Trade2Save.com Supports Green Living through Cell Phone Fundraising Programs and Carbon Credits
Offering new charity fundraising kits and one-of-a-kind carbon credits, Trade2Save.com gives online consumers a way to recycle electronics and save money San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 31, 2011 When the latest Droid phone or Apple iPhone is released, hoards of consumers buy the newest model without giving much thought to the old one that sits unused in the back of their closet. Trade2Save.com aims to help consumers reduce their carbon footprint through electronic trade-ins and appealing fundraiser options. “Charities and non-profit organizations can now download a fundraising kit from our website that will let them collect cell phones from donators to earn money,” said Chris Whittome, founder and CEO of Trade2Save.com. “Our new cell phone fundraising kits are available for all non-profits, such as schools, churches, charities and even indiv...
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Corporate sustainability good for the environment and the bottom line
(ARA) - As companies increasingly turn their attention to the environmental impact of doing business, they are learning that sustainable practices help reduce costs and increase efficiency. An effective sustainability plan not only assesses how to reduce carbon emissions, conserve water and minimize waste to landfills, but also fosters employee investment in a "go green" culture and lifestyle at home.One area where many companies are directly reducing their environmental impact is through the management of their supply chain. Working with their suppliers, companies can reduce excess packaging and waste by insisting products be shipped in multi-packs or reusable containers. For example, Lockheed Martin has achieved cost savings through a new program with Staples by purchasing green products, including recycled ...
Posted : June 02, 2011 | Comments : 0 | Explaining the Difference between Carbon Offsets and Renewable Energy Credits
By:James Nash
You think you understand renewable energy credits. You're sure you understand Carbon Offsets. You are fuzzy on the details about how they differ and when the purchase of one or the other might be appropriate. Never fear! This article explains the key differences, and similarities, between the two.
The first difference is the way that offsets and Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) are measured. Carbon offsets are measured in metric tons of C02 or C02 Equivalent. Renewable Energy Credits are measured in kilowatt hours, wh...
Posted : July 28, 2010 | Comments : 0 | Carbon Trading - What's All That About?
By Davis GreenThere is an emissions trading scheme in operation internationally but many people aren’t aware that this is perceived to be the cornerstone of the climate change policy in the EU and USA.
Firms are set quotas on how much carbon dioxide they can produce per year, if they produce more than this allowance, then they buy an allowance from another firm that has not reached it’s quota on how much it can produce in one year! Get it?
Emissions Trading is particularly suited to the emissions of greenhouse gases, the gases responsible for global warming, which have the same effect wherever they are emitted.
Emissions of carbon dioxide - a greenhouse gas - are widely thought to be a key factor in global warming, and increasing atmospheric temperatures around the world.
The idea of the carbon-trading scheme was to raise the cost to firm...
Posted : June 11, 2010 | Comments : 0 | Gold Fields Limited set to sell Certified Emissions Reductions
London and Johannesburg - Gold Fields Limited is set to become the world's first gold mining company to sell Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs), the financial securities used to trade carbon emissions.Gold Fields will derive the CERs from the capture of methane gas at its Beatrix Gold Mine in South Africa's Free State province. The company will sell 1,700,000 CERs to European energy trading company Mercuria Energy Trading SA under forward contracts which will run until 2016. The transaction was brokered by TFS Green, the carbon credits broker and environmental business of the worldwide Tradition Group and is estimated to be worth $26 million.
Gold Fields will use the funds to finan...
Posted : June 11, 2010 | Comments : 0 | US Government Funding Renewable Energy Facilities
$3 Billion in direct payments in lieu of tax credits for renewable energyThe U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Energy announced they are accepting applications for a new program that will make direct payments to offset the cost of renewable energy facilities. The two Departments estimate distributing at least $3billion in financial support for solar, wind, and other types of green energy. The funds will be made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. If accepted into the program, applicant must forgo any future income tax credits related to the approved project. The objective of funding the renewable energy projects now is to stimulate the economy and create jobs in the renewable energy field.
Posted : August 15, 2009 | Comments : 0 | New environmental market created: Montreal Climate Exchange
Aims to Address Climate Change and Other Environmental ConcernsMONTREAL and CHICAGO, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ - The Montreal Exchange (MX), Canada's financial derivatives exchange, and Chicago Climate Exchange(R) (CCX(R)), the world's first and North America's only voluntary, legally binding rules-based greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading system, announced today the signing of a Letter of Intent to develop a new joint venture to create the Montreal Climate Exchange, a Canadian environmental products market. As part of the Letter of Intent, CCX and MX will develop trading, clearing, and registry services for Canadian environmental products. Th...
Posted : August 12, 2009 | Comments : 0 | The Kyoto Protocol
From December 1 through 11, 1997, more than 160 nations met in Kyoto, Japan, to negotiate binding limitations on greenhouse gases for the developed nations, pursuant to the objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992. The outcome of the meeting was the Kyoto Protocol, in which the developed nations agreed to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, relative to the levels emitted in 1990.The developed countries committed themselves to reducing their collective emissions of six key greenhouse gases by at least 5%. This group target will be achieved through cuts of 8% by Switzerland...
Posted : August 06, 2009 | Comments : 0 | What Are Carbon Credits?
A Carbon Credit is a new financial commodity equivalent to one metric ton of Carbon Dioxide. Credits are awarded to countries, groups or businesses that have reduced their green house gases below their emission quota. Carbon credits can be traded in the international market at their current market price.Carbon credits are a key component of national and international attempts to reduce global warming by mitigating the growth in concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs). There are two distinct types of Carbon credits: Carbon Offset Credits (COC's) and Carbon Reduction Credits (CRC's). Carbon Offset Credits consist of clean forms of energy production (wind, solar, hydro) and bio-fuels. Carbon Reduction Credits consists of the gathe...
Posted : July 09, 2009 | Comments : 0 | Solar Energy Collecting as an Alternative Energy Source
Photovoltaic cells,those black squares an array of which comprises a solar panel, are getting more efficient, and gradually less expensive, all the time, thanks to ever-better designs which all them to focus the gathered sunlight on a more and more concentrated point. The size of the cells is decreasing as their efficiency rises, meaning that each cell becomes cheaper to produce and at once more productive. As far as the aforementioned cost, the price of producing solar-generated energy per watt hour has come down to $4.00 at the time of this writing. Just 17 years ago, it was nearly double that cost.Posted : June 19, 2009 | Comments : 0 | 
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Published:Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:51:40 -0700
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Rentech Nitrogen Partners, L.P. and ClimeCo America Corporation jointly announced today that ClimeCo America will deliver 120,000 Climate Reserve Tonnes to Just Energy , a leading......
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Published:Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:18:00 -0700
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Carbon trading: Why 'good' comp...
Published:Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:29:07 -0700
When it comes to Europe's carbon-trading system, top companies like Dow Chemical, ConocoPhillips, and BP prefer to save a little money than hone their 'green' reputat......
NDP calls for expanded public-sector re...
Published:Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:30:28 -0700
The B.C. government should offer hospitals and universities the same relief on carbon credits as it has for school boards, New Democratic Party environment critic Rob Fleming said......
