Dave R Member Since: December 17, 2008

Offset Statement

Climate Change is an issue of both social and environmental justice. Global warming threatens hundreds of millions of people, and thousands of species. Until we learn to live without fossil fuel, conservation and offsetting is our best short term solution. I also like the idea of saving forests and creating jobs, and helping improve living conditions while encouraging alternative energy use. Please join in!

Projects Supported in 2009

Energy Savings for Low Income Housing, South Africa

This project installs of solar water heaters, compact fluorescent lighting, solar cookers, better fuels and electricity generation for low income households in Welbedacht, KwaZulu-Natal in eastern South Africa. These alternative energy supplies are more cost-effective, reduce grid-electricity consumption in the face of an unreliable, dirty energy supply, and decrease emission of greenhouse gases, while also improving the quality of life for residents.
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Trees for Global Benefit, Uganda

Trees for Global Benefit in Uganda brings opportunity for farmers and small-scale land holders to use their land in a sustainable but profitable manner by creating sustainable forestry and protecting the land for reforestation. Farmer income and technical training offered through the project allows the farmers to protect the land and pursue sustainable agriculture options rather than clear it for intensive farming. The project also encourages biodiversity preservation. Serving as a buffer zone around the Kyambura Wildlife Reserve and several neighboring forest preserves. It protects an extensive equatorial riverine forest, best noted for the resident chimpanzees and an incredibly diverse population of birds, mammals and butterflies.

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