10,000 pounds and counting…
September 6th, 2006 by Jim SpadacciniSince Ideum became “climate neutral” back in June, we’ve avoided 10,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. This is the equivalent of removing 517 cars from the road or planting 764 trees. As we mentioned at the time, the cost of zeroing out our carbon emissions was relatively inexpensive and the process was simple. We have a page that explains more about becoming carbon neutral.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:54 am
what is the current price for 10,000 pounds of carbon?
April 1st, 2007 at 6:56 pm
What’s the simplest way for a small firm to follow your lead? Sounds like the call to the power company is the best first step.
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:33 am
Dan,
Most utility companies have some sort of renewable program. The US Department of Energy has site that lists the various programs by state.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/greenpower/markets/pricing.shtml?page=1
Each program has a “premium” which I have mixed feelings about. It helps off-set the “cost” of the renewables–which are more expensive but in many cases just because of the small scale of the operations and/or because the “true” cost of burning coal and oil have not been factored in. It costs us an extra couple hundred dollars a year to have 90% of our electricity come from wind.
Jim
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:37 am
Zack,
Sorry I must have missed your comment. You can offset carbon in a variety of ways. For our remaining carbon we purchased carbon credits at NativeEnergy.
http://www.nativeenergy.com/
The cost was $12 per ton. It’s more cost effective to not produce the carbon in the first place. You should check with your utility company and see if you can join a renewable program.
Jim