Tag Archives: greenhouse gas
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 [...]
Choosing how to offset your carbon dioxide emissions is complicated business. Readers have been asking us: what’s the difference between providers who offset for profit, and those who offset as non-profit organizations?
In our quest to find some answers we spoke with five different prominent non-profit providers from around the world – the United States, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
December 21, 2007 – 5:58 am
Some cities talk about, city planners develop grand plans for making it happen, and governments advocate it, but how real is the goal of making an entire city carbon neutral?
San Francisco’s mayor recently devised a plan that will help make its residents offset their greenhouse gases.
December 19, 2007 – 2:20 pm
Carbon Catalog was started earlier this year to put some order in the carbon offsets buying process. While our database offers an unparalleled starting point for one’s research (it’s like the IMDB for carbon offsets), the onus is still on you – the buyer – to make your money talk.
Even something like offset-buying for staff [...]
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