Highlighting a Carbon Credit Dealer: LiveNeutral

LiveNeutral is a carbon credit dealer with a commitment to combating global warming. LiveNeutral was created educate people about and promote action against the crisis of greenhouse gas emissions. Their goal is to make it easy for individuals and organizations to reduce their carbon emissions both directly (by changing practices) and indirectly (by purchasing carbon credits).

How does it work? EnviroCitizen.org discovered that when you neutralize your carbon emissions through LiveNeutral, you are supporting projects that reduce emissions. For every ton of carbon credits that LiveNeutral sells, they donate $0.25 to the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute's Scholarship Fund, which helps people in developing countries to afford training so that they can effectively manage greenhouse gas emissions in their country.

LiveNeutral offers three effective carbon emissions calculators to help customers determine their carbon footprint:

• The Drive Neutral CO2 (carbon dioxide) Calculator
• The Fly Neutral CO2 Calculator
• The Home Neutral CO2 Calculator.
  
  Each calculator yields a number that estimates your personal carbon footprint as it pertains to your transportation, both in your personal vehicle and when you fly, as well as your household.
  
  LiveNeutral also offers several tips on how to reduce your carbon emissions. One of the tips is a seemingly simple yet surprisingly effective step that you can take to shrink your carbon footprint. They suggest sharing everything, from tents and ladders to books. Some communities have community tool sheds. Businesses are even beginning to offer book exchanges. The idea behind sharing is simple. If you share something instead of buying something new, you prevent greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere.
  
  LiveNeutral also suggests getting a new air conditioning filter to increase the efficiency of your air conditioning system. Another idea that they suggest is to "go on a tree spree". By planting trees (or even just one tree), you are helping to remove carbon from the air and prevent soil erosion. Of course, they suggest that you plant trees that are native to your area so that they don't require as much water to survive.
  
  LiveNeutral is a grassroots organization founded in the summer of 2005. It began as a community enterprise of San Francisco, California's Presidio School of Management. It is operated by ClimateCHECK and the co-founders of the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute. LiveNeutral is one of the few climate credit businesses that also educate its customers in addition to providing carbon offset credits. LiveNeutral believes that their venture enables their customers to be activists in the realms of climate change and renewable energy. They collaborate with companies and organizations throughout the country, such as KQED, Colorado University, the University of Florida, Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young and DuPont.
  
  If you want to take steps to reduce your carbon footprint, LiveNeutral offers you the tools and knowledge necessary to make those changes. EnviroCitizen.org wants to assure you that the carbon credits that LiveNeutral sells are not overpriced. To neutralize the carbon emissions of an average drive, LiveNeutral charges about $60 for one year of driving which is only about $0.16 per day! LiveNeutral provides an economical, effective way in which you can begin to reduce your carbon footprint NOW.