| Holistic Management International offers the public a a free Personal Carbon Impact Calculator card that helps people determine and offset their ecological effects on the planet. The 9" x 4" card carries a simple chart that translates individual impacts on global warming into dollars and cents, using the same principle that the Climate Exchange industry uses in paying carbon credits to farmers. Reviewing the chart, people can calculate their personal carbon impacts, and then decide whether or not to use the dollar value of their impacts to support alternative energy projects.
Non-Profit Offers Public Free Personal Carbon Impact Calculator
"A solution to global warming is right under our feet and we can make it personal," says Peter Holter, COO of Holistic Management International (HMI). The non-profit uses natural methods to restore land, improve soil health, reverse desertification, and improve biodiversity - which greatly increase the soil's ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it as organic matter. 30 million acres worldwide are currently being managed holistically. "Because we know that carbon sequestration makes a positive impact on global climate change, we want to help people who are looking for realistic ways they can to combat global warming," Holter adds. "So we're offering them a simple, convenient tool that they can easily use in their own homes and offices."
The tool is a free Personal Carbon Impact Calculator, a 9" x 4" card that helps people determine and offset their ecological effects on the planet. The card carries a simple chart that translates individual impacts on global warming into dollars and cents, using the same principle that the Climate Exchange industry uses in paying carbon credits to farmers.
"Reviewing the chart, people can calculate their personal carbon impacts, and then decide whether or not to use the dollar value of their impacts to support alternative energy projects." Holter says.
People interested in obtaining the free Personal Carbon Impact Calculator card may call HMI at (505) 842-5252 or visit the website, www.holisticmanagement.org.
Holter suggests six other actions people can take to combat global warming:
- Vote with your dollars. Invest in products and companies that conserve resources (energy efficient appliances, on-demand water heaters, photovoltaics, etc.).
- Support low-tech solutions for removing carbon from the air and high-tech solutions for keeping new carbon out.
- Buy locally grown, organic produce and grass-fed meat and dairy, whose producers avoid using chemicals that hurt land, animals and humans.
- Increase your ecological literacy. Learn how we can develop symbiotic relationships with Nature so all may thrive.
- Learn additional ways to reduce your ecological footprint at www.ecologicalfootprint.org.
- Support HMI's efforts to educate others about using animals to improve land health and sequester carbon.
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