Green Money?
Does anyone know about efforts to organize communities (neighborhoods, small towns) to measure their current carbon production and then organize to reduce it and raise money for the community by participating in the federal cap n' trade program. In otherwords, a community would "sell" it's pollution reduction credits to companies that exceeding their allowed amounts.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fernando Robbins on -
Our organization sat down during a lunch and learn session early this year and calculated our carbon footprint as an organization. If I can find the information I will happily share it and pass it along. We had a university faculty member, who was on sabadical, working with us for about a year. She was concentrating mostly on green build, green useage, basically anything to do with going green. After an hour of being educated on how we could reduce the pollution of our organization, a challenge was made to each and every staff member to take what they had learned and apply it to their individual households, calculate their households carbon footprint, and see what we could do to reduce pollutents at home as well. I will have to research this federal cap n' trade program you are referring to. I am not familiar with it.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Fernando Robbins on
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One last thought. I can only imagine the impact it would have on our neighborhoods, towns, communities, etc., if we all did our part and pulled our efforts together. "What a wonderful, wonderful, world this would be!"
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Permalink Reply by Boykin Clarke on -
An initiative to establish the infrastructure needed to measure the carbon footprint of the city of Atlanta is currently underway because of a recent collaboration between local nonprofits, city officials, and local businesses. Below is an article briefly explaining that a new metric system is being devised to monitor the city's energy usage, waste management and water conservation activities. Of note is that the metric system will be readily accessible by the public and will be constantly updated.
http://atlanta.daybooknetwork.com/story/2010/02/23/29793sa-ups-foun...
Also the entire initiative will relate the social impacts that environmental issues have on the public.
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