Carbon Advice Group Plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Oliver Rothschild as its non-execu
Matthew Sullivan, Founder and CEO of Carbon Advice Group, welcomed the appointment saying:
“We are delighted that Oliver Rothschild has agreed to join Carbon Advice Group Plc as Chairman. We believe that Oliver will bring significant experience and international credibility to the Board of Carbon Advice Group Plc as it rapidly extends its carbon offsetting services and network of environmental entrepreneurs across Europe and the United States”.
Oliver Rothschild said “Carbon Advice Group Plc provides a unique way of engaging individuals and businesses in combating climate change across borders and nationalities. I am pleased to join Carbon Advice Group Plc at such an exciting stage in the company’s growth. I look forward to the exciting challenges of the future and working with my colleagues at Carbon Advice Group Plc to ensure the company provides a quality service to justify the public’s continuing support”.
“We want to motivate the average person in the street to get online, join our global network, build their own carbon offsetting website and get the message across to everyone they know,” continued Carbon Advice Group founder Matthew Sullivan.
“Everyday we see, hear and read about the catastrophic effects of global climate change. We all know we need to do something, and we need to do it now. We believe the appointment of Oliver Rothschild will help Carbon Advice Group Plc get closer to achieving our objective of bringing carbon emissions reduction and offsetting into the mainstream” Sullivan continued.
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Notes to Editors
Founder and principal of Buchler Rothschild Investments, Oliver Rothschild has held several key positions including Chairman of UNICEF (Appeals). He is currently the Ambassador of the Monte Carlo Film Festival (IETFF), Ambassador of the charity Fresh2O and is closely associated with several other charitable bodies and boards. Oliver is the Patron of the St.Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Chairman of Pinewood Media, a Director of Twilight Films Ltd and Chairman the Tripleplay Group.
His track record of successful business development includes Property Investment, ICT and Entertainment, Public Relations, Fine Arts & Antiques. Oliver’s board level experience is equally extensive. He has served as Chairman for an international travel organisation, senior vice president of American General Investments and as director of a London auction House. Principle shareholder in a Fine Arts and Antiques business, Oliver is currently serving as Chairman of AB Entertainments and Fusion Universal, as well as holding directorships with a number of IT, PR and Investment companies.
Fluent in French, German, Spanish and Italian, Oliver Rothschild is actively developing business opportunities throughout the US and Europe including the former Eastern European Block countries, where he is both investing and advising on property and business acquisitions.
About Carbon Advice Group Plc
London-based Carbon Advice Group PLC has created a unique web-based service that enables individuals and businesses to take an active role in combating climate change. The site enables users to directly calculate their carbon footprint and immediately purchase carbon offsets.
The Carbon Advice Group allows anyone to get involved and take an active role in the emerging green economy. The site offers motivated social entrepreneurs a short process to set up their own merchant site to promote and sell carbon offsets as part of the Carbon Advice Group’s network. They are also able to create their own partner downline network.
The Carbon Advice Group’s mission is to create a worldwide network of environmental entrepreneurs by giving them the necessary tools, understanding and motivation for them to bring carbon emission reduction and offsetting into the mainstream and make it a vital part of everyday life. Allowing individuals to promote, purchase or provide carbon offsets, the group offers a compelling answer to the “What can I do?” response to global climate change issues.
Carbon offsetting enables individuals and businesses to compensate for unavoidable emissions by purchasing equivalent greenhouse gas savings. With the Carbon Advice Group, these savings can come from wind power, biomass power, or a renewable energy charitable contribution.
Available carbon credits meet strict international standards. Users who purchase carbon offsets will receive certificates, windscreen permits and window displays so they can proudly demonstrate their environmental credentials.
For more information, visit: www.carbonadvicegroup.com
Carbon Advice Group Plc Launches Carbon E2 TM - Enables Companies To Actively Involve Employees In Their Climate Change Strategy
London based Carbon Advice Group Plc (www.carbonadvicegroup.com) is delighted to announce the launch of Carbon E2 TM, a unique web based service which empowers employees, shareholders and stakeholders to take an active role in deciding where their Company chooses to offset its carbon footprint.
- Matthew Sullivan, Carbon Advice Group CEO, said “Employee Engagement is essential for companies to be able to deliver on their climate change promises. The Carbon Advice Group’s Carbon E2 TM service is designed to offer a simple, highly visual and effective way for a company to engage their employees in their climate change strategy and create a personal sustainability programme.”
