California's cap-and-trade program incorporates the use of carbon offsets generated from the destruction of ozone depleting substances (ODS) to help the state meet its goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While you may not be familiar with the term ozone depleting substances, chances are that these substances can be found...

Trees help address climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing carbon in tree roots, trunks, and branches. Urban forests provide additional positive environmental, health and community benefits. Trees help reduce energy usage in urban areas by shading buildings and paved surfaces. They improve local air quality,...

As athletes go for Olympic gold, the global community wins with Olympic green.
 
The sports world is embracing a new form of exemplary sportsmanship -- environmental stewardship. The same ethos of fairness, respect and fellowship that has long been fundamental in athletics is being extended from treating...

When the California cap-and-trade program fully launches on January 1, 2013, it will create the second largest carbon market in the world. While cap-and-trade may be the most visible and perhaps most controversial part of California's climate strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels...