Reduce Your Carbon Footprint With Earth Carbon Offsets Today

Introducing Earth Carbon Offsets: The first and best carbon credits to stop tropical forest destruction

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Global warming is a global problem, but the solution is going to come from each and every one of us acting locally, every day, to help restore the natural systems that support us all.
When you buy Reforest Teak products you not only treat yourself to well made, durable heirloom quality furniture; you also help counteract climate change, help reverse the ongoing destruction of tropical forests, and help protect and restore both the biodiversity and the rural communities that depend on those forests even more than we do.

How can a piece of furniture do so much?
• Carbon Sequestration

Reforest Teak products contain over 40% carbon that the teak trees have removed from the atmosphere as carbon dioxide – the main culprit in climate change – and that CO2 remains sequestered in wood fiber for the life of your furniture.

• Ecological Reforestation

Reforest Teak trees are grown on lands that were deforested over the past 50 years to raise hamburger meat for export and they are being reforested and managed sustainably by the world’s top forestry experts to maximize their levels of carbon sequestration.

• Sustainable Harvest and Employment

Reforest Teak wood is sustainably harvested, and your furniture manufactured by skilled local residents whose economic security is enhanced
And all – 100 % – of the net income from Reforest Teak goes back to support highly
targeted reforestation projects in regions of our Hemisphere that need it most.

But you can have an even bigger impact
Now you can actively “offset” the carbon impact of your household or company’s lifestyle. How?

• Estimate your carbon footprint

On average, a typical family in the US directly generates (through heating/cooling, electricity, travel) about 25 tons of CO2 per year and each American generates about 10 tons of CO2 per year. You can use that number, or make a better estimate of your own contribution to climate change with our online carbon calculator.

• Reduce your carbon footprint

Climate experts and economists both agree that reducing your carbon footprint is the single best approach to combating climate change: use less, travel less, and do both more efficiently. But even if you don't have the time and resources to completely erase your footprint you can contribute to the global effort where it really matters.

• Buy offsets to neutralize the rest

After reducing your carbon emissions, biological storage of carbon (in healthy forests, wetlands, grasslands and soil) is considered to be one of the most efficient carbon sequestration strategies, capable of reaching a scale appropriate to the global challenge. Sustainable reforestation and ecosystem restoration projects in the tropics remove measurable amounts of carbon from the atmosphere and once certified these offsets can be sold to help fund the restoration.

Why Buy Earth Carbon Offsets™
When you buy carbon offsets you take direct action to fight climate change…but not all carbon offsets
are equal. Some offset programs invest in renewable energy or energy efficiency projects – both of
which are very important – but scientists and economists agree that investing in tropical forest
restoration , is one of the most cost effective ways of solving the atmospheric CO2 problem. That is why our initial offering of Earth Carbon Offset™ (ECOs) comes from Bosques Pico Bonito. Important criteria for highest quality land-based carbon offsets include:

• Produce Healthier, Sustainable Ecosystems

Reforest Teak™ advocates highest quality forest-based carbon offsets that protect and restore healthy forests and the surrounding ecosystems. That's why we support Earth Carbon Offsets™ (ECOs). Projects like Bosques Pico Bonito also help rebuild local communities, bringing educational, training, economic and social benefits to help align the needs of future generations with environmental protection, while at the same time helping fight climate change.

• Globally Sanctioned

The 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali culminated in the adoption of a new program called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) which supports markets in carbon offsets by assigning a value to standing forests, and then rewards their stewards for maintaining them. Not only can this reduce the 20% of global carbon dioxide emissions caused by deforestation, (a bigger contributor to global warming than the World's entire transportation sector) it will shift fundamental market forces toward preservation instead of destruction. Earth Carbon Offsets from Bosques Pico Bonito represent the first of these REDD carbon credits available to the voluntary carbon markets.

• Specific and Tangible Benefits

ECOs from Bosques Pico Bonito project is a prime example of the highest quality restorative land-based carbon offset projects. Pico Bonito is the second largest national park in Honduras, spread across 265,000 acres with 19 major watersheds which supply the water to more than 500,000 people. But deforestation has damaged the park's biodiversity and quality of the watersheds. Carbon offset purchases from Bosques Pico Bonito fund both the protection of existing virgin forest and reforestation of more than 6,200 degraded acres on the park's borders to lock down atmospheric carbon at the same time they restore the water quality essential to local communities.

• Additionality and Transparency

No Earth Carbon Offsets™ are sold until the amount of carbon is precisely calculated, the project launched, the parties contractually obligated to follow through on the terms, and the whole process audited and certified by internationally recognized third party analysts to assure "additionality" (i.e. that new carbon sequestration is assured). All the partners, projects, and agreements involved in Earth Carbon Offsets™ are in the open…in fact, we encourage purchasers of ECOs to visit and see first hand the effects these projects are having. As with Reforest Teak™, all net income from ECOs projects is re-invested in other quality reforestation and restoration projects in critical habitats around the world.

• Third Party Certified

Bosques Pico Bonito, for example, is one of only six projects worldwide to be awarded an "A" certification by the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism - the certifying body for all Kyoto-approved carbon emissions reduction projects in developing countries worldwide. Further, ECOs from Bosques Pico Bonito have met the highest environmental standards and bear the full certification of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Climate, Community and Biodiversity Design Standard (CCB).

• The Best Science

Earth Carbon Offsets™ works with a world class team of foresters, ecologists and soil scientists to constantly evaluate opportunities around the world where endangered or degraded ecosystems can be protected, biodiversity can be restored and economic sustainability improved. The science of ecosystem restoration is advancing quickly with the growing need to reduce atmospheric carbon sequestration efficiently. ECOs projects use the best science to achieve the highest ecosystem benefits.

How To Buy Earth Carbon Offsets™
Buy ECOs now to offset the carbon footprint of your family or business.
At Reforest Teak™ we are ready to help, and we’ve got two ways to get you started:

1. Receive a free half ton with your Reforest Teak purchase.

If you have made any teak purchases from Reforest Teak™ or Gardeners Supply within the past year, we'll buy your first ECOs for you! Just email the order number from your invoice to info@reforestteak.com, and we'll send you an official Certificate for a half ton (about 2 weeks of carbon emissions for the average American) of Earth Carbon Offsets by return email.

2. Buy Ecos as a gift or for yourself…20% off

If you want to do more, consider buying extra ECOs for yourself, or as the ultimate Green Gift for relatives and friends. We are so committed to this creative new solution to fund forest restoration and fight global climate change that for the rest of year we will offer Earth Carbon Offsets at 20% off the regular retail price to customers of Reforest Teak.

Either way you’ll get an official, personalized ECOs Certificate which shows how much carbon you have chosen to take out of our overburdened atmosphere and store in healthy tropical forestlands. We’ll also send along an informative discussion of just how your ECOs work and how they help. Act now!