Sullivan continued: “Every day we see, hear and read about the catastrophic effects of global climate change. We all know we need to do something, and we need to do it now. What most of us don’t know is what we should do or how we should do it. The Carbon Advice Group Carbon E2 TM service gives companies a simple, cost effective web based tool that invites each and every employee to get actively involved in decisions that were previously made behind closed doors”
“We want employees to become experts on their company’s climate change strategy” Sullivan said. “We want them to be proud of their company’s decision to embrace its corporate social responsibilities and involve their employees in this vital process. In providing the Carbon E2 TM service, Carbon Advice Group is determined to bring the topic of climate change right to the canteen table and make it an important part of everyone’s lives.”
About Carbon E2 TM
Carbon E2 TM, or Carbon Employee Engagement, is a web based service provided by Carbon Advice Group. Once a company has calculated its carbon footprint using the calculators provided by Carbon Advice Group and reduced its carbon emissions as far as possible, it can invite its employees to go online to a unique, branded website provided by Carbon E2 TM where each individual employee can choose to offset their share of the company’s carbon footprint from a range of internationally verified carbon offset projects. This means that the company concerned can ensure that each and every one of their employees, shareholders and stakeholders is actively involved in an important part of their company’s climate change strategy.
About Carbon Advice Group Plc
Carbon Advice Group Plc is an international venture that enables users to create their own personalised carbon calculating and offsetting websites. Available in UK and US versions, the website (www.carbonadvicegroup.com) harnesses the spirit of social entrepreneurship in the drive to be carbon neutral by empowering individuals and businesses to set up their own personalized website where they can provide carbon footprint calculations and carbon offsets to their customers, clients, suppliers and staff and be rewarded financially for their efforts.
Carbon Advice Group Plc’s chairman is Oliver Rothschild. Carbon Advice Group Plc’s board comprises a number of respected, successful individuals who all share the same concern for the environment. Carbon Advice Group Plc’s ethos is to provide innovative solutions available internationally to encourage individuals and businesses to become actively involved with addressing climate change. Carbon Advice Group Plc’s seeks to act as transparently as possible and to provide a world class service, working with companies that are acknowledged leaders in their field.
Every person and business leaves a carbon footprint, most notably through travel and energy consumption. Carbon Advice Group Plc’s website enables people to take responsible action to reduce and offset the unavoidable emissions of their everyday actions. Carbon Advice Group Plc’s Partner Programme lets people take the carbon reduction and offset message to their personal community/network/business and take a lead role in spreading that awareness. In order to address the “what’s in it for me” question, and to stimulate uptake of the Partner Programme, Carbon Advice Group Plc enables its partners to share in the revenues generated from the sale of carbon credits through their partner site.
Carbon offsetting enables individuals and businesses to compensate for unavoidable emissions by purchasing equivalent greenhouse gas savings. Carbon Advice Group Plc’s carbon credits meet strict international standards.
Recurve Bow shooting question ?
I have been shooting for 20 years using a compound bow, but finally decided to try a recurve..I have no recurve experience at all, but this week bought a new recurve to learn traditional shooting….I bought a Fred Bear Grizzly, shooting carbon arrows with 3 vane straight plastic vanes…..I am shooting fine and hitting well for a beginner, but my problem is the arrows keep tearing the bear hair rest off of the shelf….What is the secret to keeping the bear hair taped to the shelf ?? I am putting the cock vane at the 9 o clock position when looking down the arrow….Every few shots the bear hair comes loose….My string nock is set at .5 inch high….Shooting fingers with leather glove….Obviously I could super glue it down, but I doubt that is the correct solution, I mean it should stick well with the 2 face tape that is attached to the bear hair, right ???
Thanks Kenny
Should I Become an Atheist?
I’ve been a Christian all my life, well, all 15 years that is haha, but I’m starting to question whether or not God really exists.
I feel that the idea of an all powerful and all knowing God is a little far fetched. It’s like saying, jump off a 50 foot cliff, you might make it. You might make it, you might not make it. There may be a God, there may not be. If God loves us so much, why would he let us live a life full of ’sin’, and not do anything about it. I feel like this is the work of the Church back in Medieval times.
When you think about it, human society has corruption. In the Middle Ages, wouldn’t it be so easy, for a bunch of clever men, to add on to an idea of a God, and say, if you don’t obey these rules set down by him, he will send you to hell unless you repent for your sins and confess. Well, in such an uneducated world, control like this had to be easy. Plus if they require you to confess to save yourself from eternal suffering, they can find out if anyone wants to undermine the church. Now if you study Europe from back then, you’ll notice that the Catholic Church was ABOVE the King, and everyone else. The King would go to priests to find out about war and the future.
