Brighter Planet and 350.org Challenge Bloggers to Offset Carbon Emissions With Onsite Badge
by George Spyros, New York City, USA on 05.30.08
350 Blogger Challenge to Fight Climate Change from Brighter Planet
Brighter Planet, a Vermont start-up committed to fighting climate change and building a clean-energy future, will offset 350 pounds of carbon in the name of bloggers who post a nifty badge on their own blogs. It's like being in the Cub or Girl Scouts but not having to attend den meetings presided over by your friend's creepy dad nor being obliged to go door to door selling boxes of lethal cookies. Oh, and 350 pounds of carbon is like flicking off 100 lightbulbs for a day or going two full weeks without a car. The ultimate goal is to get 350 bloggers involved for a total of 122,500 pounds of carbon offset, or the equivalent of turning off the lights in Washington D.C. for five minutes (haven't the lights in D.C. been off for about the last eight years? *yuk yuk*) As important is simply spreading the good green word about the climate movement far beyond the typical “environmental” realm and into the norm. See the beautiful badge that could be all yours for the low low price of ZERO after the jump.
Brighter Planet was borne out of a Middlebury College classroom, with the mission of demonstrating how small actions can lead to meaningful change. Through their products, services and expertise, the company aims to help consumers to reduce greenhouse gas-emitting activities and expand their use of green technologies, as well as building renewable energy projects.
Brighter Planet's 350 Challenge is inspired by Bill McKibben’s awareness campaign about the importance of the number 350, the parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere that we must aim for if we want to keep the planet relatively safe. McKibben is on the advisory board and you can learn more by listening to the podcast about the 350 campaign here.
Sounds too easy! Without much effort being good for the planet.
Hey, great post. Just gonna add that I hopped on the bandwagon and put it up on my site. Everyone out there should try and help out if you can.
I've already signed up for this since it doesn't really matter if it's a tiny drop in an enormous bucket, any change is a good change. And if this is a simple thing that gets people more interested in learning about and doing environmentally positive things, so be it!
I just put the badge on my site. Looking forward to helping reach the carbon offset goal! Great project.
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Just added the badge to my site!
Has increase in CO2 concentration coincided with increase in asthmatics. Is pH of lung tissue changed by increasing pre-industrial levels from 325ppm to 350 today?
I just added this to my blog. Great idea! I'll be sure to promote with a post as well.