Buying Carbon Offsets · Personal Carbon Credits · Carbon Footprint

	Carbon Offset noun. A donation or other act that aims to remove a certain amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to compensate for the same amount of carbon dioxide that someone or something has added to the atmosphere.
Family / Individual Make simple selections considering your home, car, recycling habits and flights to determine your carbon footprint. Business Make selections considering your office size, number of employees, flights and industry to determine your carbon footprint.

 How Buying Carbon Offsets Can Save the World

Each of us contribute greenhouse gases to the environment every day through the use of our home and cars. Carbon dioxide is one of the main ingredients of our pollution causing global warming. Increased amounts of carbon dioxide affect everything from wildlife to the economy and disrupt the Earth's natural balance.

One of the easiest ways to neutralize the amount of greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide you put into the environment (as you also reduce, reuse and recycle) is to buy carbon offsets. Buying Carbon offsets can help reverse your carbon footprint by investing in clean energy resources, such as wind and solar energy, rather than traditional dirty resources, such as coal.

As industries continue to develop alternative sources of energy and we begin to "live green," it is vitally important for the environment that we make an immediate impact on the reduction of carbon dioxide and purchase carbon offsets to balance the emissions that we don't have the ability to eliminate.