Anyone buy carbon offsets for their film?

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Angelshare1

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I was watching "There Will Be Blood" and I noticed that it said in the credits that it was a zero carbon footprint movie. Anyone have experience in this? I know there's a company that you can just call up and give money too and they'll give you their certification.

So I guess what I'm really asking is how much money it costs. Depends on the film I'm sure, but anyone have any experience in this?
 
The politics or advisability or whatever, of doing this, is not up for discussion. Angelshare1 asked a simple question. He/she didn't ask "should I" or "will someone please tell me why I shouldn't", so let's not derail the question there.

Many companies offer carbon offsetting services; UPS asks me every time I ship a package if I'd like to do that. I'm not surprised there's a company offering such a certification for a film, but I'm not aware of any.

A little googling for general carbon offsetting consultants reveals companies like http://www.myclimate.org/en/offsetting.html, and http://www.co2balance.com/. Obviously it's up to you to research whether any company is legit and will actually follow through with the planting of trees or whatever it is they claim to do to accomplish carbon offsetting, or whether they're shysters who are pouncing on a popular trend in order to rake in some dough.

The only thing I found film-related was this:
http://green.autoblog.com/2009/02/24/eric-bana-offsets-carbon-emissions-of-new-film/
 
The company "There Will Be Blood" used is NativeEnergy. Looks like it's 14.00 per offset whatever that is. I believe Al Gore's movie used this one as well. What I'm trying to find out is if anyone has experience doing this as office square footage and # of employees can be a gray zone for a project based business such as film making.


I figured it was no different than the "No animals were hurt in the making of this film" certification. I don't think I've noticed any other films that are carbon neutral.
 
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