Tag Archives: climate change
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, [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 7, 2008 – 10:52 am
I recently spent a few weeks in California’s endemic car culture, and it got me thinking about oil supply and climate change. America seems to depend on cars in a much more extreme way than Europe or Asia. But all over the world - including China with its 1.3 billion people - economies are [...]
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