Mosaic Community Lifestyle Realty, a pioneer in the Asheville real estate market’s green movement, is proud to be a part of local initiatives toward a healthier planet. To that end, Mosaic and its brokers have joined forces for a fifth year in a row with Appalachian Offsets. Appalachian Offsets offers carbon offsets to fund projects that address the damage of climate change by reducing carbon-dioxide pollution in Western North Carolina.
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There is a proven link between the production of harmful greenhouse gases by humans and global warming. By now, the results of such changes to our climate are devastatingly familiar: erratic and destructive weather, severe famine, rising sea levels, crop failures and – yes – unprecedented storms and deadly flooding in areas not typically prone to such events.
Helping to reverse climate impact
Carbon offsets – pollution equivalents that can be purchased to help pay for a renewable energy project, an energy-efficiency upgrade, or the like – are one way to help stop and eventually reverse the damage. For instance, the money from the purchase of four tons of carbon offsets would go to fund a project that either reduces carbon-dioxide production by four tons, or removes four tons of carbon dioxide from the air. Carbon offsetting is an effective, long-lasting tool that aids the environment as well as the community.
Appalachian Offsets (an initiative from the Green Built Alliance) allows Asheville residents and businesses to offset their carbon footprint while at the same time helping local schools, nonprofits and other area organizations. It’s simple to participate: First, calculate your carbon footprint, then make a (tax-deductible) donation to Appalachian Offsets to offset your footprint, at a rate of $20 per ton. The offset donation is then applied to an energy-efficiency project at an area school, non-profit or other community organization in Western N.C.
Mosaic continues support of carbon offset projects
Contributions from Mosaic’s agents over the past five years have gone to support a variety of Appalachian Offsets projects, such as water-conservation upgrades, energy-efficiency lighting retrofits, and solar-energy installations. Asheville-area projects by Appalachian Offsets include a recently completed 30 KW solar array at the United Way building in downtown Asheville; an 8.6 KW solar array installation for the community meeting space at the St. Paul’s Missionary Baptist Church in West Asheville’s Burton Street community in 2022; and a large solar array (300 KW of solar photovoltaic panels) at Isaac Dickson Elementary School in 2021. Solar-array installations have not only reduced these organizations’ carbon footprints, but they have saved them thousands of dollars in energy costs each year.
For more information on Appalachian Offsets, and to calculate your carbon footprint, go to https://www.cutmycarbon.org/. To learn more about how Mosaic helps to build and support the Western N.C. community through green initiatives and beyond, visit https://mymosaicrealty.com/donations-volunteer-program/.
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