Yahoo Going Green By Using Carbon Offsets

[nstalk]

An interesting announcement from Yahoo this week:

Yahoo! has announced in greater detail its plans to go carbon neutral this year.

The search engine provider initially revealed its intention to invest in greenhouse gas reduction projects around the world back in April of this year.

Now, in a Yodel Anecdotal blog, Christina Page, director of climate and energy strategy with Yahoo!, unveiled how the company is planning to achieve this.

She stated that Yahoo! intends to offset its 250,000 metric tonne carbon footprint from last year by investing in hydropower in rural Brazil and wind turbines in India.

The firm has partnered with EcoSecurities and CanterCO2, who helped them to source the projects, as well as "vet and execute them".

Ms Page identified Yahoo!'s goals in achieving carbon neutrality as supporting "high-quality carbon offset projects in areas where Yahoo! has a local presence, [finding] uniquely Yahoo! ways to give back to the communities that benefit from [its] projects and [ensuring] that the projects [it] support are verifiable".

Speaking of the reasons for Yahoo!'s decision to take on the wind turbine initiative in India, Ms Page said: "This investment was particularly important to us, as India is one of the most carbon-producing regions in the world."
As the company is growing rapidly in the country, it feels a responsibility to encourage the use of cleaner energy there, she added.

Yahoo! has already invested in a number of environmentally-friendly policies, including recycling, encouraging carpooling and providing public transport subsidies.

Source:
http://www.bigmouthmedia.com/live/articles/yahoo-announces-details-of-carbon-neutral-plan.asp/4182/

 

[tritrain]

Huh, that's cool!

Any investment in alternative fuels, especially wind, solar, and geothermal would be a good thing.

 

[nstalk]

I agree and I expect we'll be seeing much more of this in the near future. Of course this is all voluntary (here in the US) right now, but when cap and trade carbon laws are passed, and they will be, we'll see a big jump in alternative energy investments.

Its been predicted the new clean energy industry will be from 10 to 100 times as big as the internet in coming years.....Now that is huge!

 

[Sabre]

My brother's datacentre was the first datacentre in the UK to do this kind of thing, I think it's a terrific idea.
They're planting trees equivalent to their carbon emissions; anything a company can do to help the environment is always excellent news. Go Yahoo! :tu:

 

[bizwiz]

Nice to see them concerned about the environment.

 

[dpari]

Alternative Fuels

Biodiesel, Electricity, Ethanol, Geothermal, Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Natural Gas, Propane, Solar, etc....It's the future and I am excited to be participating in it.