Also, with modern science, carbon dating, fossils, proof of evolution, and recently, ‘brane theory’. Which is the idea that two dimension are incredibly close to each other, but we can’t get to the other, and every trillion years or so, they bump together, and release matter as a radiation from the collision. Then the universe cools and calms down, just like heat, or a ripple in a pool of water, then the dimensions collide again. It makes so much sense to me, and almost perfectly contradicts God.
I know I REALLY dragged this out, but I just need to know whether or not I should become an atheist.
Mold in fishtank?? It isn't algae. Water tests come back fine.?
I have read other questions regarding the mold in a fishtank, and most people say it is algae and not to worry. But it isn’t algae in my case. Here is what has been going on:
-I had a fish whose eye turned white and fuzzy. I administered an anti-fungal, taking the carbon out of my filter and continuing for 7 days as instructed.
-On the 3rd or 4th day I came home and most of my fish had died (3 bottom feeders, 2 female bettas, 3 tiger barbs, 2 rainbow sharks). All I have left is my pleco, male betta, and two others.
-I did a partial water change, and continued medication (as instructed on the bottle)
-I finished the medication and did another partial water change.
-I had my water tested, my nitrates were a little high but nothing alarming. To be expected with all of the previous mentioned problems.
-A day or so later I put an algae chip in my tank for my pleco, since there wasn’t any algae left for it to eat. The next morning the chip had floated to the top of my tank. The day after that it had white fuzzy mold growing on it.
-I took my water to get tested again. All came back fine.
-Last night another fish died and I noticed white fuzzy mold growing on the top inside of the tank.
So I have literally done everything I could possibly have done. The fish store has assisted with products and water tests. My tank had been set up for over 2 years, so it was well established. I keep it clean, and make sure I don’t have too many fish.
Any idea what I am doing wrong, or what could have happened to make mold grow on the inside of my tank? I am planning on going home tonight and cleaning it, partial water change, again. Any suggestions on what to use to kill the mold but not kill the fish (that are left)? Some insight would be nice. The couple of aquarium stores I have called/been to have no idea why I have had this mass die-off and so many problems when my water is coming back clean.
Another note: I have a fresh water/brackish tank.
Should and will President Obama act on these 'Plan B' climate suggestions?
The Presidential Climate Action Project has made suggestions as to how President Obama can use his executive authority to achieve his goal of 17% greenhouse gas emissions cuts by 2020 despite congress failing to pass a climate bill. So far the President has not backed off this committment despite congress’ failure.
1) Create a national roadmap to the clean energy economy for state and local governments to follow. According to the Center for Climate Strategies, if all 50 states adopted a set of 23 energy and climate policies, they could cut emissions 27% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, about nine times deeper than the cuts the President has proposed. At the same time, those 23 policies would boost GDP by 4 billion, save consumers billion and create 2.5 million new jobs.
2) Challenge the United States—currently a pathetic 22nd in energy efficiency among the major economies—to become the world’s most energy-efficient industrial economy by 2035.
3) Push Congress to modify the surface transportation reauthorization bill next year such that it gives more funding for mass transit than building roads. Currently more funding goes to building roads.
4) Stop subsidizing fossil fuels. According to the IEA, phasing out these hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies over the next decade would achieve more than 30% of the cuts in carbon emissions necessary to keep rising atmospheric temperatures at no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
5) Make ecosystem restoration a central strategy in climate mitigation and adaptation.
http://www.climateactionproject.com/plan2010/PCAP-Report_August2010.pdf
What do you think of these suggestions - should and will President Obama act on them?
Person actually cursed by evil?
I am not particularly religious but my father is DEFINITELY cursed by evil. You would not believe the life he lives. He brings it on himself mostly. EVERYTHING in his life is plagued with misfortune and if you are around him, you will get unlucky and sick.
Just to illustrate the unlucky nature that surrounds him, and this is one of THOUSANDS of examples… I bought a very expensive DVD set for his birthday, like 0. I was very happy to have received it in the mail and just as I was about to give it to him, the carbon monoxide/gas detector went off without any apparent reason whatsoever. My cat spends 99% of days outside but today, he for some unknown reason was sitting in the room with the deafening alarm so his hearing is probably permanantly damaged now.
Everything and anything around my father is miserable and deadly and he brings his unluck and misfortune to all around him. Always has been this way. You can even feel the negative presence around him. If he comes within 50 feet of me, I start sneezing, coughing, nose running because my body can sense something not right.
