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Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:57 pm
Andy Ross wrote:
Dear Paul
On the issue of domestic tradeable quotas, the FT recently reported you as saying:
“I don’t know anyone in the environmental community that is taking it seriously”. See
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6b60f532-5471-11db-901f-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=9e…
I don’t know if we count as part of the environmental community but we are a small (but growing) network that is taking an adapted version of this idea very seriously. See
http://www.carbonrationing.org.uk
and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cragcentral
Our “community” is made up of 5 (soon to be 6) local voluntary carbon rationing groups (aka CRAGs) spread across the country from Herefordshire to London. Inspired by the ideas laid out in Mayer Hillman and Tina Fawcett’s book “How We Can Save the Planet” and fed up with waiting for the government to act, we are trying to implement at local community group level what we would like our politicians to put in place at a national level. We set ourselves an annual personal carbon budget and agree to pay a penalty on each kg of excess CO2 we emit.
Our plan had been that over-emitting group members would pay their carbon debt into an account held with your bank. (We had perhaps naively assumed that it would be sympathetic to this project!) Each group would then decide on what to do with its carbon fund before setting itself a new carbon budget and penalty for the new carbon year.
Unfortunately, the email I sent to your on-line customer services to inquire about community group bank accounts remains unanswered after almost a month.
Given your alleged statement in the FT and the apparent disinterest shown by your customer services, would we be advised to try the RBS instead?!
Yours sincerely (hoping that you were misquoted)
Andy Ross