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Industries far and wide, unaccustomed to the prospect of self-regulation, scrambled to put their green credentials on display: airlines like Delta and Quantas now offer carbon-offsets to customers; car companies are releasing wave upon wave of hybrid and ethanol-friendly vehicles; even Wal-Mart is hawking organic produce.
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Fiji has been lambasted for flying water around the world (the company carbon-offsets).
Green, or Greenwash? 2008
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"And we encourage our members and guests to join in that effort, such as by car-pooling, using hybrid-vehicles and, for long-distance travelers to Washington, buying carbon-offsets."
Dallas Blog 2010
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In other words, a carbon-offsets program may simply allow the sinner to continue in their unrepentant ways and unredeemed life.
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In other words, a carbon-offsets program may simply allow the sinner to continue in their unrepentant ways and unredeemed life.
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LONDON - (Business Wire) Intertek, the leading international provider of quality and safety services, today launched a programme to offer its clients carbon-offsets for its auditing services in China.
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In other words, a carbon-offsets program may simply allow the sinner to continue in their unrepentant ways and unredeemed life.
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So an analogy comparing indulgences to carbon-offsets would be incorrect.
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So an analogy comparing indulgences to carbon-offsets would be incorrect.
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If early interest is any indication, one of Bright Neighbor's more promising ventures will be in the carbon-offsets business, using what White calls "an open accounting system."
GOOD Nikhil Swaminathan 2010
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