Subject: Re: [permaculture] Are carbon offsets from tree-planting nonsense?
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:14:30 -0400
There might be one exception to the rule. Carbon Farmers Of America http://www.carbonfarmersofamerica.com is helping farmers to do keyline
plowing to reduce carbon. Carbon credits purchased from them can do some real
good.
-----Original Message-----
From: Graham <grahamburnett@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:19 pm
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Are carbon offsets from tree-planting nonsense?
Yes, as far as I understand that is how 'carbon offsetting' works.
Disgraceful isn't it?
Rain Tenaqiya wrote:
> You can now pay some person in a poor country to plant a bunch of trees to
supposedly make up for your greedy little plane trip vacation.
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Graham Burnett
Integrated Design for Local Environmental Resources