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April 25, 2008

Landmark Study Emphasizes Importance of Universal Carbon Credit Definition, Site Credits, Rational Carbon Management System

On February 11, 2008, carbon economist Johannes Ebeling and scientist Maï Yasué published a landmark study entitled Generating carbon finance through avoided deforestation and its potential to create climatic, conservation and human development benefits. The title is long but the Journals of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom saw fit not only to assist these great minds in publishing their work but in aiding its promotion as well.

I bring it to your attention because this magnificent work combines the economic and environmental consequences not just of deforestation but reforestation and then adds yet another layer, the somewhat newer concept of avoided deforestation in the valuation of carbon credits.

Whew! I know. I am delving much deeper into economics and hard science than I usually do. Hang with me, dear reader. One of the very first topics I covered when this blog went live was my carbon credit definition, a vital concept which relates to how we reverse global warming without shuttering the world’s economy. In the succeeding months, I covered reforestation extensively. I only have touched on rational carbon management, though, and now is the time to report on all of it.

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May 12, 2008

Top 7 Ways to Tell You're a Global Warming Loser

Let’s face it. Reducing your carbon footprint, buying recycled products, riding the bus to work and all the other ways to fight global warming can be a pain. The good news is that just about every method available of doing your part to fight global warming has an ancillary benefit, usually humanitarian. You enjoy helping your neighbor, RIGHT?

Well, allow me to guide you. Here are 7 categories which can help you live greener and help humanity at the same time. In subsequent posts, I will give you an appropriate remedy which fits your selfish lifestyle.

1) Get a cause

2) Get a clue

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May 21, 2008

Top 7 Ways to Tell You're a Global Warming Loser – Way 4 of 7: Get Down (Hypermiling Bumper Stickers Tell an Important Story)

I often am asked about the fastest and easiest steps which people can take to reduce their carbon footprint and help reverse global warming. Among my favorite responses is to drive more sensibly. In fact, I harp on the subject, perhaps because I commuted by bus for nearly a decade from my home in Orlando.

What I didn’t realize until recently, though, was that everything I advocate about driving was part of a smart driving movement, known as hypermiling. It turns out that people from coast to coast and around the world are so distressed by retail fuel prices (and rightly so) that they have taken to adopting new behavior. You can read what to do at a handy website

http://www.HyperMiling.com

I am so impressed with the movement that I call for all drivers to display a hypermiling bumper sticker on their car. If we all drive smarter, we can reduce fuel prices, we can reduce our addiction to fossil fuels and we can reduce our contribution to global warming.

You may ask, though: what does this have to do with getting down? Good question! The simple answer is that being a global warming loser at its core means that you live wastefully. While it is good to park your car and travel by pedal power or shoe leather as often as you can, I don’t expect you to stop driving altogether. However, I do expect you to do more with less, especially less pollution.

Prior to the industrial revolution, most people lived with a relatively benign carbon footprint. Slowly, over the span of more than a century, we in the western world have participated in a fundamental change, one in which the consumption of natural resources is a secondary or tertiary consideration at best against happiness and personal wealth.

That has to change!

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June 30, 2008

Can a Carbon-Negative Company Send a Bad Environmental Message? Fiji Artesian Water Can

The term carbon-neutral has become something of a buzz word. Through a combination of conservation efforts and offsets, my wife Catrin and I have lived carbon-neutral since the year 2004. Carbon-neutral simply means to live as if there were no industrialization, producing only as much pollution as is necessary for a basic existence.

Sadly, if the entire world became carbon-neutral overnight, if we parked every car, decommissioned every fossil-fueled power plant and extinguished every forest fire, we could not save the Greenland ice shelf from melting into the North Atlantic.

Put another way, if we want to save ourselves from the ravages of global warming and reverse the crisis, we must become carbon-negative. We must return our planet’s atmosphere to its cleaner, earlier state while expanding the global economy at the same time.

It’s a tall order but it can be done. Fiji Artesian Water claims to be a carbon-negative company. I have reviewed the assertions of its FijiGreen.com website. There is much to admire about what Fiji Artesian Water is doing to expand its business, protect biodiversity in Fiji and reverse global warming. However, despite its commendable alliance with Conservation International and other environmental organizations, Fiji Artesian Water sends a bad environmental message because it encourages people to drink water from the other side of the world.

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