Posted on 10/27/2009 1:34:12 PM PDT by BeAllYouCanBe
If global warming scares you, think about spending $6.66 to offset your carbon emissions this Halloween.
The Delta Institute, which sells carbon offset credits to corporations on the Chicago Climate Exchange, is opening up its books to the public.
For $6.66, you can offset 1 metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions. The number 666 is usually associated with evil, but the money will do some good in this case.
When someone plants trees or grasses, they absorb CO2 and essentially negate CO2 emissions somewhere else, explains Todd Parker, an associate with the Institute in Lansing.
The offsets are generated primarily in Michigan and Illinois, from forestry and agricultural practices. Those include practices by dozens of landowners in the Saginaw Valley.
None of the credits come from projects in Transylvania, Parker laughed.
But purchasing the credits means theres less credits to go around to corporations, he said.
That means, in theory, that companies will have to make more of their own reductions instead of buying credits to offset emissions.
Do I get credit for the 122 trees on my property?
If not, I’ll cut them down and burn them.
Rush was reading some British book today that said having a medium dog was equal in carbon footprint to driving a Range Rover 6000 miles a year.
The way my Golden Retrievers fart, it’s more like driving 60,000 miles a year, LOL.
I remember that! I hated carrying the stupid can, I just wanted to collect candy. Also it was very difficult to get the coins out of the can through the slot.
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