GE is huge in windmills which they bought cheap when Enron bankrupted.
GE also manufactures aircraft engines and is one of the world's largest aircraft lessors. The global warming alarmists hate airplane travel, since it supposedly burns a lot of fuel and produces contrails that supposedly cause global warming. It is hardly a green company.
This analysis of Generation Investment Management's activities is a bit simplistic. On its
website, the company claims to work with CarbonNeutral and the Chicago Climate Exchange "to ensure our London and Washington D.C. offices are fully carbon neutral." GIM also claims that it "has sponsored a full energy efficiency audit for each employee's residence, including suggestions for ways they can make home energy improvements", and that it works with CarbonNeutral Company "a voluntary offset provider . . . to offset emissions, particularly for the partners and families of Generation's 23 employees."
If Algore's house is being offset through GIM, it's likely through a payment to CarbonNeutral, a company with a
questionable past.
I wonder if Al Gore payed taxes on the imputed income from his company doing an energy efficiency audit of his residence (and a great job they did, by the way) and for any offsets they supposedly purchased on his behalf. And I wonder whether GIM (i.e. Algore, since GIM is a partnership and Algore is probably a partner) is writing these audits and offset purchases off of their taxes as a business expense. If Algore payed for this out of his own pocket, he probably couldn't deduct anything.