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Channel Surfing with Venom’s CarbonFree® Certified Eco Alkalines

Earlier this week, the batteries in my TV’s remote control died. They had been going for awhile but I was a little too lazy to get off the couch and find a new set of batteries. When they finally went for good I realized that I had a set of AA Venom Power Eco Alkalines™. [...]

Funds for Forest Conservation

Carbon financing has saved over 2 million hectares of forest and channeled hundreds of millions of dollars towards forest projects over the last twenty years. This has helped to preserve tens of millions of trees, improve animal habitats, and sequestered millions of tons of CO2.
Ecosystem Marketplace released a new report today entitled, State of the [...]

Return to Forest & Tengchong Reforestation Projects Recognized at Copenhagen Event

The Return to Forest Project and Tengchong Conservation Carbon Project were honored at an event Wednesday concurrent with the UN Copenhagen climate conference. The What is Missing? Foundation recognized the two reforestation projects among projects helping to restore or provide habitats and protecting biodiversity. The foundation is named after Vietnam Veterans Memorial architect Maya Lin’s [...]

Copenhagen Update: From Green to REDD

“We do not have another year to deliberate, nature does not negotiate.”
-Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General
The pessimism in Copenhagen is growing as rifts between nations solidify. As the world watches and thousands continue to protest demanding action, the prospect of a binding treaty diminishes, seemingly by the minute. Rich nations want poorer nations to commit [...]

VW Makes Driving Paperless Easy

Do you own a car? Do you receive a car statement in the mail each month? That paper statement coming twelve times a year for the five or six years for your loan produces quite a bit of waste that you simply recycle or file away to later toss. Now image this [...]

A Look at Our Projects: Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge Reforestation Project

100 years ago, the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley in Northeastern Louisiana was a wetland ecosystem that supported 22 million acres of forested habitat. After decades of land conversion for agriculture this region now supports less than 20% of that forested habitat. With help from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Trust [...]

The Tengchong Conservation Carbon Project

Carbonfund.org supports projects all across the world, and a project we are supporting is the Tengchong Conservation Carbon Project in the Yunnan Province of Southwestern China. This project is reforesting 1,093 acres at the south end of the Gaoligongshan Nature Reserve and will ultimately sequester nearly 170,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere.
The [...]

Fighting Global Warming and Poverty

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the midst of a five-day visit to India has not been received warmly by her hosts as she broaches the subject of carbon emissions reductions. Clinton is urging India to reduce its emissions in accord with proposed action of the rest of the world to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of [...]

Grant Winner Greens School, Offsets with Carbonfund.org

Recent Grimsley High School graduate Will Leimenstoll of Greensboro, North Carolina set a great example of how to reduce what you can, offset what you can’t.
As Grimsley High School’s Sierra Club president this year, Leimenstoll applied for a $2,000 grant through Greensboro’s Teen Grant-Making Council.  Sponsored by the Community Foundation of Greensboro the grant was [...]

Bacchus Press Addressing Footprint from Paper & Printing

Most people would be surprised to learn that the paper and printing industry has ranked fourth among the manufacturing industries in the amount of energy used. Producing paper and the electricity used for factory operations, as well as the actual printing process, demand lots of energy.
Our partner Bacchus Press understands this. Mansoor Assadi told [...]