Leading Carbon Trading Broker Uses EBay to Offer Carbon Offsets Direct from Brazil

Emissions trading allowance CantorCO2e assists Pop!Tech's aberrant carbon action by application eBay Giving Works.

San Francisco, CA -- Feeling like you're abrogation carbon aisle wherever you go? Point your browser to http://www.ebay.com/poptech and see how you can abutment a association based activity aimed at auspicious the use of renewable fuels. Here, you can accompanying account your carbon brand and abutment an accomplishment to about-face a bounded ceramics industry to renewable fuels.

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Through a accommodating accomplishment amid common emissions trading agent CantorCO2e, non-profit Ecologica, the developer of the Social Carbon Methodology, and the Pop!Tech Carbon Initiative, consumers can acquirement carbon discharge reductions through eBay Giving Works, eBay's committed affairs for alms listings. The Verified Emission Reductions (VERs) from the Bandeira activity listed on eBay Giving Works are purchased anon from Ecologica Institute, sponsor of a activity in Brazil's newest state, Tocantins. Encouraging the use of renewable fuels in bounded bowl kilns alleviates burden on the area's forests, which play a basic role in sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. The Pop!Tech Carbon Initiative alms on eBay Giving Works makes it simple for anybody with acceptance to the web to accomplish a difference.

We are admiring to be alive with Pop!Tech in an accomplishment to accredit individuals to account their carbon brand by purchasing tones (metric tons) consistent from the appliance of Ecologica Institute's Social Carbon Fund Methodology Through their aggregate purchases, individuals are authoritative a difference. The Pop!Tech listings on eBay Giving Works accomplish it cost-effective and applied for humans to buy just one, five, or added tonnes, and at a amount that would contrarily be out of ability to accustomed consumers "We are admiring to be alive with Pop!Tech in an accomplishment to accredit individuals to account their carbon footprint by purchasing tones (metric tons) consistent from the appliance of Ecologica Institute's Social Carbon Fund Methodology" said emissions trading agent CantorCO2e's co-CEO Josh Margolis. "Through their aggregate purchases, individuals are authoritative a difference. The Pop!Tech listings on eBay Giving Works accomplish it cost-effective and applied for humans to buy just one, five, or added tonnes, and at a amount that would contrarily be out of ability to accustomed consumers," assured Mr. Margolis.

CantorCO2e, one of the world's arch providers of banking casework to the ecology markets, is accouterment the carbon trading allowance casework on one of the projects accent by the Pop!Tech Carbon Initiative. Anyone can appointment http://www.ebay.com/poptech to account their carbon emissions and acquirement offsets.

An online carbon brand calculator is accessible on the Pop!Tech eBay store. You can use this calculator to acquisition out your exact carbon footprint, or you can use the afterward advice to plan or account your account purchases. For example, the average:

- American is amenable for abounding about 24 tonnes of CO2/year.
- Small business with about 10 advisers emits about 70 tonnes of CO2/year.
- A car emits almost 4.5 tonnes of CO2/year.
- Cross country air flight put out about 1 tonne of CO2 per passenger.

This different befalling provided by Pop!Tech harnesses the spirit of the anniversary division as individuals may buy carbon offsets for their accompany and ancestors as environmentally able gifts. Purchasers may accept to account as abundant of their claimed carbon emissions as they ambition and will accept a column agenda to affirm their purchase. The affairs is applicative for an individual, business, or household.

For added advice amuse appointment http://www.ebay.com/poptech

About The Bandeira Project
The Bandeira Project is just one archetype of the blazon of carbon offsets Pop!Tech has listed on eBay Giving Works. This activity is anchored in the northeast of Brazil, in the State of Alagoas. The bounded red bowl industry has historically acclimated Atlantic Forest copse as the ammunition antecedent for their kilns. Atlantic Forest is the additional above backwoods of South America and has been accountable to amoral deforestation, arch to the breach up of acreage with alone 7% of the aboriginal across now covered.

The objectives of this fuel-switch activity are to axis the deforestation of a awful adapted biome while aswell abbreviation the anaerobic adulteration of agronomical decay in the surrounding region, which would contrarily absolution methane, an acutely almighty green- abode gas. By switching the ammunition from Atlantic Forest copse to sawdust, bamboo, amoroso pikestaff and attic crust - all renewable sources of biomass - the activity will abatement CO2 emissions by at atomic 194,863 tonnes over a aeon of seven years.

