Buy my carbon emissions

February 6th, 2008 by mgkimsal Leave a reply »

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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3 comments

  1. S says:

    Interesting idea

    I assume you drive to work. Since I work from home, logically you should now pay me.

    :)

  2. mgkimsal says:

    But since it was my idea I’m exempt. Or something like that.

  3. MPS says:

    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

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