Sarah Otterstrom from Paso Pacifico alerted us to a group of high school students in North Carolina who had contacted her after researching ways to combat climate change. They had decided on carbon offsets-- reforestation, specifically, as it is the only way to address carbon already in the atmosphere.
In their words:
"We chose to focus on more offsetting the existing carbon emissions rather than simply reducing our production. Our research presented us with a couple of options for offset, and the one that we liked the most was the idea of reforestation...We knew we wanted to have some kind of public event, not only to raise money for the project in Nicaragua but also to inform the public about the dangers of carbon effects, so that is when we decided to have a bake sale. We spent the whole day prior to the sale making about 300 homemade tree shaped cookies with green icing and bagging green and white popcorn to sell at our stand."
The students raised about $300, offsetting 54.5 tons of CO2 or 120,251 lbs. It's great to see grass roots efforts like this. (If we had had little more time, perhaps we could have sent them a bag of CarbonFree sugar to use in the cookies!)
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