter?
TreeHugger Picks: Carbon-Neutral Everything
Orlando Bloom launches Global Cool.
GreenFleet calculate that your car produces 4.3 tonnes of greenhouse gas annually and plant 17 trees to compensate.
When we first found Terrapass, investing in energy reduction programs within industry and assisting in the establishment of renewable energy plants, like windpower.
We acknowledge Joy of Tech’s classic cartoon on the issue.
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