Category Archives: How-To
As in the two previous years, Ecosystem Marketplace and New Carbon Finance have released their annual report on the state of the voluntary carbon markets.
The document, subtitled Fortifying the Foundation, is based on the reported activity during 2008 of 182 developers, aggregators, brokers and retailers of voluntary carbon credits.
It’s easy to be encouraged by the [...]
December 5, 2008 – 2:06 am
You might see their little purple delivery truck zooming around a street near you –– if you live in the Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles or Vancouver areas. Painted with the word spud! (for Small Potatoes Urban Delivery), the little green grocer on wheels is setting a fine example for small business owners everywhere.
By [...]
December 2, 2008 – 3:23 am
As we’ve mentioned before, most carbon offsets are purchased by companies rather than individuals. In the past few months, two interesting reports have been published relating to this growing market — one for corporate offsetters, and one about them.
October 7, 2008 – 4:38 am
If you’ve been following our interviews on corporate carbon offsetting (managing corporate carbon legally, eight steps to offsetting your business and why consumer offsets are failing), no doubt other questions before or beyond offsetting have popped into your mind. Carbon offsetting, experts recommend, is important to consider at the end of the line –– after [...]
September 18, 2008 – 4:01 am
Eight steps to making your business carbon neutral
It’s a good idea –– both for the planet and your company’s corporate social responsibility goals –– to think about and implement ways of reducing your carbon emissions. But where does one start? Today Carbon Catalog speaks with Carbon Concierge, a consultancy firm that helps businesses take on [...]
By Karin Kloosterman
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Tagged Business, carbon dioxide emissions, carbon offset, consulting, CSR, electricity, energy efficiency, Finance, global warming, greenhouse gas, offset provider, supply chain, transportation
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September 10, 2008 – 8:56 am
In the previous post we asked: What if free range eggs were sold like carbon offsets? The answer: Free range eggs would not be found on supermarket shelves. Instead they would be subsidized through a chicken charity, which asked for donations online.
The implication: If free range eggs were packaged like offsets, they wouldn’t get [...]
August 31, 2008 – 7:37 am
The first post in this series, Nobody’s Buying It: Rethinking Consumer Carbon Offsets, talked about the failure of carbon offsets as a consumer item. While there is cause for optimism on corporate offsetting, purchases by private individuals make up a meager 10% of sales.
This is surprising because many consumer eco products have succeeded, [...]
August 23, 2008 – 1:49 am
Buyers of offsets come in two types – businesses and individual consumers. But the balance between them is far from equal. According to the Ecosystem Marketplace 2008 report, businesses are responsible for around 90% of offset volume, and consumers a measly 10%.
With all the green awareness in the street, why is this? To me, it’s [...]
August 15, 2008 – 4:47 am
(image credit Office Now)
The Internet has transformed our world into a global village. Your business and organization can expand virtually and literally anywhere, even to the moon. Generating new partnerships, or maintaining old ones, require smart enterprises to send their people to conferences. While the Internet helps you do research and make initial contact, there [...]
Now is the time to scream “Fire!” So writes Andrew Simms, the policy director and head of the climate change program at the New Economics Foundation (NEF) –– a “think and do tank” –– in an opinion editorial at the Guardian. Carbon Catalog has heard an even less conservative five year estimate from experts we’ve [...]
By Karin Kloosterman
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Tagged carbon offset, carbon offsetting, clean energy, clean technology, climate change, energy independence, fossil fuel, fuel efficiency, government, green investments, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Policy, United Kingdom
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