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What are Carbon Offset Credits?

Carbon credits are a key component of national and international attempts to mitigate the growth in concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Carbon trading is an application of an emissions trading approach. Greenhouse gas emissions are capped and then markets are used to allocate the emissions among the group of regulated sources. The idea is to allow market mechanisms to drive industrial and commercial processes in the direction of low emissions or less "carbon intensive" approaches than are used when there is no cost to emitting carbon dioxide and other GHGs into the atmosphere. There are also many companies that sell carbon credits to commercial and individual customers who are interested in lowering their carbon footprint on a voluntary basis. — From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_credit

Carbon Calculators

There are a variety of carbon calculators on the net that you can use to estimate your carbon usage.

What GreenAroundYou Does

GreenAroundYou researches those many companies for you, such as e-bluehorizons.org, and finds the ones with the best market prices for carbon credits, to maximize the impact of your contribution. We use your funds to purchase carbon credits (at the best price, to get the most carbon credits) then we retire them. That is, we guarantee that they will not be resold, in effect sequestering that carbon, taking it out of circulation. We will buy credits from a variety of both nonprofit and for-profit entities, whoever can maximize the amount of carbon retired for your dollar. Where the price is the same, we will favor nonprofit organizations. We're encouraged by the formation of market-based exchanges and seek to support them, such as the Chicago Climate Exchange.

How To Do It

If you'd like to offset your carbon footprint or that of others, enter how much you'd like to offset: $
(There are also more options.)