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What's Happening from Environmental Building News
April 1, 2008
Carbon Offsets Get Oversight
Can you construct or operate a building without emitting greenhouse gases? Probably not, but the voluntary carbon-offset market offers an alternative: pay a fee to finance reductions of greenhouse gases or sequestration of atmospheric carbon, elsewhere. In 2007, the Aldo Leopold Legacy Center earned an innovation point in LEED on its way to a Platinum rating for achieving carbon neutrality with the help of carbon offsets. The project offsets emissions from its energy use with carbon sequestration from improved forest management nearby....
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