carbon offsets

Online Tool Allows Architects and Builders to Easily Calculate and Purchase Renewable Energy Credits to Gain Points for Achieving LEED Certification.

This week let ’s consider the question, “Are offsets inspirational?” Here we examine offsets from the 'innovation' side, and highlight the potential for offset opportunities to motivate the development and widespread adoption of new and cleaner technologies.

Having a green wedding is not only good for your carbon footprint, it is also a great way to raise awareness to your guests that they can go “green” and still have a wonderful celebration all around. Here are ten easy tips for making your wedding a greener event.

Remove CO2 from the atmosphere by doing common activities like searching, clicking, and social networking.

Today, there are dozens of companies in the United States, many partnered with bigger businesses and corporations, that will help you calculate your carbon footprint, determine an appropriate carbon offset, and allow you to spend your money to benefit the environment and buy some peace of mind. But, as always, there are plusses, minuses, and questions concerning these companies and the products and services they sell.

A recent study, Doing Well By Doing Good? Green Office Buildings, has shown that green buildings are paying off big, and not just by the carbon offsets measurement. They have higher occupancies rates, primarily due to the higher quality materials and architecture that has gone into making them, which is making them a profitable option for all sectors of development.

In my previous role as Executive Director of LiveNeutral I regularly received emails from friends and colleagues sharing the website or videos developed by the “CheatNeutral” (http://cheatneutral.com/). They asked if I though it somehow damaged or diminished the objective of LiveNeutral which in part promotes the use of carbon offsets as a tool to help prevent catastrophic climate change. This pertains as much to the work of ClimateCHECK as it does to LiveNeutral and is an important concept to consider for those of us in or interested in the carbon markets industry.

So you want to add a carbon offset program to your company? Maybe you’re thinking it’s time to go green and become carbon neutral?

With the introduction of a customizable offset program, TerraPass has taken carbon offsetting to a new level. Now customers can not only purchase offsets to reduce their carbon footprint but they can also direct the company's effort to offset projects of their choice...

Forest Conservation helps reduce greenhouse emissions, preserve biodiversity, and improves rural livelihoods, and one of the best ways for consumers to help fund these projects is by purchasing carbon offsets.

Reuters reports that the U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has launched a new carbon emissions calculator in a bid to standardize the carbon offset schemes provided by various airlines.

Carbon Offsets Daily : When do you think the domestic voluntary carbon market will become a compliance market and how will that change affect the environment?

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Japan, besides setting a 60-80% CO2 reduction goal (by 2050, not 2020 like environmentalists want), plans to launch a carbon market in autumn, which, if successful, could go global at some point in the future. Japan is the world's fifth-largest emitter. This move advances Japan's green agenda before hosting the G8 summit next month.

Eight leading carbon reduction and offset providers have joined hands to form the The International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), with the overall objective of strengthening, promoting and lending credibility to the burgeoning market for carbon offsets. The ICROA members have signed up to a new code of best practice towards the fulfillment of...