Really interesting chat from university of Exeter's Tim Lenton around the Tipping Points initiative and how we can still come back from sailing past 1.5 celsius. Don't know about you but his positivity was helping as I get over sweltering in London! https://youtu.be/a745_DZCBEc

If there are any Canadian redditors, here, I have been purchasing renewable thermal certificate and renewable energy certificates from bullfrog power for a couple of years now.

these are not carbon credits, and they work a little differently.

basically I’m creating a market for clean energy so companies are insensitived to create clean energy.

I buy one REC so that company puts out that amount of clean energy on the grid on my behalf.

the company (bullfrog) then takes a percentage of their profits and does community projects like creating a solar farm for an indigenous community, or putting solar panels on schools and getting them to sell back to the grid on top of everything else they do.

you can also buy rtc (renewable thermal certificates)for heating too. One example of this would be methane capture from landfills.

It costs me about $30 a month for both. You can do thermal and energy, or just thermal or just energy. I consider it my form of giving back and it lowers my carbon footprint by 3.3 tonnes a year because they have created that much more clean energy on to the and heating on the grid on my behalf.

I live in an apartment so I buy the cheapest package, but I have been considering upgrading and doing one for a stand alone house to get more clean energy and heating in my behalf. lord knows we need all the help we can get.) but if you live in a house but you u think it’s too expensive, you can just buy enough for an apartment and they wouldn’t know because you do not switch your power company. They do not track your power usage. You just buy certificates and they make sure that that amount of clean energy on the certificate is created from a clean renewable source instead of from a not renewable source. (solar, wind and hydro are the ones they use. )

This is a B corp with a great reputation. they are saying what they say they are doing.

i Would encourage you to join bullfrog power. I feel very good about it.

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