Offsetters in the news

  • Olympic organizers pick B.C. partner to offset carbon emissions

    Deal is first of a kind for Olympics and Paralympics

    Pique Magazine, June 11 2009, By Clare Ogilvie

    Olympic organizers have partnered with B.C.-based Offsetters to make the 2010 Games carbon neutral.The deal makes the 2010 Winter Games the first in history to have an Official Supplier of Carbon Offsets.

    John Furlong, chief executive officer for the 2010 Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC), called it "a crucial step forward to meeting our goal to make the 2010 Winter Games as environmentally responsible as possible.

    http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/pique/index.php?cat=News&content=Oly+carbon+offset+1624
  • B.C. company hooks up with Vanoc as official supplier of carbon offsets

    Projects will reduce at least 110,000 tonnes of emissions

    Vancouver Sun - By Bruce Constantineau, June 9, 2009

    The Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee has announced an estimated $5-million partnership with B.C.-based carbon-offset firm Offsetters Clean Technology to help it stage a carbon-neutral Olympics next year.

    The new sponsorship makes the 2010 Winter Games the first in Games history to have an official supplier of carbon offsets.

    http://www.vancouversun.com/Travel/company+hooks+with+Vanoc+official+supplier+carbon+offsets/1676717/story.html
  • Deal signed to stage greenest Games in history

    Globe and Mail - June 4, 2009 - ROD MICKLEBURGH

    On British Columbia's officially proclaimed Clean Air Day, as a smog alert blanketed the hazy Fraser Valley, organizers of the 2010 Winter Games unveiled the most ambitious program to reduce carbon emissions in Olympic history.

    For the first time, indicative of the growing importance of the environment at a time of global climate change, an Olympics now has a carbon offsetter as an official sponsor, with a goal of staging a carbon-neutral Games that goes well beyond the green goalposts of any previous Olympics.

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/deal-signed-to-stage-greenest-games-in-history/article1168031/
  • Vancouver Olympic organizers sign carbon-neutral deal to offset emissions

    CBCNews.ca - Wednesday, June 3, 2009 - The Canadian Press

    Organizers are billing the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics as carbon neutral, but critics say a sponsorship deal that will see millions of dollars spent on carbon offsets doesn't include more than half of the estimated emissions associated with playing host to the Games.

    http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/06/03/bc-olympics-carbon-neutral.html
  • VANOC announces green achievements
    CTVOlympics.ca - June 3, 2009 - Dean Campbell

    VANOC has announced a sponsorship with the Vancouver-based company Offsetters to offset the entire projected carbon emissions of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.

    Offsetters will provide a portfolio of projects that are designed to counter 110,000 tonnes of carbon emissions expected to be produced by the Games at a value of approximately $5 million.

    http://www.ctvolympics.ca/environment/news/newsid=11437.html?cid=rssctv
  • Vanoc reaches deal to help stage carbon-neutral Games

    The Vancouver Sun - June 3, 2009 - Canwest News Service

    The Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee has announced an estimated $5-million partnership with B.C.-based carbon offset firm Offsetters Clean Technology to help it stage a carbon-neutral Olympics next year.

  • Human powered holidays - Three kinds of trips fuelled by you tread lightly on the earth

    By Lisa Monforton, CanwestNews Service, April 22, 2009

    Adventurers have punished their minds and bodies on human-powered odysseys for centuries. Every week, it seems another modern-day Thor Heyerdahl or Jacques Cousteau embarks on a feat that most of us can’t even fathom, and often for the fame that comes with success.

    But Vancouverite Julie Angus’s expedition wasn’t an ego trip, nor was it to get into the record books, or satisfy her adventurous side.

  • Even in a recession, it's worth being green

    ANDREA SOUTHCOTT, Globe and Mail, April 13, 2009

    Don't let tough times kill your green story.

    Canadian consumers continue to care about the environment – but, if they're having trouble making ends meet, they may not be able to spend that little bit extra to purchase green products. For marketers, the challenge is to balance their bottom line with practical ‘green' actions that keep their sustainability vision alive.

    http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090409.wstrategy_southcott13/BNStory/robAtWork/home
  • University aims to create champions of business and social good

    UBC Sauder Business School opens Centre for Sustainability and Social Innovation

    Tuesday March 31 2009 -- Camille Jensen, Axiom News

    Understanding that every good idea also needs good management, the Sauder School of Business has developed a program that will apply business acumen to social needs.

    The Centre for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CSSI), launched one-year ago at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) business school, aims to fuse the development and training of managers with research and the incubation of social enterprises.

  • Creating a better world with business skills - Creating a better world with business skills

    MICHAEL RYVAL, The Globe and Mail - March 19, 2009

    The Centre for Sustainability and Social Innovation at the Sauder School of Business in B.C. asks: 'How can we make a difference?'

    Freshly graduated from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, and eager to get involved in green technologies, Colin O'Leary landed a six-month stint in 2008 with a start-up company called Nyfound Energy.

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090319.SRMBACSSI19/TPStory/?query=james+tansey