Driving in Neutral - Carbon Neutral that is....

My “green snooping” today has led me to LiveNeutral.org

A non-profit group formed by the Presidio School of Management based here in San Francisco.

The site is simple, straightforward, and informative. There are simple carbon calculators to help offset both your driving and your flying. After calculating your carbon footprint, offsets can be purchased directly at the site.

The offsets are from the Chicago Climate Exchange, the "world’s first and North America’s only legally binding rules-based greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading system, as well as the world’s only global system for emissions trading based on all six greenhouse gases".

There are simple tips on otherwise reducing your energy use, and thus your carbon footprint, on the site as well.

The philosophy behind both LiveNeutral.org and the Chicago Climate Exchange is to provide market based solutions to the problem of greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, and climate change.

I don’t think carbon offsets are the final solution to global warming, but I do think organizations like these, and the philosophy they espouse, is a great place to start.

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