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 [...]
February 27, 2008 – 1:30 am
In our last post on the topic, we talked about CO2e being a handy unit of currency – one which we can use to make sense of the different kinds of greenhouses gases and their effects.
Even though CO2e may be closer to an estimate than “exact change,” it gives offset providers (and projects) the ability [...]
February 22, 2008 – 4:54 am
Remember back in the old days when companies started labeling products with ‘made from recycled materials’ logos? People bought into it because it made a lot of sense to buy things like paper and plastics from recycled sources. The concept caught on like wildfire and started driving a whole new area in consumer marketing.
Now in [...]
February 15, 2008 – 3:53 am
We’ve spoken with non-profit offset providers from Switzerland, the UK, and the US in recent weeks. Carbon Catablog’s is on a mission to understand the voluntary carbon offset market from the POV of the non-profit provider. We’re slowly, but surely getting there.
The Swiss-based myclimate says through its non-profit status “trust and credibility is higher if [...]
February 7, 2008 – 4:12 am
Over the past few weeks Carbon Catablog has been talking to providers in the voluntary market, working under the non-profit designation.
We’ve featured Russell from CarbonFund in the US: “Being a nonprofit allows us to focus solely on our mission: reduce greenhouse gases, fighting global warming, hastening the transition to a clean energy future;” and Phil [...]
February 6, 2008 – 11:31 am
It seems like an oxymoron: a green credit card. The more you buy, the more carbon you can offset. But that’s what set to happen now in the U.S. with the roll-out of a number of ‘green’ cards promising to offset a percentage of every dollar you spend.
Does that mean buying a Hummer on credit [...]
February 1, 2008 – 5:00 am
Before the Euro was introduced almost 10 years ago, European travelers and businesspeople alike were stuck with pockets and plastic baggies full of change. There were two kinds of francs, kroners, lire, guilders … each with their own fluctuating value.
We found all that switching back and forth as we crossed borders, not only confusing, [...]
January 28, 2008 – 6:09 am
We’ve all seen Al Gore’s film on climate change, right? We talk about global warming, as though we’re part of a UN committee on climate change. We even find ourselves lecturing about the hazards of greenhouse gases, without really remembering all of their names.
(Confess, it’s happened to you, right?)
Knowing your gases, can put you in [...]
January 25, 2008 – 7:49 am
Dreamers, visionaries or sharp business people? Carbon Catablog embarks on its second in a series of interviews with not-for-profit carbon offset providers.
Last week we interviewed Russell Simon from Carbonfund USA, who explained, “We’re a nonprofit because what we do is very clearly a public good.” With 93% of Carbonfund’s revenues going straight to its projects, [...]
January 18, 2008 – 2:08 am
Dreamers, visionaries or sharp business people? Carbon Catablog starts its first in a series on carbon offset providers, who neutralize the carbon of businesses and individuals in the not-for-profit way.
Through this series we’re hoping to make some sense of the voluntary offset market, so our readers can make more informed choices on where and how [...]
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