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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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 | 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 | 
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