Like I said, I’m not particularly religious or whatever but this man without question has some type of evil plague on him. In fact, because it is so annoying, I decided I am not giving the DVD set as a gift. I will sell it on eBay. My father doesn’t deserve nice things because he is a piece of garbage.
For the first time in my life, I actually hope my dad dies so I don’t have to be around him anymore. He is true human garbage, unworthy of life.
@ Superfuz– As funny as it sounds, you actually CAN develop allergies to other people!!!!!
@ mia– You hit the nail on the head there. He and his brothers were highly abused and constantly beaten as children. I have heard the stories so many times. I guess you are right…… but jeez… I mean, can’t a person "man up" about it?
I really think I might be underestimating my bioload(??) Any thought?
I currently have an up and cycled 15gal tall aquarium (20×10x20 I believe). The floor of the covered with a mixture of river stones, natural-colored sand, and black aquarium rocks (all pet-smart bought). There are also tons of fake plants lining the back of the aquarium (no real plants at this time). My biggest concern is that the tank must be transported to and from my college dorm every year. I have posted a few pictures of the tank here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v51/elves117711/Fishy/100_3986.jpg (there are a few pictures, and the filter isnt dirty -that is loose carbon on the top from the bottom of the package).
Housing: 7 zebra danios (2 male 5 female I believe) ; 1 male betta (veil tail, very very passive) ; 2 mystery snails (1 gold and 1 blue) all of the creatures in the tank for the most part ignore each other. I could not be happier with the set up!
Heater: Constantly on; used to keep the tank at about 80*F (it turns itself on and off)
Air Stone: There is a 12in (??) air stone along the very back of the tank. It helps to move air into the water but is blocked by lots of large plants. The betta does fine in the “current” bc there is literally no current moving through the whole tank bc of all the plants breaking it up.
Filter: A combo lid/light/carbon-biowheel filter. The monster is an Eclipse 1 system by Marineland running 150gal/hr (so, 10x my tank size). You can read up on it here: http://marineland.com/sites/Marineland/products/productdetail.aspx?id=2054&cid=3243&mid=3227
Maintenance: I change the carbon filter about every 2-4 weeks (i.e. whenever it turns black) and perform about 30% water changes every week to every 2 weeks with a gravel vacuum. The replacement water sits overnight and is conditioned before use.
Feeding: The little fellas are fed a combination of Topfin color enhancing pellets and Topfin freeze dried medly and/or Tetra Tropical Crisps… and there is usually one little algae wafer in there for the snails.
The “Rule”: Sure, there is the whole rule about 1in of adult fish per gallon or 3in of adult goldfish per gallon (I have 1.5 in of fish left over by this rule), or some say to use this rule based on the standard size of the aquarium (so mine would be a 10gal for stocking reasons because you would ignore that it is a tall). …but then, if you do regular water changes and have a super filter (like my 10x my tank size one) you have much more room for bioload reasons (I not discussion swimming space in this thread). …but then other people say that the more stuff you have, the less bioload you have (makes some sense bc there would be less water).
Does anyone have experience on this? I have quite a bit of middle swimming room going unused, my fish are content in each other’s company, I do regular water changes biweekly at a minimum (although could probably do it once a month)… do I really only have room for one little 1.5in max fish? As a science major, MY bioload story does not add up. The tank is fully cycled and the filter works wonders on it. I really think I could add more creatures.
Thank you for any comments,
Sarahbeth
Qik - Offsetting our Carbon Print by James Whatley
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Obama set up CXX with Joyce Foundation and Shoreline Bank so he profits billions off Cap and Trade (CXX is Chi?
Obama set up CXX with Joyce Foundation and Shoreline Bank so he profits billions off Cap and Trade (CXX is Chicago Carbon Credit Exchange). So shouldn’t he be disallowed from seeking to extort US businesses and consumers with Cap and Trade, a bill he’s pushing?
Not only is global warming a hoax, but it’s a big extortion money maker for Gore through GIM (Europe’s carbon exchange) and CXX (Chicago’s).
If the wages of sin is death should a tax be applied to that wage?
Should hell have a carbon emissions off set tax
How can airlines help lower an aircraft’s weight at take-off, thereby reducing its carbon footprint?
Would it make sense to weigh each passenger with their luggage,
and to take this total weight into account when setting the price
of that passenger’s ticket along with any additional
(and sometimes passenger-discretionary) needs
such as extra-wide seating or extended leg-room?
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