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Our nonprofit energy efficiency & renewable energy business of 170 people adopted a %u201Cbig hairy audacious goal%u201D (BHAG) to offset our carbon footprint by 10,000-fold in 20 years! By 2027, we%u2019ll be avoiding 10,000 pounds of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for every pound we contribute, and we'll be avoiding 20 million tons annually of GHG emissions by 2027. We%u2019re not just as a business, but we%u2019re a community, so in calculating our carbon footprint, we included our personal & household impacts. The personal decisions we make %u2013 the foods we eat, where we go on vacation, the cars we drive - have great impacts. We%u2019ll use a toolkit to achieve our BHAG, including software to track emissions & progress, social networking (contests, brown-bag discussions) & incentives from the business to inspire & motivate us, and we'll explore other ideas like internal carbon trading. We think that acting as a community is a powerful model that can work and that we%u2019d love to share with other businesses!
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Mary Alice Belov | Posted: 1 April 2009
We live in Goldendale, Washington. Here and the Oregon side of the Columbia River are becoming windmill forests. I am not sure how this affects birds, but we are talking hundreds of windmills. Unfortunately, instead of being made here where there is very high unemployment, these babies are being imported from Denmark. Where my brother lives near Fort Madison, IA, Seimens is building the windmills. It is a German company, but the workers are American.
Dominick Mastroserio | Posted: 1 April 2009
magiart1:
Like the idea of initiating a grassroots initiation to awareness of Earth's inscrutable and incredible consciousness...not human consciousness but one which has so vast and unfathomable an intelligence that it can grow itself a nature and all within it - including we humans!
Diane Hess | Posted: 1 April 2009
In Trinidad, Colorado, a citizen-action group called ReGroup just held a successful e-fair to kick-off an ongoing and responsible electronics recycling program. ReGroup is also working on educational projects in the schools and community-wide, programs for other recyclables, and collaborations with many other groups in town. ReGroup would be interested in spreading the word about your toolkit in our educational programs. Contact: Diane Hess, writer@hessarts.com.
Roberto Hodge | Posted: 1 April 2009
I'm from Oregon. I am happy to be part of a transnational idea! If you haven't read Thomas Friedman's "Hot, Flat and Crowded" you will find it a very good read. Up to date and informative.
Brendan Gallivan | Posted: 1 April 2009
way to take the lead VEIC!
cindy freeman | Posted: 1 April 2009
let's get started
Colin Pape | Posted: 1 April 2009
hostory will show this to be the most impending issue of our time
Kitty Lady Kemp | Posted: 1 April 2009
The only bad carbon using item I have left is my car which only gets 16 - 17 mPG. I cannot aford another car as I live on SS. I dry clothes on the clothesline, grow a garden, buy local when posssible, take short showers.
George Tolleson | Posted: 1 April 2009
Could work
Mary McHugh | Posted: 1 April 2009
Why not?
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