Can American Farms Make Bamboo the Next Big Cash Crop? | Ethiopian News

Ted Rose, principal of the consulting firm Rose Carbon, predicts economic opportunities for farmers in the emerging marketplace of cap-and-trade commerce. Bamboo agriculture can generate "carbon reduction" credits under current cap-and-trade rules, Rose says, so farmers producing Moso in the Delta could potentially sell their credits on the open market. Citing examples of Moso farms in Nicaragua already taking advantage of these transactions, Rose says, "It's just another revenue stream for farmers."

Carbon credits may pay more than farming | Otago Daily Times Online

A chap in Borneo, having read about the money to be made in palm oil, heads out to cut down a patch of rainforest to plant palm oil trees.

He is just about to strike the first blow with his axe when the local regional council officer arrives and tells him he will get a carbon credit if he puts the axe away.

Some time later, the officer returns to visit the man and the two go for a walk in the rainforest.

They see orangutans have returned - so he gets an ecosystem credit.

Then a rare butterfly, which has not been seen for years, returns.

A stream which used to be muddy is now pristine.

The man gets more credits.

Rally: Residents Rally Against Cap and Trade

Jul. 19--A Southern West Virginians for Coal spokesman quoted Thomas Jefferson Saturday at a Save Coal Rally conducted outside the main entrance of the 2009 Friends of Coal Auto Fair.

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty," Bill Hartling said as miners, their families and dozens of other West Virginians tied to the coal industry cheered.

The "Say No to Cap and Trade" rally was held to protest the American Clean Energy and Security proposal, better known as cap and trade.

Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie -- Obama's Domestic Agenda Teeters - washingtonpost.com

From a lousy cap-and-trade bill awaiting death in the Senate to a health-care reform agenda already weak in the knees to the failure of the stimulus to deliver promised jobs and economic activity, what once looked like a hope-tastic juggernaut is showing all the horsepower of a Chevy Cobalt.