carbon credits
Posted on | January 20, 2008 | Comments Off
i have been watching a discussion online over the last few days, with keen interest.
a poster named wingding has suggested that rather than purchasing carbon credits to offset the carbon emissions our businesses all inevitably produce….perhaps we should be cutting out the middleman and running our own tree-planting projects.
this idea resonated with me.
i live on stripped ex-dairy farming land, in a lush hot climate, with incredibly fertile red volcanic soil.
we have a handful of acres of grass and re-planting is a very expensive business.
it makes me gnash my teeth to think of the reputed shilling an acre that the settlers in this area received for clearing land.
to replant that same land now costs around $5000 an acre!
there is some rich irony there.
anyway, a couple of thousand dollars per year poured into re-planting this land, would make very good sense in every way.
i’ll get talking to some people in march, when i get back from holiday and find out costs, and see if anyone can calculate what sort of carbon offset one would be looking at with such a project over a few years.
this sort of thing isn’t for everyone, obviously.
you need a chunk of ravaged land to really pull it off, convincingly.
luckily, that is precisely what we have.
