emissions trading

I know Australian politics is not huge here, and I would not normally start a thread about it, but the immediate consequence of this is that the Senate, where the Opposition and independents have the balance of power, will now vote down the carbon trading scheme. As a G20 country and 13th...

Link In other news: Buying carbon offsets is too expensive for Congress. But it won't be too expensive for your local power plant. That's because your local power plant will just pass the cost on to you. You don't mind, do you?

On my commute this morning I was listening to the BBC daily newspod and a bit about carbon offsets. A fellow was angry that British Airways had not made it very easy for its passengers to voluntarily buy carbon offsets. Personally, I would not buy carbon offsets because I am not sure if it would...

So an interesting article came out today on MSNBC that questioned the new carbon craze that is spurring a new market. First, they mention Gore says that he offsets his 10,000 square foot house carbon foot print by buying carbon offsets. Should the guy who is taking every opportunity he has to...