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CPKC provides free carbon inventories and offsetting capability for individuals and businesses.

08/04/2023

Every purchase has a hidden cost that typically isn't included in the price. This cost is pushed onto the commons in the form of resourece use, pollution, and carbon emissions. Take responsibility for the impact of your lifestyle while supporting local projects for as little as $15/month. Book a free carbon inventory today and sleep easy knowing you're doing your part!

08/02/2023

CPCK supports Protecting Grasslands in Colorado. Between 2008 - 2012, over 5 million acres of grasslands were converted into farmland in the North American Great Plains. This releases organic carbon from the soil into the air. The Heartland Ranch Phase 1 project protects 1,895 acres of prairie with a conservation easement, and it’s managed as a wildlife refuge for American bison, elk, ferret, beaver, and more. We purchased 10 tons from this project, which is verified through the Climate Action Reserve registry.

07/30/2023

We believe that the future is bioregional and localism is how we regenerate the health of where we live. While many other companies that sell offsets are adopting traditional methods of being online-only, we're investing the time to sit down with every one of our members for their carbon inventory. In doing this, we're building a local movement centered on community and climate action right here in KC. How do we grow? Primarily through word of mouth - check it out!

07/28/2023

About $1 trillion of food is dumped into landfills each year…but hey, pocket change, right?

Composting food waste alone could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 5 percent and remove half of the impact of food waste.

By harnessing aerobic fermentation, composting reduces methane emissions and actually puts carbon back into the soil.
It’s not that much effort once you’ve set it up. The microbes are doing all the work.

You can do it yourself.

Or you can have someone else do it, we recommend our friends over at Missouri Organic Recycling

07/26/2023

Jan Faidley is a saxophonist and music instructor, and she serves on the Roeland Park City Council. Jan’s is the 10th carbon positive household:

"When I carry my glass recycling to the curb I'm always shocked at just how heavy it is. And there's plastic on everything. Despite being a climate advocate I know there's more I can do at home. Being carbon positive helps address the frustration and anxiety I feel about the climate crisis. I recommended four colleagues to join me!"

07/25/2023

How does a Carbon Offset work? Like any market, the carbon market is based on supply and demand. Households and businesses want to donate money to reduce carbon emissions. This is measured in tons, so you could say they want to buy negative tons of carbon.

Step 1

Creating a carbon offset requires a lot of technical knowledge and expertise. The Project Developer uses this knowledge and expertise to write a detailed project description document - sometimes over 100 pages long - detailing the science behind the carbon project. The Project Developer is often a consultant brought in by the Project Owner to complete the carbon project.

Step 2

The Project Owner is often someone like a landowner that takes responsibility for the project over decades or even a century. They work with the Project Developer to implement a project, like planting trees, and submit the project description document to the Registry.

Step 3

The registry is often an international nonprofit - like Verra, Gold Standard, or American Carbon Registry - that maintains trust in the entire carbon market. How? They develop methodologies with input from the public describing how to implement carbon projects.

They evaluate specific project description documents and determine whether or not the project meets their criteria. They also maintain a public registry of all the carbon offsets issued. If the project meets their criteria then they issue carbon offsets to the Project Owner and Project Developer. Each offset represents one ton of CO2e avoided or removed from the atmosphere.

Step 4

The Project Owner and Project Developer often work with a Broker. This is an organization that has relationships with Buyers like large companies, small businesses, or households. The Broker reduces risk for the project and secures financing to make the whole process work.

Step 5

Finally, the Buyer purchases an offset. Some purchase offsets to trade like stocks, but many purchase them to make an environmental claim like being carbon positive. To make such a claim, the Buyer purchases carbon offsets and retires them from circulation. This way, those particular offsets can’t be used by others.

07/21/2023

We are funding a portfolio of verified carbon projects around the world and country, and we’re also working on projects in Kansas City. Historically, the Blue River Valley was once a source of abundant clean water, rich soil for farming, and a favorite playground for Kansas Citians enjoying fishing, water sports, houseboats, and restaurants.

The industrial age brought great change to the river and surrounding neighborhoods. Industry selected riverside sites and brought jobs and economic activity but, over time, converted the once pristine river and surrounding land into a toxic wasteland. As the industrial businesses left, so did the jobs supporting the surrounding neighborhoods. The Blue River Valley - which was once a nature lover’s destination and thriving industrial community - is now in serious economic decline with an uncertain future.

The Blue River Valley Leadership Coalition seeks to establish a Pilot Intervention Project on a plot of vacant, under-utilized and undevelopable land in Kansas City, Missouri.

07/20/2023

Our members are driving real local change. So far to date our members have offset

146 tons of CO2e

which is equivalent to…

5,840 trees

and taking

29 cars off the road.

Do you want to join them?

07/16/2023

CLIMATE FACT: One estimate places food loss as one third of all food produced…

…to the tune of 8 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions! Whoa!

07/13/2023

Meet Parker H. a Lead Mechanical Engineer at a local architectural firm. When Parker signed up he shared that "it's a shocking visual to think that planting 210 trees a month is what it would take balance my carbon footprint. In the future I'm excited about some of the changes that my family will make to lower our footprint and I'm happy to be Carbon Positive in the meantime."

07/12/2023

Hello, World! This is our first post but we've been working to address the here in Kansas City for a few months. We're Carbon Positive KC and we provide free carbon inventories and offsetting capability for individuals and businesses.

We're building a grassroots KC community that is disrupting traditional climate funding by supporting local regenerative projects. Here's how it works:

1. Meet with one of our carbon experts to measure your personal carbon footprint
2. Learn how it compares to others and how you can reduce it
3. Commit to cleaning up your carbon pollution for a modest cost
4. Get peace of mind, a cool yard sign, and access to our members-only KC events

We recently launched and already have almost 30 KC-area members who are helping us achieve our regional climate goals by cleaning up their household's carbon trash!

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720 S Main Stret
Kansas City, MO
64105

Telephone

+18163101920

Website

http://www.carbonpositivekc.org/

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