ClearSky Climate Solutions News Archives - 2008
December 2008, ClearSky Climate Solutions to be featured on 21st Century Business Television on CNBC & Fox Business Network: ClearSky will be appearing on a TV program to explain how our company works and the services we can provide to our clients. You can read the press release from Emailwire.com, and stay tuned for more information and showtimes.
December 2008, Missoula, MT, USA: ClearSky Climate Solutions has partnered with the Sustainable Business Council of Missoula (SBC) to present the first large climate-neutral event in Missoula. The 2008 Wild & Scenic Film Festival, held December 4th at the Wilma Theater in Missoula, is the largest environmental film festival in North America. The festival brings a community together around local environmental issues and offers filmgoers an immediate way to take action. ClearSky estimated greenhouse gas emissions due to on-site energy use and car travel for the event, and the SBC purchased ClearSky offsets to mitigate these impacts. ClearSky was honored to be a part of this event, and we look forward to helping with more climate-neutral events in 2009!
October 2008, Las Vegas, NV: The CES Blogger Bus is now green with ClearSky Climate Solutions. ClearSky Climate Solutions is teaming up with the Parnassus Group, a social media consulting firm, to green some of the side events of the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. The Parnassus Group organizes special events for bloggers covering the event, including a charter bus trip to and from the show. They've taken action to make this trip completely climate neutral, with our help. To read more about the event and ClearSky's involvement, click here.
June 2008, Carbon Offsets Daily: Keegan Eisenstadt, CEO of ClearSky Climate Solutions, was recently interviewed by Carbon Offsets Daily, an online news source dedicated to climate change topics and carbon markets. Mr. Eisenstadt was asked to respond to the following question: “When do you think the domestic voluntary carbon market will become a compliance market and how will that change affect the environment?” To read Keegan’s full response, please click here.
Additionally, ClearSky was added to the list of Carbon Offset Retailers on Carbon Offsets Daily. Click here to see the entire list.
March & April 2008, El Salvador and Indonesia: ClearSky members went to El Salvador and Indonesia to look at the possibilities of designing land based carbon mitigation projects. These projects were considered in the context of larger, ongoing rural development projects to generate revenue and interest to catalyze improved local natural resources management. The proposed projects were considered as mechanisms decentralize the majority of both the revenue and the responsibilities back to the local, village level.
March 2008, Missoula, MT: ClearSky Climate Solutions, LLC is launched. ClearSky Climate Solutions, LLC (ClearSky) is a new global climate change enterprise, specializing in developing high-quality GHG emissions reduction projects, consulting to partner organizations to reduce their carbon footprints, and mitigating emissions with carbon credit offsets. ClearSky’s history is in designing tropical forestry projects for the purpose of generating high-quality tVERs and tCERs for voluntary and regulatory CO2 markets. ClearSky has purchased and incorporated CO2OL-USA as a division, and retains ownership of, and the rights to market, the tVERs generated through the duration of CO2OL-USA projects. Additionally, ClearSky is expanding its focus to include sectors such as agriculture, energy efficiency, methane capture, and other avoided emissions activities. ClearSky services have also grown to include carbon credit sales to individuals, consulting for individuals and organizations, and brokering carbon credit transactions.
This is an exciting time at ClearSky, so stay tuned for future updates.
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