For this year's Yahoo! Green Award, Yahoo! looked for a “green mashup” that would inspire people to use social technology to help the environment. After reading through the project submissions in the “Environment” Cause Area of the NetSquared Project Gallery, they chose Live Climate to be this year's Yahoo! Green Award recipient.
Below is an e-interview with it's co-Directors, Nick Handler and Matt Evans (who is also the Founder).
1. How does Live Climate work? Where did the idea come from?
Live Climate is a non-profit, online marketplace for carbon offset projects that do more than just reduce greenhouse gases - they also help fight poverty, create jobs in poor communities and protect local ecosystems. We identify these offset projects and then connect consumers to them through our website - www.liveclimate.org. We provide information and media on the projects that describe how they work and how they positively impact low-income communities and local environments. The consumer can choose the project, or projects that they'd like to support and purchase offsets directly from them.
