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Cap and Trade and How It Should Effect The Landscaping Industry

Large corporations buy carbon offsets. It is mostly an excuse to continue business as usual. Most corporations just buy a company that can show a positive outlook as far as the carbons they sputter out. If a airline company exudes to much carbon dioxide, just buy a wind tunnel farm or an investment in green automobiles. That will help you offset the carbon dioxide. Soon, and it looks like very soon all our energy bills will be going up. Not for the energy per say, but for the government. Through taxes they can create another way to gather money.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t keep the planet clean and green, but that there is a element to all this that has not been discussed.
A few questions may be order before I go on.
Do farms that grow produce, offset carbon dioxide? I sure think so.
Does the landscape industry as a whole, offset carbon dioxide? I know so.
In the United States there is 25 million acres of turf. This alone absorbs carbon dioxide in such a huge rate and supplies one billion seven hundred and fifty million people with oxygen from the process of the turf just growing.
Any body have a guess how many trees and shrubs get planted by landscapers? I can’t even guess, but will tell you that the number is huge. The carbon offsets are huge also.
What am I getting at? Maybe, just maybe it’s time especially if the cap and trade proposal goes through, to offer a tax incentive to the landscape industry. For every tree, sod lawn or shrub that gets planted some sort of tax credit gets applied. Can you hear me out there landscapers? Just think of huge corporations wanting to buy portions of your company to offset their carbon dioxide problems. There should also be a tax credit offered to home owners who get their yard landscaped.
Why not? We, as landscape contractors are off setting carbon dioxide,” the poisonous gas”, just by softscaping yards.
Agriculture and landscaping are the true green industries, and should be recognized as such. We do so much as an industry to offset carbon dioxide, supply oxygen, slow down and eliminate erosion, and help keep our world green.
We are the “True Green Industry”
How can we get our government to recognize how valuable we are in pollution reduction?
I sure hope this little blog will inspire those of you who feel the same way to say something, and do something for our industry. This may help us as landscape companies, be a little greener monetarily.

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