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• Greenwashing the conscience

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 141
  The Beeb has an interesting article today “ Carbon offset schemes not working, says holiday firm ” that confirms something I’ve mentioned before and discussed with my colleagues at work – buying carbon offsets is really an attempt to assuage ones lifestyle guilt. Money raised under the schemes is used to ...
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• Travelocity Offers Free Carbon Offsets for the Holidays

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Triplepundit.com | Planning on travelling this holiday season?  Travelocity, the online travel agency, is serious about sustainable travel that will benefit both traveler and Mother Earth, one mile at a time. In an effort to “embrace travel as an agent of positive change,” the online travel ...
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• Copenhagen? More Like Carbonhagen!

  
  Deceiver.com — Authority: 543
  If you’ve been watching the network news lately, you haven’t heard a word about Climategate . Which might be one indication why nobody watches the network news anymore. But if you have access to this cool new thing called the Internet, there’s all sorts of information about climate scientists faking evidence ...
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• Traditional Fire Management Helps Fight Climate Change

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 694
  Image credit: cytoon /Flickr Australia is no stranger to traumatic wildfires . Climate change is the likely culprit for the continents exceptionally severe blazes, but the indigenous people of Australia have been dealing with fire—indeed, managing it—for centuries.Among Australias indigenous communities, fire is ...
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• Chicago Climate Activists target Carbon Trading for anniversary of Seattle WTO shut down – 12 arrested

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 574
  *More details and photos coming soon!* Chicago climate activists returned to the streets today – this time in the financial district in downtown  Chicago – in a colorful demonstration against cap and trade, carbon offsets and other “false solutions” to climate change.  Building on the long-term campaign to ...
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• Travelocity Uses Facebook to Promote Travel Carbon Offsetting

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 623
  While at least one travel agency is ditching the notion of using carbon offsets for air travel, a prominent U.S.-based Internet booking agent still believes. Travelocity is using social media networking to promote carbon offsets for air travel, while offering free carbon offsets for the holidays.Travelocity has ...
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• Travelocity Offers Free Carbon Offsets for the Holidays

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 667
  Planning on travelling this holiday season?  Travelocity, the online travel agency, is serious about sustainable travel that will benefit both traveler and Mother Earth, one mile at a time. In an effort to “embrace travel as an agent of positive change,” the online travel company offers several ways for travelers ...
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• EcoAid LLC sees green in carbon offsets

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Phoenix.bizjournals.com | A growing movement toward more sustainable business practices and the pending federal cap-and-trade legislation have resulted in a new business model, and one Scottsdale startup is at the forefront. EcoAid LLC is among those companies born out of changing dynamics in the ...
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• The Myth About Global Warming

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 506
  Think about this! Al Gore has made more money off the Global Warming energy myth in the past 4 years, than he has made in the past 40 doing anything else. If the Carbon Offsets are implemented as he wants, he stands to become the first Green Billionaire. Now, what do you think is the driving force of his ...
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• Total Carbon Offset Red Diesel to Help Meet Carbon Reduction Obligations

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Responsesource.com | Independent national energy supplier, Crown Oil UK, has launched its latest innovation – a fuel with 100 percent carbon offset. Targeted at businesses in construction, utility, plant and rail industries, the standard red-diesel has been totally carbon offset in an arrangement ...
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• Britannia to Run Out of Wood for Second Time in 500 Years

  
  Green Living Ideas — Authority: 538
  A British company that provides strategic analysis of climate change, sustainability and energy issues to British corporations.Verdantix has published a report finding that the explosion of large-scale biomass plants in the UK could wind up struggling to find the biomass supply needed to keep plants running.It ...
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• Climate Czar Browner: What Conflict of Interest?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  Well, here’s yet another thing the unconfirmable Obama “Climate Czarina” Carol Browner got around disclosing thanks to, and one more reason for being stuffed into, a position of influence through the backdoor of a phony job not subject to Senate confirmation, even while lording over Senate-confirmed ...
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• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
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• Carbon offsetting — A great way to reduce our Carbon Footprints

  
  Global Warming 2020 — Authority: 124
  Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the major greenhouse gas that results from human activities and is responsible for global warming and climate change. The concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are increasing at an accelerating rate from decade to decade due to the burning of the fossil fuels in our day-to-day life. Each of ...
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• Carbon Offsets Ltd. Announces a Price Reservation Extension

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 523
  | Sourced From Theenergynews.com | VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – Nov. 16, 2009) – ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd., (TSX VENTURE:ESR), announces that it is extending the closing of its $0.75 financing. The proposed non-brokered private placement, as previously announced on October 14, 2009, consisting of ...
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• California Drafts its Own Cap-and-Trade Plan

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 623
  The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has issued a preliminary draft (PDF) of the nation’s first cap-and-trade program to control greenhouse (GHG) emissions, which is likely to influence federal regulations, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Greenspace blog.The carbon scheme would cap emissions of large emitters ...
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• One green to rule them all…

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 682
  I have been pondering the issue of global warming lately.  I generally take a cautious position when it comes to climate change.  I am first of all uncertain as to what portion of climate change can be attributed to human activity, but also cautious about assuming that simply doing nothing is the proper course.  If ...
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• Carbon Offsets: Angels Or Devils?

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 667
  In George Monbiot’s book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, he compares buying and selling carbon offsets to “pushing the food around on your plate to create the impression that you have eaten.” Responsible Travel might agree with Monbiot’s statement. Last month the company canceled its carbon offset ...
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• Fun Tips for Thanksgiving: Ethics, Priorities & Media Moments

  
  Shaping Youth — Authority: 123
  Nov. 23, 2009 Like many of you, I’m trying to figure out how to ‘go over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house’ while reducing my carbon footprint, cranky kids and car time, or being locked in a transportation vehicle of any sort (plane, train or automobile) when we really just all ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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