Michigan State and Iowa team up on a ridiculous feel-good "solution" to a non-problem!

From this page:

“Our commitment for 2007 was around 25,000 tons,” [MSU's] Boomer said. “We need 25,000 tons reduction. And, we have not met that because our campus is growing, and we are using more electricity. We will purchase credits from the University of Iowa, which has successfully reduced its emissions by burning oat hulls (a byproduct of Quaker Oats) at its power plant.”