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The Climate Trust

High quality (additional, verified, monitored, permanent) "offsets" from projects that reduce or avoid emissions is a critical PART of the solution that any individual, firm, or government can take advantage of now.  The key concern here is quality.  Leaders in the post-adversarial environmental movement have to take the resonsibility to ask "what is behind this commodity and why is there a GHG reduction implicit in the 'sale' of the credit?"  The Climate Trust's sole mission as a 501c3 is to ensure the integrity (environmental and economic) of project-based reductions (=offsets).  We want others to learn how to do this, too.  Help us; help other non-profit and for-profits engaging in "GHG offsets" (no, a REC or "green tag" is not a GHG offset) by donating (to non-profits), buying (from for-profits), and asking lots of questions... and yes, by putting in CPFLs at home.  
Michael Ashford

Michael S Ashford The Climate Trust, USA Tel: 503-238-1915