Tag Archives: carbon neutral

Carbon Offsetting Is No Small Potatoes For spud!

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.
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Managing Corporate Carbon Legally and Practically

Personal, voluntary carbon offsets are a drop in the bucket compared to what companies can achieve. As we’ve learned earlier from Carbon Concierge, streamlining processes, opting for cleaner power, and making employees aware are some important first steps to take before offsetting. For the full interview, see Carbon Concierge Balances Business and Carbon Offsets With [...]

Ten Carbon Offset Providers Explain Why They Do It For Love And/Or Money

If you are representing a business, or just want to buy carbon offsets to lighten your personal carbon load, no doubt you’ve been confused as to where you put your money. Prices for offsets can vary wildly from $10 to $25 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions, and its equivalent (not all greenhouse gases are [...]

The UK Proposes Carbon Emissions Allowance for Every Citizen

Are you a UK citizen who flies to Majorca at the drop of a hat? Do you crank up the heat in the winter, and the air-con in the summer? Maybe you can’t live without your SUV? Well there’s some bad news coming your way: if you are an energy-hogging British citizen you might just [...]

To Profit, Part 5: The Netherland’s Climate Neutral Group

The Dutch are known to be earthy and sensible people, and thanks to the little boy who stuck his finger in the dyke, resourceful too. All these elements combined may be why the tiny country is, according to today’s featured guest the Climate Neutral Group, ranking second in Europe after the UK, in carbon offsetting.
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To Profit, Part 4: Australia’s Climate Friendly

The practice of carbon offsetting as a means to lightening the impact of global warming on our earth is picking up steam. From carbon labels on suits and chips, to ways you can offset your wedding – Carbon Catalog hopes that carbon offsetting is well on its way to being a mainstream practice, like recycling [...]

Sears Suits To Strut Carbon Labels

The first step to making the clothing industry less impacting on the environment is by quantifying carbon emissions first, says Moshe Gadot from Bagir, the tailoring company that outfits 1 in 6 UK men. Think about your favorite suit and how it was made.
Chances are it flew on an airplane from China or Europe and [...]

World Bank Finds Bureaucracy Slowing Down Emissions Cuts

There has been a slowdown in the global economy, but that’s not what seems to be the limiting factor in the global carbon market growth, which reached $64 billion in 2007, the World Bank reports in this Reuter’s story.
Reuters says that the global carbon market more than doubled in 2007 to $64 billion, but that [...]

Six Non-Boring Books For Lightening Your Carbon Load

The carbon offset market is awash with guides, policy manuals and technical specs, which can put most of us to sleep after the first chapter. While it’s important to offset your carbon emissions – that’s the whole basis of our existence – making your life close to carbon neutral in other ways should come first. [...]

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 [...]