by friendociate » 08 Mar 2023, 12:46 Systemic change
starts with you
Ryan George has invited you to Wren! Join them by calculating and offsetting your carbon footprint.
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Ryan George: Subscribe and Wren will plant 10 extra trees. ->
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Join the 16,475 people who signed up this month!
I click "Get started," and a 'pop-up island' tells me,
It sounds too good to be true, but...If you subscribe to offset your carbon footprint today, your first month is free.
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Wren members are sponsoring people like you to join them in offsetting CO2.
Then it calculates my footprint---asking what country I live in, my ZIP code, whether I'm managing a household- or individual 'footprint,' how many cars I use, how many short flights- & long flights-I take each year, my diet-type (how much meat, etc.), whether I have any pets, how I travel around the city (when I need to), questions about my utilities (electric, renewable, natural gas).
And they ask for my email to view my results---18.3 tons of CO2, which equals 4 cows burping-, 15 trees cut down-, 45,211 miles driven-, 14 flights from LA to Paris-, 50 percent of a humpback whale's weight-, 10,066 burgers eaten-, 590 square feet of ice melted- or 15 trees cut down-per year.
And after a lot of comparison between my 'footprint' and the average, they tell me I can offset my carbon footprint by funding "world-class climate solutions" ("carbon removal, climate policy, conservation ...)
- This month, they're using footprint-offsets to fund
- technology for Clean Cooking-Fuel for Refugees - Mandulis provides clean burning fuel and cookstoves for refugees in Uganda. It has the potential to provide clean cooking fuel for over 1 million refugees—and prevent thousands of acres of deforestation each year.
- working on a policy for a Clean Air Task Force - Clean Air Taskforce is a climate policy group focused on catalyzing climate solutions that have the potential to scale to reverse climate change. Their mission is to decarbonize the global energy system to end the climate crisis.
They push for changes in technologies and policies needed to get to a zero-emissions, high-energy planet at an affordable cost. They push for policies that promote clean energy, zero-carbon fuels, and decarbonize entire industries– including construction and the energy grid.
Clean Air Taskforce was founded over 25 years ago, and is one of the most respected, pragmatic, and scientifically driven climate policy groups in the world today. - Tech-enabled Rainforest Protection - Rainforest Foundation US has pioneered a monitoring program that uses satellite imágenes, drone footage, and video tecnología to rápidamente detect, report, and stop illegal deforestación. By supporting this project you are funding rainforest monitoring tools for Indigenous Amazonians.
This project helps the indigenous Ticuna community across several villages in the Peruvian Amazon. After a successful pilot program in a similar community, the monitors trained by Selva tropical Foundation US became official forest rangers and the community was accepted into a gobierno program that pays them to protect their forest.
Annually, tropical forests absorb 1.4 billion metric tons of dióxido de carbono from the atmosphere. Indigenous forests absorb approximately 25% of this. If we continue to scale this model, we can protect a carbon sink of 375 million metric tons per year. This is the most effective model the Wren team has seen to prevent deforestation in tropical rainforest. - Technology to battle Mineral Weathering in Scotland - The organization behind this project, The Future Forest Company, was formed to sequester as much carbon as possible in forest land. They buy degraded, unloved land and re-forest and restore it back to health using agroforestry methods including rotational grazing of livestock and recycling forest waste into biochar. Then, they expand the carbon sequestration potential of the forest through a cutting-edge technique called enhanced mineral weathering.
Enhanced mineral weathering is a promising carbon removal technique, and Wren members are funding an early pilot study to remove carbon. If it lives up to its potential, enhanced mineral weathering could eventually sequester millions of tons of CO2 every year. - the Carbon180 policy-project - Carbon180 is a new breed of climate-focused NGO on a mission to fundamentally rethink carbon. They work with leading scientists, businesses, and policymakers to build a world that removes more carbon than it emits.
While it is critical to reduce emissions, the planet's climate goals can only be met by removing the carbon that already exists in our atmosphere. Carbon180's mission is to create a world where climate change is halted and economic prosperity is driven by innovative farmers, foresters and businesses pulling carbon from the sky.
Carbon 180 founded by members of the Centre for Carbon Removal at UC Berkeley in 2015, and since then have promoted policies that have raised tens of millions of dollars for cutting edge carbon removal techniques. - Biochar Technology in California - This project removes flammable, dead wood from California's forests to stop wildfires– then turns the wood into biochar, a stable form of carbon that persists for thousands of years.
Normally, this dead wood biomass would be burned to ash, which releases all the plant carbon into the atmosphere as CO2. But this project is different. Instead of burning biomass to ash, this project heats up biomass and turns it into biochar. This biochar keeps almost all the carbon sequestered by old California redwoods locked up for thousands more years.
The biochar is then mixed with compost and sold to local farmers, who use it as a natural fertilizer to help their crops grow.
Biochar is listed as one of the top five natural climate change solutions in the 2019 IPCC report, and this project has the potential to sequester hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 every year. - Refrigerant Destruction Technology - This project permanently destroys harmful chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere—thereby fighting global warming, and helping to restore the planet's ozone layer.
Refrigerants (classified as ozone-depleting substances) are chemicals that degrade our planet’s ozone layer, which protects the earth from ultraviolet radiation. Refrigerants are also potent greenhouse gases that cause global warming thousands of times faster than CO2.
By preventing these refrigerants from entering the atmosphere, this project restores the ozone layer—reducing the global risk of skin cancer—while fighting climate change in the process.
Anyway, are YOU doing anything to limit- or offset your carbon footprint?
