Carbon offsets: Get cash for reducing climate changing emissions
Through an American Forest Foundation program, private landowners can exchange carbon-reducing credits from their land for cash.
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Through an American Forest Foundation program, private landowners can exchange carbon-reducing credits from their land for cash.
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For Sara Velazquez and her husband, purchasing the 22 acres behind their rural Pennsylvania home was the start of a lengthy effort to preserve and resuscitate the hilly forestland. The question was how to pay for that work. “A nice, healthy oak forest — that’s what I want,” Velazquez, 28, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in June, sweeping her arm across the property’s shadowed valleys and mixed tree stands. “We have a lot of invasive species in here, so dealing with that is part of our plan over time,” said her husband, Dan Nelson, 37. However, just after they purchased the la...
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