Farmers Helping Farmers carbon credit program helps offset consumers ecological footprint by helping farming programs in Kenya reduce their emissions by updating technology.

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www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2008/01/14/farmers-carbon.html

Saskatchewan farmers are finally getting credit for their environmentally friendly, 'no-till' agricultural practices -- carbon credits, that is.

And the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is providing a marketplace where buyers and sellers of carbon credits can do business -- and do good for the environment in the process.

"The premise (behind CCX) is to find the least-cost ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,'' Mike Walsh, senior vice-president of the CCX, said in a recent interview with the Leader-Post.

By JIM DAY
The Guardian

(Prince Edward Island) Farmers aren't looking to become rich by following sound environmental practices, nor do they want to dig themselves into a financial hole.

That, at least, is how Fred Cheverie, co-ordinator of the Souris River Watershed Committee, sizes up the challenge of encouraging farmers to be good stewards of the land while they also are able to afford to show the utmost respect toward the environment.

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