Life In The Projects

Carbonfund.org, which is located in Silver Spring, MD, supports a number of carbon-reduction projects, none of which is located in Silver Spring, MD. (Silver Spring has many-- well, a few-- charms, but significant opportunities for, say, reforestation are not among them).

What that means is we have to travel to check up on our projects. This week, Russell is making the trek to Louisiana to visit the Tensas River Valley Reforestation Project. As a kind of preliminary to his report, I'll be posting some photos from a trip former Carbonfund.org staffer Sean made to Paso Pacifico's Return to Forest Project in Nicaragua.

The inaugural photo is of one of the colorful trucks used to haul trees-- in this case, about 4000 of the little guys-- up into the hills. As part of the project spec, Paso Pacifico measured every liter of fuel used by the trucks, calculated the emissions from burning that fuel, and subtracted the result from the total tons reduced by the project.

Look for more photos and a more detailed report on Sean's trip in the near future on our website.

(Photo by Sean Carney for Carbonfund.org)