shannon |
Hey Guys, I hate to intrude with this thought, but people are beginning to contact us about the potential for an actual market for personal carbon emissions reduction trading. It also seems that we are getting a lot of signups from people who are actually not just interested in the issue personally, though they sign up as CRAG members. For example, they represent companies that make energy saving devices, sell offsets, or are members of the media. I have some questions to begin some discussions:
Are we ready to begin discussions about personal offset trading? How much are we willing to discuss at this point? Do we want to talk about an actual market, certification issues, etc?
I thought I was offering to help get a CRAG started and discovered that the person interested in organizing it worked for a carbon offset firm. I have had it happen several times that I signed someone up for my CRAG only to learn that they are a newspaper reporter. And I have had people sign up as Craggers who are interested in promoting products. How should we address these types of situations? Do we want people with a corporate motive signed up as Craggers? If not, do we want them to sign up some other way? How can we screen them?
I think we need to address these questions.
doers and watchers
john ackers
I hope that David will change the user registration to distinguish between those want to join a CRAG and those that are simply subscribing for email updates from a particular local group (see thread).
CRAGgers are the people that turn up to the meetings and agree to a set of rules. Islington and Hackney CRAG has ten members, we all must update our footprints quarterly, we all must turn up to 4 meetings a year and we settle every six months. The uncommitted identify themselves very quickly. It does not really matter if the individuals are journalists or they run Exxon as long as they are fully engaged and it is hard to fake this. We still let journalists and researchers come to meetings. People have discussed online CRAGs but i think it would be hard to create a comparable supportive online community and then there is the question of trust when it comes to settlement.
Are we ready to begin discussions about personal offset trading? I hope we never talk about offset trading. A lot of people are still missing the point; 250 millions Americans, 60 million Brits cannot all offset.