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Interview with Dan Coffey about the real estate market in Harbor Country, 4th of July, fireworks laws, energy crises, 2nd Amendment

TerraPass is the leading consumer retailer and marketer of greenhouse gas reduction offsets. Since 2004, over 100,000 TerraPasses have been sold to individuals, families and businesses to balance out the global warming impact of their flying, driving and home energy use. Together, TerraPass customers have reduced more than 780 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, the primary cause of climate change. TerraPass works by funding clean energy and carbon reduction projects throughout the U.S., including wind power, farm power, and landfill gas capture. Every TerraPass offset purchase and marketing claim is audited according to standards set by the nonprofit Center for Resources Solutions, creator of Green-e, the nation s leading renewable energy certification program.

TerraPass is the leading consumer retailer and marketer of greenhouse gas reduction offsets. Since 2004, over 100,000 TerraPasses have been sold to individuals, families and businesses to balance out the global warming impact of their flying, driving and home energy use. Together, TerraPass customers have reduced more than 780 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, the primary cause of climate change. TerraPass works by funding clean energy and carbon reduction projects throughout the U.S., including wind power, farm power, and landfill gas capture. Every TerraPass offset purchase and marketing claim is audited according to standards set by the nonprofit Center for Resources Solutions, creator of Green-e, the nation s leading renewable energy certification program.

Rhett summarizes his bumbling adventure through the world of commodities economics and intangible assets as he attempts to figure out how the green electricity program for Florida Power and Light works. In the process, he lays out criteria he finds sufficient for a carbon offsets company and discovers NativeEnergy, a company which meets his standards.We apologize for the long running time, but there's no quick way to do this topic, and it's a very important one.Photo credits: wind farm by rasmithuk, coal plant by mikkoit, hippie dog by sis, and tree by terinea. All photos are available on a CC attributions license.The free "carbon offset" certificate humorously provided by http://www.freecarbonoffsets.com. To find out more about FP&L's green energy program, please see their FAQ here. For a list of America's biggest REC purchasers, see this list from the US Department of Energy. We'd also like to bring this report (note: PDF) from Clean Air Cool Planet regarding the state of business practices among offset companies.Also, we'd like to make it clear that we have not been paid or even asked to promote FP&L's green electricity program or NativeEnergy in any way, nor should this video be construed as an endorsement. We're too insignificant to get paid for our endorsements. The purpose of this video is to explore the market forces of RECs and offsets and show how we've come to a conclusion about how we believe we can buy an offset productively. To provide a more balanced perspective, here's an opposing article from FoxNews.com about Congressional investigation into offsets, including NativeEnergy. This was released while we were shooting.

Part 1 in blogTO's 10 part series looking at Toronto-based green-focused businesses. This episode features Howie Chong, Managing Partner of CarbonZero.

Meteorologist Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT takes a scientific look at the myths and misconceptions of global warming.

[In Blogger, to hear the show, click the title above.] When we purchase carbon offsets, or companies claim to be "carbon neutral" - are we kidding ourselves? In the first of a two-part radio series, we look at one of the best-known "green" carbon offset companies, Planktos Corp. I spend the whole show interviewing the CEO, Russell George. You can always learn a lot about the workings of the ocean, from Russ George. He tells us plankton, the very basis of the food chain, is greatly reduced since 1980. That means less food all the way up to fish, which are also declining severely. George explains that just as water rising from the ocean creates the rain that feeds the land - so dust from the land has been feeding phyto-plankton, (also called algae) for millenia. But now George thinks that the extra CO2 tossed into the atmosphere has allowed groundcover, like grass, to stay greener into the summer. That means less dust, and less micronutrients like iron, reaches the ocean. Plankton are thought by many scientists to have been (a) the source of all of our oxygen, and (b) a regulating factor (possibly) leading to ice ages. They are a huge engine that, when blooming, can suck incredible amounts of CO2 out of the air. Are they a big solution to climate change? Can they buy us time, while we install alternatives to fossil fuels? Planktos Corp is planning to create new, permanent forests in Hungary, and then in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Guai) of British Columbia. They will sell these carbon credits, mainly to hungry, would-be-green institutions and companies in Europe. The new carbon markets are already worth billions. Russ George also has a dream to take iron filings out to the Pacific, to "feed" the algae, and stimulate new blooms. About a dozen government-funded expeditions have tested this idea. They found that new plankton did occur, but the impacts on the ecosystem, and the real carbon that gets stored, is difficult to predict. Major environment groups, including Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund have strongly opposed Planktos' proposed "Voyage of Discovery" to the Pacific. Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shephard Society, has threated direct action to stop the project. He has been known to ram ships at sea. Meanwhile, Planktos Corp purchased a former U.S. Research ship, the Weatherbird II. Already months late, it's in Florida, loading equipment for the voyage, allegedly with a former Greenpeace captain signed on. We asked Russ George about his critics, and about his business prospects - which are always right on the edge, as a start up company that could make billions, or go bust. This is important radio, about the future of our oceans, and whether climate capitalists can act independently there. I urge you to download the one hour program and listen. Next week, in part two, we'll hear more from Russ George, from the Chicago Green Festival, but I'll also interview his critics, including stock watcher David Baines, and Pat Mooney from the environmental ETC Group. You can now subscribe to the weekly one-h0ur Radio Ecoshock show, as a podcast. Sign up for your IPOD, or any podcast receiver software, on this page: http://feeds.feedburner.com/EcoshockShowNotes NEW: You can also find the full text transcript of our interview with Russell George of Planktos. Alex Smith host Radio Ecoshock www.ecoshock.org

Whether driving our cars or powering our homes, simply living our daily lives causes tons of pollution. So offsetting our environmental impact through the purchase of renewable energy credits is one way to move toward a carbon neutral lifestyle. Josh Dorfman discusses exactly what is meant by energy credits and the forward-thinking organizations that are making these choices easy and effective.