Are Carbon Offsets merely a means to reduce guilt?
No. Carbon Offsets and Green Tags funded through this program stimulate demand for renewable energy, increase energy efficiency, and provide incentives for renewable energy production. In this manner, we can reduce the unavoidable GHG emissions related to all of our daily purchases (food, heat, electricity, etc) and activities. There is no better way to reduce a persons overall carbon footprint than to simply limit consumption and choose more sustainable products. Understanding that our daily activities and the products we buy contribute to our GHG emissions is an important step to limiting our negative environmental impacts. Funding offsets through this program is a way to take responsibility for pollution that cant be avoided. We encourage everyone to consider how they can lessen their carbon footprint, and then offset the remaining GHG emissions.
