http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=530 Personal Thoughts and Ramblings Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.37 http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=530#comment-79 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:20:34 +0000 http://www.energysoapbox.org/2006/09/01/neutralizing-human-impact/#comment-79 My principal concern with this approach is the integrity of the program in which you are “investing,” since you are depending upon others to achieve a result you favor. While an offset program can be intriguing and make you feel good, as with all charities or 501(c)(3) programs you have to wonder how effective they are, whether they are legitimate, and how much of your money actually makes it to the end result and how much is eaten up in administrative salaries and the like. I have no opinion on Terrapass one way or the other, but homework is required on all of these entities if you want to achieve maximum impact with your dollars. Some charities, like the Salvation Army, are very effective in using most of your dollars for their chosen goals; others, are very ineffective and use most of your money to fund salaries and administrative costs and very little of it to fund the projects for which they are founded. And then, of course, there are the scams. So, this is just a caution that while these programs may feel right, homework is advised prior to taking out a membership or contributing funds to them.

]]> http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=530#comment-80 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:20:00 +0000 http://www.energysoapbox.org/2006/09/01/neutralizing-human-impact/#comment-80 My principal concern with this approach is the integrity of the program in which you are “investing,” since you are depending upon others to achieve a result you favor. While an offset program can be intriguing and make you feel good, as with all charities or 501(c)(3) programs you have to wonder how effective they are, whether they are legitimate, and how much of your money actually makes it to the end result and how much is eaten up in administrative salaries and the like. I have no opinion on Terrapass one way or the other, but homework is required on all of these entities if you want to achieve maximum impact with your dollars. Some charities, like the Salvation Army, are very effective in using most of your dollars for their chosen goals; others, are very ineffective and use most of your money to fund salaries and administrative costs and very little of it to fund the projects for which they are founded. And then, of course, there are the scams. So, this is just a caution that while these programs may feel right, homework is advised prior to taking out a membership or contributing funds to them.

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