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e-BlueHorizons - Offset Your Carbon Footprint and Stop Global Warming Pollution
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Welcome to e-BlueHorizons, where you can fight global warming by retiring verified greenhouse gas emissions offsets ("carbon offsets" or "carbon credits"). Supports The Conservation Fund.
Act Now to Offset your Climate Impact and Stop Global Warming Pollution
Welcome to e-BlueHorizons, where you can act now to help prevent the damaging effects of climate change on our natural environment. In fact, your action on e-BlueHorizons will help fight global warming and offset your own climate impact in two very important ways:
Greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Your action will cause the retirement of verified greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions offsets (a.k.a, "carbon offsets" or "carbon credits"), a tradable environmental currency that can sometimes be used as a license to pollute. When you retire offsets, you remove them from relevant registries and take them permanently out of circulation, thereby preventing their future use.
Carbon sequestration through reforestation. In addition to retiring carbon offsets in your name, we'll donate 50 percent of the net proceeds from your transaction to The Conservation Fund, the nation's foremost environmental nonprofit organization, to support it's "GoZero" climate change initiative. Since 1985, The Conservation Fund has been working across the 50 states to promote reforestation and preserve sensitive wildlife habitats, working landscapes, recreation areas, and open space.
Join us today in the fight against global warming and climate change.
Who Uses e-BlueHorizonsSM, and Why
Each one of us has our own "climate footprint". That is, we each contribute to global warming directly or indirectly through our own consumption patterns, work activities and life-styles. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that a two–person household generates greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 30 tons per year.
e-BlueHorizons is used by individuals and organizations (such as businesses, school groups, religious congregations, and community service organizations) who want to satisfy their own sense of environmental citizenship by becoming "climate neutral" in their group endeavors or in one or more aspects of their personal and professional lives. Taking action also provides a simple and effective way to:
Provide a unique wedding, birthday, or holiday gift to a family member or friend who shares your commitment to protecting the environment;
Honor an achievement of a colleague, peer-group or professional team in a manner consistent with the values and aspirations of the honoree(s);
Offset the climate impacts of an important civic, national or international project or event;
Demonstrate progress toward a specific GHG emission reduction requirement or goal; or
Implement a corporate award program that is environmentally meaningful.
Whatever your motivation or objective, you can act now to help preserve a legacy of clear skies and blue horizons for future generations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q -What is global warming?
A - Global warming has been defined as the progressive gradual rise of the Earth's average surface temperature caused in part by increased concentrations of Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere. According to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, an independent, non-profit scientific and public policy research organization:
"The scientific community has reached a strong consensus regarding the science of global climate change. The world is undoubtedly warming. This warming is largely the result of emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from human activities including industrial processes, fossil fuel combustion, and changes in land use, such as deforestation. Continuation of historical trends of greenhouse gas emissions will result in additional warming over the 21st century, with current projections of a global increase of 2.5ºF to 10.4ºF by 2100, with warming in the U.S. expected to be even higher. This warming will have real consequences for the United States and the world, for with that warming will also come additional sea-level rise that will gradually inundate coastal areas, changes in precipitation patterns, increased risk of droughts and floods, threats to biodiversity, and a number of potential challenges for public health."
Q -What are offsets?
A - "Carbon Offsets" or "Carbon Credits" represent the regulatory or market value of the steps taken by regulated industries – or by the sponsors of renewable energy projects, energy efficiency projects, and other environmental quality initiatives – to reduce or counteract the effects of air pollution from specific sources below the levels that are otherwise required by applicable law.
Verified carbon offsets, also known as Verified Emissions Reductions (VERs), are claimed reductions in emissions that have been audited by an independent third party and determined to satisfy the particular criteria established for regulatory purposes or for a voluntary offset registration and retirement program. The carbon offsets available on e-BlueHorizons have been audited and verified through a rigorous monitoring and reporting protocol established by the Environmental Resources Trust, Inc. (ERT).
ERT is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to pioneering the use of market forces to protect and improve the global environment. ERT's protocol for verifying claimed reductions in GHG emissions is consistent with guidelines established by the International Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations, and other agencies and organizations concerned with climate change and sustainable development.
Q -What is The Conservation Fund and what does it do?
