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turning carbon into gold
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Mother Jones
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July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Foundation for National Progress Jul/Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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AN INCONVENIENT POOP
Noting that contributing to global warming would be "ironic, not to mention wrong," the producers of An Inconvenient Truth announced in June 2006 that they had given $496.80 to NativeEnergy, a well-regarded carbonoffset company. The firm, in turn, said the movie was providing "critical revenues" to several renewable-energy projects, including a Pennsylvania dairy farm that planned to capture and burn the methane emitted by its cow manure. Such efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, said one of the film's producers, "would likely not happen without these kinds of investments."
NativeEnergy says that by agreeing to buy the dairy's methane reductions for 20 years, it ...
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