Carbonfund.org Launches Climate Challenge
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 02.16.06
The Kyoto Protocol took effect one year ago today, with the U.S. conspicuously absent from the group of nations signed up to actively fight climate change at the national government level. Happily, Carbonfund.org has launched their "Climate Challenge," making it easy and affordable for anyone to reduce their climate impact through support of renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation. The Challenge is quite simple: by visiting carbonfund.org and making a few strategic clicks of the mouse, anyone can offset their carbon emissions. The typical person can reduce their direct carbon emissions for less the $5.00 per month, or can go ZeroCarbon and offset their entire carbon footprint for less than $9.00. Carbonfund has partnered with Working Assets (a carbon-neutral company themselves), who will match five additional tons of CO2 reductions for the first 100,000 people who go ZeroCarbon. Don't keep sweatin' it out -- take the Challenge and cool your jets now! ::Carbonfund.org via ::CSRWire
how lovely. you can donate and get a pen! because there weren't enough BICs the last time we checked
I am very interested to invest in renewable energy certificates in order to reduce/neutralize my footprint. I have called a few resellers and have been very impressed, but they were all Green-e certified. I cannot find any mention to Green-e on Carbonfund.org. When one invests should it be green-e certified or does Carbonfund have a good enough reputation?
I just talked to the people at CarbonFund.org and they do use 3rd-party organizations, including Green-e, to monitor all of their projects.
I agree with Carbonfund.org guys. I think their project is great, their intentions good, and I dont doubt their are putting the best on it. But I have to be realistic. I guess 60 dollars a year cannot do nothing against facts like the one which says a Land Rover sends 8000 kilograms of co2 per year to the atmosphere. If we want to contribute in the fight against the rainbow effect, lets bet for hybrid cars, solar heatings at home and wind mills. Unfortunately, good intended ideas are not always the best ones...
More about what I think in http://cocosworld.wordpress.com/2006/05/04/get-your-conscience-clean-by-only-60e-limpia-tu-conciencia-por-solo-60e/