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Octavia Carbon

Octavia Carbon

Octavia Carbon is a Direct Air Capture (DAC) company building the first DAC + storage plant in the southern hemisphere. Located in Kenya's Great Rift Valley, their first installment, Project...

Octavia Carbon

Octavia Carbon is a Direct Air Capture (DAC) company building the first DAC + storage plant in the southern hemisphere. Located in Kenya's Great Rift Valley, their first installment, Project Hummingbird, will leverage the region’s geothermal waste heat and unique local geology to capture and store CO₂ all while creating green jobs and potentially reducing energy costs for local communities in Kenya.

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Seaweed Generation Seaweed Sinking

Seaweed Generation

Seaweed Generation's mission is to mitigate and remove carbon emissions using seaweed. They believe that the wonders of seaweed can be coupled with technology for ocean rehabilitation of biodiversity, removal of...

Seaweed Generation

Seaweed Generation's mission is to mitigate and remove carbon emissions using seaweed. They believe that the wonders of seaweed can be coupled with technology for ocean rehabilitation of biodiversity, removal of pollution, and deacidification, that will also create a fantastic base biomass for food, fertilizer, plastics, fuel, carbon removal, and much much more.

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Charm Industrial

Charm Industrial

Charm Industrial is a group of smart, integrity-rich Bay Area engineers, on a mission to get atmospheric carbon concentrations down to 280 ppm (pre industrial levels). If you’ve ever looked...

Charm Industrial

Charm Industrial is a group of smart, integrity-rich Bay Area engineers, on a mission to get atmospheric carbon concentrations down to 280 ppm (pre industrial levels). If you’ve ever looked at the stars and said “what if I could just put the oil back in the ground?” Well, now you can. They create injectable bio-oil from waste products and store it safely underground.

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UNDO

UNDO

UNDO is a leading carbon dioxide removal project developer specializing in enhanced weathering. Part of Stripe’s 2021 Climate Portfolio, UNDO is scaling operations in the UK and US. The basalt rock...

UNDO

UNDO is a leading carbon dioxide removal project developer specializing in enhanced weathering. Part of Stripe’s 2021 Climate Portfolio, UNDO is scaling operations in the UK and US. The basalt rock they use, a by-product of the quarrying industry, is given to local regenerative farmers for free to spread using existing machinery, ensuring a 95% carbon efficiency. In addition to permanent, rapid and scalable carbon removals, UNDO’s holistic partnership model delivers significant co-benefits such as enhanced soil health, ocean de-acidification and increased profits for farming communities.

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CarbonCure Concrete Mineralization

CarbonCure

Carbon XPRIZE Grand Prize Winner CarbonCure is a Canadian-based company focused on mineralizing captured CO₂ in concrete. With more than 650 systems sold across the global concrete industry and a...

CarbonCure

Carbon XPRIZE Grand Prize Winner CarbonCure is a Canadian-based company focused on mineralizing captured CO₂ in concrete. With more than 650 systems sold across the global concrete industry and a methodology verified by Verra, CarbonCure’s technologies currently save from the atmosphere thousands of metric tons of CO₂ each month – with significant growth and impact, year-over-year. Did you know the concrete you build your home with can be part of solving climate change?

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Carbo Culture

Carbo Culture

Carbo Culture is a climate technology company with a breakthrough, scalable carbon removal solution based on Biochar. They are on a mission to convert CO₂ from plants into stable carbon...

Carbo Culture

Carbo Culture is a climate technology company with a breakthrough, scalable carbon removal solution based on Biochar. They are on a mission to convert CO₂ from plants into stable carbon and lock it away for 1,000 years. It is a Californian climate tech startup standing on 15 years of breakthrough academic science and research in the domain of converting carbon in the most efficient way possible. Each ton of their biocarbon holds 3.2t CO2, and they use food production residue material such as walnut shells in the process.

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CarbonBuilt

CarbonBuilt

CarbonBuilt's Carbon XPRIZE-winning technology reduces concrete’s embodied carbon by 70% to over 100% — enabling immediate impact in thousands of existing plants without compromising price, performance, or operations. First, they...

CarbonBuilt

CarbonBuilt's Carbon XPRIZE-winning technology reduces concrete’s embodied carbon by 70% to over 100% — enabling immediate impact in thousands of existing plants without compromising price, performance, or operations. First, they remove carbon-intensive cement from the mix and replace it with local industrial waste materials. Then they trap atmospheric CO₂ inside the blocks while curing.

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Nori

Nori

Nori, a group of fun-loving techstar graduates, helps regenerative farmers measure the carbon they store and keep in their soil and sell that by the tonne in their carbon removal...

Nori

Nori, a group of fun-loving techstar graduates, helps regenerative farmers measure the carbon they store and keep in their soil and sell that by the tonne in their carbon removal marketplace. The world's farmlands offer a giant opportunity to store carbon in the very soils that feed us. Did you see the documentary “Kiss the Ground?” Nori will make you want to.

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Living Carbon

Living Carbon

Living Carbon aims to rebalance the planet’s carbon cycle using the power of plants. They incorporate a photosynthesis enhancement trait to help the trees they plant grow faster. They’ve also...

Living Carbon

Living Carbon aims to rebalance the planet’s carbon cycle using the power of plants. They incorporate a photosynthesis enhancement trait to help the trees they plant grow faster. They’ve also developed a metal accumulation trait so trees can absorb more metals in their roots and stem - cleaning the soil as they grow!

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Patch

Patch

Patch is the platform that powers climate action. With an API and a marketplace that enables companies to seamlessly purchase as little as a gram to giga-tonnes of carbon removal...

Patch

Patch is the platform that powers climate action. With an API and a marketplace that enables companies to seamlessly purchase as little as a gram to giga-tonnes of carbon removal from reputable and trusted carbon removal projects, Patch enables people and business to take action against climate change.

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What are the best carbon offset programs?

We know that the majority of carbon offset programs
aren't doing anything to reverse climate change.

That's why we focus on the 3% that are making an impact
in the form of pure carbon dioxide removal.

In 2022, only 3% of projects resulted in pure carbon removal.

What are the best carbon offset programs?

Let's address the seven tonne elephant in the room: most carbon credits, which are used to counteract or "offset" carbon emissions, don't actually offset anything. Traditional carbon offsets such as renewable energy credits (RECs), energy efficiency offsets, and REDD+ offsets focus on avoiding new emissions rather than removing existing ones.

So how can the casual buyer know what the best carbon offset programs are? Here are some key criteria we look for when vetting new partners:

Gift CO₂ Removal today:

When first looking at the many collections we have here at Thanks a Ton, you might be thinking, in what ways do these gifts for sustainability actually translate into actions to save the planet and help improve the current global climate situation. These are not just the best eco friendly gift ideas because they look amazing, but these cards actually show what methods are being used to remove the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. There are in fact many different CO2 removal methods that can positively improve the environment that we live in. The cards in this collection show the many solutions to stop global warming that you can choose from to help improve the world.