Buy my carbon emissions
February 6, 2008
I was reading up on carbon offsets – buying, selling, etc. – and got to thinking that I could let people pay me to not pollute. I’m not sure I pollute all that much, but certainly between my wife and I we create *something*. So I’ll stop, or reduce my footprint as it were, for a price. Right now I’ll accept paypal – just paypal money to michael@kimsal.com and I’ll drive less, add more CFLs in the house and whatever else I can think of. But then I started thinking that this might be a viable “small scale” business to start, except I’m not sure how you’d police it exactly. But just like prosper.com and some other sites have gotten in to the micro-financing game, I could get in to the micro-carbon-footprint game. So if you see “BuyMyEmissions.com” any time soon, it’s probably me.
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February 6th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Interesting idea
I assume you drive to work. Since I work from home, logically you should now pay me.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
But since it was my idea I’m exempt. Or something like that.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Maybe you could sell your farts to this company: http://www.velocys.com.
They have technology that can turn cow farts (and presumably human farts as well) into fuel.
See http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/12/72285