Carbon offsets are financial instruments that may be purchased and traded to compensate the GHG emissions released by a person or a firm. The rationale behind purchasing offsets is to balance those emissions that cannot be avoided during the course of our normal lives. If one generates emissions in the presence of an alternate sustainable [...]
The governors of Washington, California and Idaho are taking a bold stride to begin to ween ourselves from the current gasoline infrastructure according to a recent Seattle Times article. A proposed plan along the 1,382 miles of the west coast I-5 corridor would create a “green freeway” utilizing rest stops as refueling stations for alternative [...]
Selling power back to your utility company can be easy. Essentially you use a solar or wind powered source for energy during the day and it supplies energy back to a grid, causing your utility meter to run backwards. Then, when it is dark outside or windy, the meter starts to roll forward again. This [...]
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