Carbon Offsets: An Unearthed Treasure or Pain in the Asset?

It’s like driving a car, attempting to follow a complicated map with no straightforward directions: so frustrating! Then along comes the modern day GPS system that is easy to use; you enter data and it spits out your destination. Easy as pie.

This is the analogy that Tom Kineshanko gave, when describing his company’s carbon offset identification and monetization software platform, a tool called OffsetID. Habitat Carbon Assets, founded two years ago in Vancouver, British Columbia, is on a mission to help Cleantech sellers benefit from carbon offset revenue from the sale of their technology.

Like all of his life’s work– Kineshanko is also involved with several other clean energy nonprofits– Habitat’s overall mission is to decrease carbon emissions quickly, by encouraging more and more businesses to transition over to clean energy fuel.

Boston Celebrates Green on Earth Day

Students from towns across the state of Massachusetts and New Hampshire got permission to take time off school on April 22, 2010 to honor global commitment to the environment. Gathering on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston, hundreds of people enjoyed a free lunch time concert by bands They Might be Giants and Citizen Cope.

The event was hosted by Boston’s independent and solar-powered radio station (WXRV) in honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The choice of venue reflected a new model of dynamic outdoor space created with the intent of bringing Bostonians together to enjoy the city.

A Variety of environmental groups, clean energy organizations, and organic food companies were present giving out t-shirts and samples. I tried some humus with pita in a small container- delicious, healthy, on-the-go snack!


By Catherine Moore, camorous@gmail.com