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Treeflights.com is just one beneficiary of a growing environmental subindustry known as "carbon offsetting." Typically, one of this new breed of companies first calculates the amount of greenhouse gases an individual or business generates by flying, driving or heating and lighting a home or office. Customers then voluntarily pay that firm to invest in projects that will cut carbon emissions by an equal amount. (Energy-hungry Americans generate about 20 tons of CO2 per capita per year; Britons, about half that). So for anything between $4 and $40 to offset the equivalent of one ton of CO2, a consumer...
...explains Brad Birky, who opened SAME with his wife, Libby, in October. Customers who have no money are encouraged to exchange an hour of service - sweep, wash the dishes, weed the organic garden - for a meal. Likewise, guests who have money are encouraged to leave a little extra to offset the meals of those who have less to give. "We're a hand up, not a handout," says One World owner Denise Cerreta, who prides herself on the fact that everyone can afford a meal at her caf?...
...purchase of RECs compensates for the fossil fuels currently used by the buildings. The RECs do not actually supply energy that Harvard will consume itself—the money goes to support a wind farm in Minnesota, indirectly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Harvard will provide enough RECs to offset 10 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions produced this year by the 30 buildings, which is the equivalent of removing 2000 cars from the road over the course of a year, according to the HGCI Web site. Emig could not provide cost estimates for the RECs. Over 3,500 people...
Cambridge Public School Committee members argued over how to allocate unspent funds in the district’s operating budget at a meeting last night, just four months into this fiscal year. In 2004-2005, the district established the School Debt Stabilization Fund in order to offset the unexpected costs of future projects. Because of past budget allocations and interest income, the district expects to have a budget surplus for the current fiscal year, which began July 1. Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn presented members with a list of 10 items—including computer upgrades, professional development training for teachers...
...Houston, population 1,992, and she campaigned intensively in such conservative strongholds as Springfield and St. Charles County. And the gamble appears to have paid off, holding down Talent's margin of victory to a slim 53% in conservative Greene County, where he needed to do much better to offset McCaskill's advantage in St. Louis, where Democrats typically win 80% of the vote...