About Ecologica Institute's Social Carbon Methodology
Ecologica Insitute's Social Carbon Methodology is a nationally and internationally registered mark created to agreement that the projects accepting developed to abate greenhouse gas emissions accord advisedly to the acceptable development of the across they are in. This is done by accumulation cellophane methods, as able-bodied as barometer the allowances accustomed to the bounded parties complex in the activity and to the environment.

The Social Carbon Methodology is flexible, dynamic, and holistic, and can be activated in altered types of projects such as forestry, activity efficiency, and renewable energies by application and ecology six indicators aural the Methodology: Carbon, Financial, Human, Social, Biodiversity and Natural Resources.

The Social Carbon Methodology has been in actuality back 1999, and continues to be implemented on Emissions Reductions Projects in rural areas of Brazil and abroad which are accurate and absolute by absolute Certifiers.

About CantorCO2e
CantorCO2e is a arch all-around provider of emissions trading, carbon trading and banking casework to the world's ecology and face-lifting activity markets. CantorCO2e offers finance, consultancy, advice, technology, and transaction casework to audience affianced in application and breeding renewable activity and managing emissions above the world.

CantorCO2e helps humans and corporations administer the banking aspects of their renewable activity and ecology choices. In North America and Europe, this agency accouterment emissions trading allowance casework to the renewable activity and ecology markets. Elsewhere, this agency bringing expertise, accounts and technology to projects that abate emissions.

CantorCO2e serves all of the world's arch emissions markets, including the Kyoto markets (CDM, JI and the European Trading Scheme), the US acquiescence markets, and the autonomous carbon market. We advice entities transact via cyberbanking trading screens, recorded blast lines, auctions and adjourned contracts. As able-bodied as emissions, we agent 'new' energy, such as renewable energy, booze and biodiesel. We admonish disinterestedness investment funds on carbon finance, acquaint investors to projects, and anatomy advanced sales to accredit activity developers to armamentarium their investments. We advice 'clean-tech' technology developers to administer their bookish property, to advance their licensing strategies, and to cycle out their technologies through our all-around network.

CantorCO2e is headquartered in London and San Francisco and has fourteen offices above 5 continents. This all-around yet bounded attendance above the world, calm with the different acquaintance of our staff, enables us to accommodate a akin of account that few can match. For added advice amuse appointment http://www.cantorco2e.com.

About Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.
Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. is a arch all-around banking casework firm. The Cantor Fitzgerald authorization includes institutional disinterestedness and anchored assets sales and trading, investment banking, clandestine equity, and asset administration and added businesses and ventures. For over 60 years, Cantor Fitzgerald, a accurate and airy leader, has been committed to carrying a different casting of unparalleled artefact expertise, avant-garde technology and chump account to its audience about the world.

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New Study Raises Major Questions on Biofuels

More carbon absent than acquired if converting acreage for biofuels crops; allegation accept above implications for altitude change policy.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 7, 2008 -- A new abstraction by The Nature Conservancy and the University of Minnesota finds that converting acreage for biofuel crops after-effects in above carbon emissions, in actuality deepening the botheration of all-around abating instead of mitigating it.

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This analysis examines the about-face of acreage for biofuels and asks the catechism ‘Is it account it?’ Does the carbon you lose by converting forests, grasslands, and peatlands outweigh the carbon you ‘save’ by application biofuels instead of deposit fuels? And surprisingly, the acknowledgment is no These accustomed areas abundance a lot of carbon, so converting them to croplands after-effects in bags of carbon emitted into the atmosphere. We analyzed all the allowances of application biofuels as alternatives to oil, but we begin that the allowances abatement far abbreviate of the carbon losses. It’s what we alarm ‘the carbon debt.’ If you’re aggravating to abate all-around warming, it artlessly does not accomplish faculty to catechumen acreage for biofuels production. All the biofuels we use now could cause abode destruction, either anon or indirectly Global agronomics is already bearing aliment for 6 billion people. Producing food-based biofuel, too, will crave that still added acreage be adapted to agriculture. In award solutions to altitude change, we have to ensure that the cure is not worse than the disease We cannot acquiesce to avoid the after-effects of converting acreage for biofuels. Doing so agency we ability accidentally advance ammunition alternatives that are worse than deposit fuels they are advised to replace. These allegation should be congenital into carbon emissions action traveling forward. We will charge to apparatus abounding approaches accompanying to break altitude change –- there is no argent bullet. But there are abounding argent BBs Some biofuels may be one argent BB, but alone if produced after acute added acreage to be adapted from built-in habitats to agriculture. The first-of-its-kind abstraction will be appear in Science after this ages and was acquaint online today.

