Down On The Urban Farm

I am sorry, but Zerofootprint are not "educating about carbon trading". They are selling a product. That is the goal of their website: sell. Not educate. Their 'facts' are extremely vague and they could not tell me with any accuracy what is actually done to 'offset' my 'carbon footprint'. As far as I can tell, for my $80 Personal Offset, they are going to plant 'approximately' 1 seedling 'somewhere' in BC. Zerofootprint is just a retailer selling (hot) air for money. Nothing more.

Erwin, Great point. Although I thing there is a certain amount of awareness that education that goes on even in these cases. Do you know of any great sites out there that have the depth of education that you are looking for around carbon trading? Would love to see them.

Greg, while I appreciate your endeavours to achieve sustainability and your efforts to lead a greener life, Carbon Offsets and Trading is not the answer. There is no logical proof that buying Carbon Credits is making this planet any cleaner. For one, carbon (or more precisely, CO2) is NOT a pollutant. It is a colourless, odourless gas, making up less than 0.3% of the atmosphere. If you want to clean this planet, start with the real pollutants, smog, ecoli in rivers, hazardous waste etc. That is where the money should go. Flying across the ocean, and then giving $100 to a company that plants 5 trees in a forest to "eat up" 5 tons of harmless CO2 while it is growing, does nothing to clean up pollution. It just makes whoever is trading these Carbon Credits richer. Please visit www.friendsofscience.org for insights into the climate change/carbon debate.