Green Taxes

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Originally Posted by Jebediah

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The problem with stuff like this is nobody wants to be the first to do it for the reasons you stated. Nobody wants to be the test subject.--snip--

Are you calling me a nobody?! Ballard, my community, leads the way.

We're getting serious about climate cooling in Ballard. The Home Energy and Conservation Guild of Sustainable Ballard invites you to consider NetGreen, a new program aimed at making individuals, households, or businesses become carbon neutral. Here's how: you do an analysis of your annual fossil fuel consumption and translate it into tons of emissions. Those tons are translated into $10 per ton. This equals your "carbon cost" which hopefully gets smaller every year as you conserve energy, drive less, lower your thermostat and so on. But for now, you donate that carbon cost to The Climate Trust, a group of scientists and inventors who are scanning the horizon for new, and immediately applicable projects that can reduce emissions on a bigger scale, having a positive effect on the environment today. Here is an example...at truck stops all across the country, diesel powered 18 wheelers may be idling all night to run the truck’s compressors, to power the driver’s heated cabin, microwave and tv. If the truck stop only had a bit of capital to invest in plug-ins, all that diesel could be electric, and all those diesel carbon emissions would stop. Your donation provides that bit of capital to get a project started, and you become "NetGreen".