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January 5, 2006

Comparing Consumer-Level CO2 Traders

TerraPass: for-profit, expensive, and well designed and marketed. Wharton School in Philadelphia.

DriveNeutral: not-for-profit, inexpensive, and poorly designed and marketed. Presidio School of Management in San Francisco.

Edit 15 January 2007: DriveNeutral has redesigned. They're my clear favorite at this point.

Posted by Niels Olson at January 5, 2006 10:09 AM

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Good post -- more of these are needed. For other purchase factors we here are important to our customers, I would include:

1) Third Party Verification (neutral third party looking at the books)
2) Matched Maturity (reductions happen in current year)
3) Listed Projects (you know where the money is going up front)
4) Size of organization (your money can more easily inspire others to action)

Others you think are important?

Posted by: tomatterrapass at January 6, 2006 1:08 PM

Tom,

I actually e-mailed DriveNeutral and have gotten no response, so thanks for finding this and taking the time to comment. Presumably there is a philosophical argument to be made in favor of for-profit status if the consequence is better performance over time. Why didn't I get those four points from your website?

Posted by: Niels Olson [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 6, 2006 1:39 PM

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