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Monthly Archives: April 2008

To Profit, Part 3: Belgium’s CLIMACT

(A Few Good Men: CLIMACT’s Pascal Vermeulen, Dimitri Mertens and Hugues de Meulemeester)
Carbon Catalog’s been globetrotting over the last few months, but virtually in a carbon neutral sort of way. During our travels, we’ve handpicked a sample of carbon offset providers from the offsetting world, in order to make sense of the market, because consumers […]

To Profit, Part 2: Canada’s ZeroGHG

The voluntary carbon offsetting market is young and because policies and strategies differ around the world – as well as opinions – we’ve been talking with a variety of organizations and companies.
Two weeks ago we interviewed America’s for-profit carbon offsetter, TerraPass. And previously, we cast our net wide and interviewed non-profit providers from countries such […]

Offset Your Avatar at Second Life

If you don’t have much of a real life, consider offsetting your virtual one: starting this week some 20 million registered users participating in the multi-player game Second Life (SL), now have a chance to offset their carbon emissions produced during play.
Linden Labs, creators of the game, recently partnered with 4Offsets and Jorel Ventures, […]

To Profit, Part 1: America’s TerraPass

The question comes up among policy makers and those in the carbon offsetting business, and more recently among consumers: should carbon offset providers be non-profit entities, or will carbon emissions be more effectively reduced by for-profit companies who make money with every offset purchase?
After Carbon Catablog’s series of interviews from the non-profit world (see the […]

The Best Laid Plans are Cool: The Democrats on Global Warming

Obama and Clinton are neck-in-neck in a very hot race for presidential candidacy. But who will be the best Democrat for the planet?
According to Salon, the greatest threat to America’s future won’t be terrorist attacks or national security, it will be the effects of global warming and unrestricted greenhouse gas emissions.
So what are the Democrat […]

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