Cool Earth
Cool Earth is a new charity aiming at preserving the rainforest by selling it - to you and me.
An Acre is going for around £70-£100.
Interesting - I’m often banging on about wishing to reduce my carbon footprint - I wonder how much that would reduce it by? Nothing at all? A fixed ‘one off’ amount? Or something I can continue to count year by year? Either way, a good idea.
More from an article at The Register or at the Cool Earth Website.
June 5th, 2007 at 11:05 am
This *is* a nice idea.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:57 am
This sound neat, but the important question with ownership is how it’s enforced. So a guy in Britain has a piece of paper saying he owns the land - how will that prevent somebody from using/abusing it anyway? Otherwise it’s as meaningful as selling land on Mars.
(if the site wasn’t down/inaccessible/slashdotted I might already have the answer)
June 6th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I think you must sign over all of your significant rights to cool earth.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Well yes, they don’t want people using this as a way of buying property to build on