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Buy a Nikon COOLPIX S52 and Go CarbonFree For a Month

Nikon, Ritz Camera, and Carbonfund.org recently launched the Buy Green, Be Green program at Ritz Camera stores across the country.

Each purchase of a special edition ECO-Green Nikon COOLPIX S52 camera will come with a donation to Carbonfund.org that will offset one month’s worth of the average American’s carbon emissions.

Carbon News Roundup

Exchanges are jockeying for position in the market for permits to trade greenhouse gasses, which someday may rival the $3 trillion oil trade, according to analysts. Industry consolidation is expected over the next few years as a global market emerges with dominant exchanges most likely based in Europe, the U.S., and Asia.

Trade value under the Kyoto protocol’s carbon trading schemes reached $13.4 billion in 2007, more than doubling from 2006, but volumes of actual carbon dioxide cuts made by registered projects grew just 7 percent, according to the World Bank. The primary market for Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) grew to 551 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent last year from 537 million in 2006. The slow growth was due mainly to bureaucratic and procedural delays, according to the World Bank.

Surf’s Up, Carbon’s Down: San Francisco Surfrider Foundation

Surfrider is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s oceans, waves and beaches.

When the San Francisco chapter of Surfrider decided that offsetting its footprint was part of being a good steward of the surf, it turned to Carbonfund.org.

Keep the Adventure, Lose the Carbon: Pangaea Travel

Pangaea has been receiving a lot of attention recently because of its green position in the travel industry. Pangaea offsets all its clients’ vacation travel, be it by air, rental car, or train.

But here’s what makes Pangaea different: it doesn’t charge its clients anything for this service. That kind of commitment is rare.

The Coastal Society Offsets with Carbonfund.org

The Coastal Society is one of the nation’s premier organizations for bringing attention to issues affecting that important boundary where land meets sea: the coast. Its distinguished history includes running one of the longest running series of coastal conferences in the world.

When The Coastal Society decided to offset the emissions associated with its 21st conference (TCS 21), it turned to Carbonfund.org.

Carbonfund.org: Seattle Man Offsets Entire Life

Carbonfund.org: Seattle Man Offsets Entire Life; Onion: Please Give Our Headline Back - Mother Jones April 28, 2008

Carbonfund.org’s Return to Forest Project Awarded Gold Rating Certification

Paso Pacífico and Carbonfund.org’s innovative Return to Forest project, aimed at combating climate change, conserving biodiversity and supporting local communities in Nicaragua, was recently awarded the highest standard “Gold” rating of the Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Standards.

This exciting project is using carbon finance to restore approximately 1,000 acres of moist and dry tropical forest in Central America’s most critically endangered ecosystems.

Carbon News Roundup

The Wall Street Journal reports that the airline industry wishes to move toward cleaner fuels, better fuel efficiency in fleets, and more efficient air routes and air-traffic management. The industry’s rush to go green is inspired by a desire to cut costs as oil prices rise higher.

For the first time since the Kyoto Protocol went into effect, a country has been suspended from carbon trading. Greece is being punished for violating greenhouse gas reporting rules that underpin a fight against global warming, EU officials said on Tuesday.

President Bush’s new climate plan was dismissed last week as too little, too late by delegates at 17-country climate talks in Paris. Though it represents the first firm U.S. carbon ceiling, aiming to halt the growth of emissions by 2025, most other developed nations intend to cut emissions to pre-1990 levels by that time.

Elusion: The First CarbonFree DVD

Elusion is a waking dream, a non-narrative experimental documentary that takes the best tricks from the myths, legends and ghosts of the North American BMX flatland community and blends them from one scene to the next in fluid motion, accompanied by an original score that pulls viewers further in.

It’s also the world’s first CarbonFree DVD, and yet another example of the trend toward carbon neutral products.

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