Monthly Archives: March 2008
WWF, the World Wide Fund for Nature, just released a report on standards in the carbon offset industry. The report’s full title is “A Comparison of Carbon Offset Standards - Making Sense of the Voluntary Carbon Market”. You can download the PDF here (3 Mb).
Carbon is often described as the world’s most complex commodity. […]
The Internet makes almost everything easier these days – buying plane tickets, finding your true love, and managing your finances. But tread warily if you go online to reduce your carbon footprint, warns the Scotsman today.
“Carbon offsetting websites are inconsistent and confusing, with costs varying by up to 540 per cent,” says the Scotsman. The […]
Choosing how to offset your carbon dioxide emissions is complicated business. Readers have been asking us: what’s the difference between providers who offset for profit, and those who offset as non-profit organizations?
In our quest to find some answers we spoke with five different prominent non-profit providers from around the world – the United States, […]
March 18, 2008 – 12:46 am
Making our way around the globe, today we speak with Canada’s non-profit carbon offset provider Offsetters.
In previous weeks, we’ve met with Goodplanet/Action Carbone from France who does not see “the offsetting environment as a competition.”
There’s been the non-profit take of the Swiss-based myclimate. They believe climate protection should not be done to “increase your own […]
Large-scale events, cycles and processes can be best grasped through graphs, flow-charts and maps. If you’re resourceful, you can even use software that helps you generate your own.
At Carbon Catalog, we’ve added a feature from Google maps that lets our readers pinpoint the location of the offset project – many of which are in far-flung […]
It’s been 6 months since Carbon Catalog was launched, and 3 months since the first blog post. It’s time to talk about some recent updates to the site as well as future directions.
The most popular page on Carbon Catalog is the list of offset providers. This lets you compare and contrast 74 (and growing!) offset […]
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