I am writing from Denver and the site of the 2006 Greenbuild Conference.  The United States Green Building Council (USGBC) holds an annual conference that has grown exponentially over the last five years.  Started 13 years ago the USGBC is the leader in promoting sustainable design and construction.  This year there was considerable talk about the catastrophic climate change that is in our near future.  Bill McDonough spoke in the opening plenary and quite honestly motivated me to pursue our offset and sustainable projects with greater ambition.  He posed two questions to close his speech:

1) If not us, who?

2) If not now, when?

This call to action is so clear, it would be impossible to not react.  The One Ton CO2 Project is only the start for us.   Our goal for this first project is to make CO2 offsets something anyone can do, but moreover it is about bringing awareness to everyone of the serious problem we will all be confronted by during our generation, the accumulation of green house gas and the resultant climate change.
“The difference between catastrophe and hope is education.”

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