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Earth Day is tomorrow April 22. If you’ve been haphazard in your conservation efforts you may be interested to know that you can do something to ease your conscience help the environment just by opening your wallet. Carbon Offsets are an unregulated market whose providers take your donations and pledge to fund and support various types of projects including reforestation, renewable energy initiatives (solar, wind and hydro power). How do you find a reputable Carbon Offset provider? How much carbon are you emitting each year? Keep reading!

Since the Carbon Offset market is largely unregulated, it can be difficult to separate the legitimate from no-so-legitimate companies that may offer to take you “carbon offset donation”.

How do you compute just how much Carbon Offset you should buy? Do you know what your annual estimate Carbon emissions are? To calculate your estimated carbon emission you could use the page at NativeEnergy which offers both a lifestyle and travel calculator to estimate your emissions (see link below).

The web site - carbonoffsetreview.com - provides information and links to Carbon Offset providers located in USA, Canada, UK and Australia.

Remember - this is a largely unregulated market so please do your research prior to donating

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Carbon Offsets are an interesting way to fund green energy and other renewable energy initiatives. Just be sure to verify that the company soliciting your donation is legitimate and putting your money to productive use.

Link: CarbonOffsetReview.com
Link: Calculate your Carbon Impact
Link: Carbon Offset Wikipedia Entry