“This analysis examines the about-face of acreage for biofuels and asks the catechism ‘Is it account it?’ Does the carbon you lose by converting forests, grasslands, and peatlands outweigh the carbon you ‘save’ by application biofuels instead of deposit fuels? And surprisingly, the acknowledgment is no,” said advance columnist Joe Fargione, a scientist for The Nature Conservancy. “These accustomed areas abundance a lot of carbon, so converting them to croplands after-effects in bags of carbon emitted into the atmosphere.”

Fargione continued, “We analyzed all the allowances of application biofuels as alternatives to oil, but we begin that the allowances abatement far abbreviate of the carbon losses. It’s what we alarm ‘the carbon debt.’ If you’re aggravating to abate all-around warming, it artlessly does not accomplish faculty to catechumen acreage for biofuels production.”

According to research, the about-face of peatlands for approach oil plantations in Indonesia resulted in the greatest carbon losses, or ‘debt,’ followed by the assembly of soy in the Amazon.

“All the biofuels we use now could cause abode destruction, either anon or indirectly,” Fargione noted. “Global agronomics is already bearing aliment for 6 billion people. Producing food-based biofuel, too, will crave that still added acreage be adapted to agriculture.”

These allegation accompany with observations that added appeal for booze blah crops in the U.S. is acceptable accidental to about-face of the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado (tropical savanna). American farmers commonly rotated blah crops with soybeans, but now, they are burying blah every year to accommodated the booze demand. Instead, Brazilian farmers are burying added of the world’s soybeans – and they’re deforesting the Amazon to do it.

Fargione and co-authors Jason Hill, David Tilman, Stephen Polasky, and Peter Hawthorne from the University of Minnesota aswell begin cogent carbon debt in the about-face of grasslands in the U.S. and rainforests in Indonesia.

“In award solutions to altitude change, we have to ensure that the cure is not worse than the disease,” acclaimed Jimmie Powell, who leads the activity aggregation at The Nature Conservancy. “We cannot acquiesce to avoid the after-effects of converting acreage for biofuels. Doing so agency we ability accidentally advance ammunition alternatives that are worse than deposit fuels they are advised to replace. These allegation should be congenital into carbon emissions action traveling forward.”

Researchers did agenda that some biofuels do not accord to all-around abating because they do not crave the about-face of built-in habitat. These cover decay from agronomics and backwoods acreage and built-in grasses and coarse biomass developed on bordering acreage clashing for crop production. The advisers appetite that all fuels be absolutely evaluated for their impacts on all-around warming, including impacts on abode conversion.    

“We will charge to apparatus abounding approaches accompanying to break altitude change –- there is no argent bullet. But there are abounding argent BBs,” said Fargione. “Some biofuels may be one argent BB, but alone if produced after acute added acreage to be adapted from built-in habitats to agriculture.”

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact:
Bridget Lowell
703-841-4531

Earth To America... Are You A Carbon Bigfoot?

The Biggest Loser’s Jillian Michaels, Barnes & Noble, JetBlue, Local.com, Apollo Alliance, Vespa Scooters, U.S. Postal Service, Reuters, University of Phoenix, Rock the Vote, OfficeMax and more; accompany EarthLab.com to drive 1 actor humans to analyze their carbon footprint! This is an agitative time, the appetite for ability and advice about the blooming movement and the ambiance is at an all time high we’re admiring to accept accumbent with so abounding top bank partners, committed to creating acquaintance in abutment of the environment. As individuals, committing to adopting solutions is an important aboriginal footfall in adopting claimed acquaintance and abbreviation our carbon footprints. Each of us have to aswell appeal that our leaders accomplish action changes to break the altitude crisis.

Seattle, WA -- The EarthLab Foundation (www.earthlab.com) a arch online ecology association today appear the barrage of the 2008 Earth Day Challenge to be captivated through the ages of April. The Earth Day Challenge calls on consumers civic to appointment Earthlab.com and accommodating accomplice web sites to analyze their carbon footprint, then, accomplish to alpha to bury blooming in their lives – with the ambition of abbreviation their Carbon Footprint by 15% through 2008.
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“This is an agitative time, the appetite for ability and advice about the blooming movement and the ambiance is at an all time high” declared Anna Rising, Executive Director of the EarthLab Foundation, “we’re admiring to accept accumbent with so abounding top bank partners, committed to creating acquaintance in abutment of the environment. As individuals, committing to adopting solutions is an important aboriginal footfall in adopting claimed acquaintance and abbreviation our carbon footprints. Each of us have to aswell appeal that our leaders accomplish action changes to break the altitude crisis."

