Howie Chong

Great news!!  Carbonzero has just been rated one of the top vendors of carbon offsets in Canada.

I’m particularly proud of our rank as the only provider of Made-in-Canada offsets to meet the highest “Strong Performance” category in the report written by the David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute.

Carbonzero has worked hard in ensuring that the offsets that we provide are of the highest possible standard in Canada. Only companies providing Gold Standard offsets ranked higher than us

What many people don’t realize is that offsets most preferred by environmental groups, namely Gold Standard offsets, cannot be sourced from emissions reduction projects based in Canada.  This is because the Gold Standard requires projects to be additional to any previously-announced reduction targets, including those promised by governments when they signed the Kyoto Protocol.  Since Canada made such a commitment by signing the document in 2002, the Gold Standard organization simply won’t certify any Canadian projects at all.

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Here’s an article written by Joseph Jolley in the Guelph Mercury.  (Thanks, Aiden Abram!)

July 07, 2009
JOSEPH JOLLEY

In his book, How to Ruin Your Life, Ben Stein wrote a unique step-by-step guide on how a person can be a total failure. This provided the reader an opportunity to measure up their own life against Ben’s list, see where they stand and make some changes. It should be required reading in every high school.

Inspired by Stein’s approach, I’ve also compiled a helpful step-by-step guide for our activist community. Following these few simple steps will ensure that any activist organization becomes an isolated irrelevancy.
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Through my days at the Sierra Club Canada I’ve gotten to know quite a few environmentalists who have campaigned against the spread of nuclear power.  This recent Facebook exchange occurred after the Ontario government announced a suspension on the development of nuclear power in the province.  It happened to coincide with a recent mishap involving an inflatable promotional stunt gone wrong.

Text and links after the jump.

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