The resources listed below provide an overview of the Carbon (Climate) Neutral concept, and access "green" calculators & other tools to assist individuals and communities in evaluating carbon offset.

• Additional Search Terms
  

  Carbon Abatement, Carbon Offset, Climate Neutral, Emmissions Trading, Green Tagging

• Carbon Neutral Events: a primer
  

  Published by the WWU Office of Sustainability sustain@wwu.edu

• Alliance to Save Energy
  
  • Federal Energy Efficiency Policy
  • State Energy Efficiency Policy

• Energy Policy Fact Sheets

• Bonneville Environmental Foundation
  

  Provides information on Green Tags.

• Clean-Air Cool-Planet Toolkit for Colleges

• David Suzuki Foundation
  

  Good overview of climate destabilization information.

• Earthfuture Climate & Energy Calculators
  

  Calculate your emissions by choosing a carbon calculator to work out what your personal emissions were for last year.

• Grist: Environmental News & Commentary
  

  This guide provides information & links to "offsetting your carbon emmissions."

• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
  

  Provides facts about global warming, links to carbon offset sites & projects.

• WikiPedia - Carbon Offsets

• An inconvenient truth
  

  Wilson 2W-Video COLL (DVD)QC981.8.G56 I533 2006

  "Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences."

• An inconvenient truth: : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it
  

  QC981.8.G56 G67 2006

• Global warming and social innovation : the challenge of a climate-neutral society
  

  QC981.8.G56 G58147 2002 (Available through Summit)

  "Societies need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 80% in order to counter the risks of climate change. This book envisions a climate neutral society -- one where the output of polluting gases is minimized by social innovations set up in households, by local authorities, through developments in information and communications technologies and dematerialization, and through the shift towards product service systems and emissions trading. The book discusses the possibilities for steering and orchestrating this long term transition towards a climate-friendly society, mapping paths through current dilemmas in climate policy and exploring the legal issues of making this transition." publisher's description

• Use the following databases to locate additional articles:

• Environmental Studies

• Eco Portal
  

  Eco-Portal is a guide to environmentalist views and news on the Web.

Includes only articles which are available through subscription online or in print to the WWU community, or are available in full text free, via the Web.

• Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere: Ecosystem models and atmosheric observations. Ecological Applications v. 10, no.6, 2000. pp.1553-1573

• Carbon offset climate fears. The Ecologist, Feb. 2007, v.37,iss. 1, p. 11.

• Effect of interannual climate variability on carbon storage in Amazonian ecosystems. 17 December 1998, Nature v. 396, p. 664-667

• Global potential for carbon sequestration: Geographical distribution, country risk and policy implications. Benitez, McCallum, et al. Ecological Economics v.60 (3): 572-583 Jan. 15, 2007.

• Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from land use: creating incentives within greenhouse gas emissions trading systems. Climate Change v. 80 (1-2): 173-197, Jan. 2007

• The path forward for biofuels and biomaterials. Jan. 26, 2006, Science, v. 311 no. 5760, p. 484-489.

• The potential for carbon sequestration through reforestation of abandoned tropical agricultural and pasture lands. Silver, LW, R Ostertag & EA Lugo. Restoration Ecology, Dec. 2000. v. 8, no. 4, p.

• Preparing to capture carbon. Schrag, D.P. Feb. 9, 2007. Science v. 315 no. 5813, p. 812-813.

• Retaining forest biomass by reducing logging damage. Sept. 1996, Biotropica, v. 28 no. 3, p. 278-295.
  

  Abstract: " Global concern over rising atmospheric concentraions of carbon dioxied is stimulating development and implementation of policies aimed at reducing net greenhouse gas emmissions by enhancing carbon sinks."

• Satellite-derived estimates of potential carbon sequestration through afforestation of agricultural lands in the United States. Feb. 2007, Climate Change v.80 iss.
  

  Abstract: "An ecosystem carbon model was used to generate new national maps of annual net primary production (NPP), one each for continuous land covers of ‘forest’, ‘crop’, and ‘rangeland’ over the entire U. S. continental area. Direct inputs of satellite “greenness” data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensor into the NASA-CASA carbon model at 8-km spatial resolution were used to estimate spatial variability in monthly NPP and potential biomass accumulation rates in a uniquely detailed manner."

• Eco Portal
  

  Eco-Portal is a guide to environmentalist views and news on the Web.

• Environmental Law Prof Blog

• Environmental Protection Agency - Clean Energy

• State and Local Clean Energy Programs

• WWU Office of Sustainability