EarthLab came into bulge endure summer, powering the Carbon and Lifestyle Calculator for the alternation of Live Earth concerts staged throughout the apple on 07.07.07. The EarthLab calculator has back become the a lot of broadly acclimated carbon calculator in the world, with over 1.75 actor humans accepting their carbon footprints. The alone Carbon and Lifestyle Calculator is a different three-minute analysis that generates a carbon brand account (ECP Score). Users save their score, again clue their advance over time as they absorb changes in their activity to abate their carbon brand while developing their own claimed blooming strategy. In addition, users can analyze their claimed after-effects to boilerplate ECP array by city, state, and even country.

In accession to the befalling to heighten acquaintance arch to a bargain footprint, EarthLab is featuring a “Living With Ed” sweepstakes. The admirable cost champ will be aerated off to Hollywood, CA to absorb the day with Actor and committed environmentalist Ed Begley, Jr. The sweepstakes coincides with the absolution of “Living Like Ed”, Ed Begley Jr’s newest book and “Living With Ed”, Season One DVD of Ed’s HGTV television show.

Anyone can account and accept their claimed ecology appulse with EarthLab’s chargeless Carbon and Lifestyle calculator now accessible at www.earthlab.com

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About EarthLab.com - The EarthLab Foundation
EarthLab.com is a arch altitude crisis association that provides a applied adviser to blooming active through association interaction, absolute ecology news, admonition from experts and key analysis. EarthLab appearance a alone Carbon Calculator, the aboriginal Carbon and Lifestyle Calculator of its affectionate - a different three-minute analysis that generates a carbon brand account (ECP Score), which associates can again save, plan to abate and clue their success over time - as a affiliate creates their own claimed blooming strategy.
EarthLab was founded by internet association avant-garde and amusing administrator Duane Dahl who maintains the acceptance that technology has the ability to accomplish a positive, abiding addition to analytic the world’s ecology challenges through apprenticeship and localized analysis.

EarthLab has artificial partnerships with abundant world-class brands and organizations including the Alliance for Climate Protection, chaired by Nobel Peace Prize champ and above Vice President Al Gore, Live Earth, SOS – the movement for a altitude in crisis, Vespa Scooters, Hearst / The Daily Green, The Prime Time Emmy’s, Leo DiCaprio’s, The 11th Hour, Dell Computers, eSurance, Terremark Worldwide, world-class chef and restaurateur Mario Batali and The Carbon Challenge, an all-embracing sailing aggregation advancing for Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09 and The America's Cup.

The EarthLab Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit alignment headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. The foundation provides anatomic beat and about-face analysis and educational efforts in allotment through EarthLab.com.

Gift Giving Just Got Greener

The Nature Conservancy Announces New Gift to Reduce the Impacts of Climate Change Carbon offsets are an agitative new way to abate the brand we leave on the environment If you accept accompany visiting you for the holidays, account the accoutrement of their biking by giving carbon offsets in their name, and appearance them that you affliction as abundant about them as you do about the planet.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 5, 2008 -- Sick and annoyed of giving a tie to dad, a bandage to mom? The holidays are just about the bend and Grandpa is still adage "Don't get me anything"? This anniversary season, The Nature Conservancy is alms a fun and different new allowance abstraction for accompany and ancestors that will advice you cantankerous names off your account and barrier the accoutrement of altitude change all at once. Give the allowance of carbon offsets, accomplishment your anniversary arcade and advice to assure the planet at the aforementioned time.

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"Carbon offsets are an agitative new way to abate the brand we leave on the environment," said Zoe Kant, Manager of Carbon Markets with the Conservancy's Global Climate Change Initiative. "If you accept accompany visiting you for the holidays, account the accoutrement of their biking by giving carbon offsets in their name, and appearance them that you affliction as abundant about them as you do about the planet."

Through Nature.org, you can measure your carbon footprint, appraisal your friends' and family's emissions, and accomplish a addition for carbon offsets, which are advised to aftermath assessable reductions in greenhouse gases and to "make good" for the appulse of our circadian lives by acknowledging efforts to restore and assure habitats that are endangered by the accoutrement of altitude change.

In an accomplishment to abatement the ecology impact, the absolute action is paperless. You can even forward an e-card to advertise your allowance on any day you choose. You can do it all online on our safe and defended forms, so no charge to action crowds at the mall, either!

Climate change and backwoods experts accept advised and implemented this affairs to aftermath assessable reductions in greenhouse gases and accommodated or beat the accomplished standards accessible today for autonomous carbon markets.

Read about the Conservancy's aboriginal carbon account activity in Tensas River Basin.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact:
Nicole Levins
703-841-5839