Tag Archives: global warming
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 [...]
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 [...]
January 4, 2008 – 7:00 am
The organic caterer’s been booked, the dress made from recycled lace has been bought, the email invitations are out. Dreaming of starting off your new life, with that special someone, on the right green foot?
It is estimated that a typical wedding generates 50-60 tons of CO2. And much of that comes from travel – [...]
December 28, 2007 – 6:48 am
(Image: Kendra)
We hate to do this to you on a Friday, but you’ve been asking about ways to make your life more carbon neutral, right? You’ve got the compost bin in the backyard, you’re cutting down on driving that car, and generally you’re making your life less carbon-intensive.
Now you are ready for the next [...]
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