A - The Conservation Fund is a national environmental nonprofit dedicated to protecting America’s most important landscapes and waterways for current and future generations. Since 1985, the Fund has protected more than 5 million acres across the country, which stands today as a lasting legacy of national parks and wildlife refuges, community open space and recreation areas.
Since 2001, The Conservation Fund has been recognized as the nation’s top-rated environmental nonprofit by the American Institute of Philanthropy for its unsurpassed efficiency and effectiveness. In 2005, the Fund received the highest “four star” grade from Charity Navigator, making it one of the few charities to receive top marks from both watchdog organizations. To read more about the work of The Fund, click "The Conservation Fund".
Q -How will The Conservation Fund use its share of the proceeds from transactions on e-BlueHorizons ?
A - To help fight climate change. In 2001, as part of its mission to protect the nation’s outdoor heritage, The Conservation Fund launched a climate change program called carbon sequestration through reforestation. This initiative enables individuals, communities and companies to fight global warming -- simply by planting trees. As trees grow they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, providing a proven solution for global warming but also resulting in other benefits for the environment such as restoring wildlife habitat, enhancing air and water quality and providing flood control. Through this program, the Fund has protected 20,000 acres and planted five million trees, which will capture approximately 10 million tons of CO2 over the next 70 years. Proceeds from transactions on e-Blue HorizonsSM shared with The Conservation Fund will directly support this reforestation effort.
Q -What type of renewable energy and pollution control projects generate the offsets available for retirement on e-BlueHorizons?
A - Projects that capture and destroy methane at municipal solid waste landfills where the active capture and use of such methane is not mandated. Methane is a greenhouse gas that has a global warming potential 21 times that of carbon dioxide, according to the International Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations. That means that each ton of methane released to the atmosphere has 21 times the heat trapping potential as one ton of carbon dioxide emissions. Every time a ton of methane is captured and prevented from escaping to the atmosphere, it has the same beneficial environmental effect as preventing 21 tons of carbon dioxide from escaping to the atmosphere.
Detailed information about the projects at which the e-BlueHorizons offsets are generated may be found in, the following documents: e-bluehorizons.com Project No. 1 (PDF,15.3k); e-bluehorizons.com Project No. 2 (PDF,18k).
Q -How do I know that the emissions reductions that are the basis for offsets retired through e-BlueHorizons actually occurred?
A - Because they are verified offsets (a.k.a. "Verified Emissions Reductions"). See "What are verified emission offsets?" above.
Q -Do I own carbon offsets as a result of my transaction, and can they be used or re-sold for regulatory purposes?
A - No. The very purpose of the transaction is to retire the offsets –thereby preventing their future use or re-sale – not to transfer ownership.
Q -How can I tell that carbon offsets have actually been retired as a result of my transaction?
A - When you place an order on e-BlueHorizons, the following will occur:
- The transaction will immediately be posted to the e-BlueHorizons transaction data base, resulting in a debit to (i.e., a reduction in) the current quantity of offsets available for retirement in the e-BlueHorizons inventory. Each transaction will be identifiable by a unique transaction number.
- Periodically, but no less frequently than monthly, a record of the transaction along with all others that occurred during that period, will be transmitted to the Environmental Resources Trust for entry into the Trust’s own GHG Registry®. Generally you will be able to see the effect of your transaction on the GHG Registry® within 45 days of the date of your transaction. To go to the register, click: ERT GHG Registry.
- e-BlueHorizons will report the transaction to the U.S. Department of Energy program for Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases in a manner consistent with the requirements and procedures of that program. Currently, updates to the U.S. DOE program registry take place annually.
Q -Is my payment to e-BlueHorizons considered a charitable contribution for federal income tax purposes?
A - When you place an order on e-BlueHorizons, the resulting retirement of GHG offsets is "consideration" for the payment you make. It is our understanding that payments for which consideration is received typically do not qualify as charitable contributions. Please consult your own tax advisor.
Q -Who owns e-BlueHorizons, LLC?
A – e-BlueHorizons is owned by CommonWealth Resource Management Corporation, a Massachusetts-based firm that provides environmental consulting services and that develops, owns and operates renewable energy projects. Additional information about CommonWealth Resource Management can be found at www.crmcx.com.
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