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This video is about 3.5 minutes long and quickly shows you how to locate the latest TIST data uploaded from the field in Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) and India.

Carbon offsets from TIST are available here at Grow Clean Air.

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This video explains in a concise manner how the TIST Program began, its innovations for sustainable reforestation in Africa, some history on Small Groups and more.

You can support the TIST Program by offsetting your carbon footprint on Grow Clean Air and donations to plant trees in Africa and India for $1 each with I4EI!

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In this brief (2 min 42 sec) Ben Henneke (Clean Air Action) and Vannesa Henneke (I4EI) explain some of the things that make the TIST Program unique.

Three main points are highlighted:

1) TIST is perhaps the most effective carbon project in the world thanks to its revolutionary model for collecting data and presenting it transparently online.

2) TIST is perhaps the only carbon project in the world where you can actually see results as they happen. It is certainly the most transparent program currently in operation.

3) The Small Groups involved in the TIST Program verifiably receive the benefits (local and monetary) for their work.

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In this brief (3 min 4 sec) audio snippet, Charlie Williams and Ben Henneke of Clean Air Action explain exactly what happens with the revenue generated through the sale of carbon credits (from TIST reforestation projects in Africa and India) here on Grow Clean Air. This is part of the effort to set a precedent for transparency in the carbon market amongst retailers of carbon credits as well as from the programs that generate these credits.

One of the amazing parts of Clean Air Action's revolutionary carbon model is the concept of the participants in the TIST Program (farmers) being partners in the venture, eventually receiving 70% of the revenue generated from the sale of bona fide credits to the international market!

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In this brief (2 min 18 sec) audio snippet, Ben Henneke of Clean Air Action explains the main ways that co2 is created by humans as well as some of the environmental benefits of buying carbon offsets.

Trees are one of the most effective, natural ways to absorb carbon dioxide and create oxygen (o2). Grow Clean Air markets carbon credits created through TIST Programs in Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) and India, which are empowered by the Institute for Environmental Innovation (I4EI).

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In this brief (2 min 9 sec) audio snippet, Charlie Williams and Ben Henneke (of Clean Air Action) explain how Clean Air Action took part in developing the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) used in the Kyoto Protocol, which is in turn used by the United Nations to verify carbon credit projects worldwide.

Clean Air Action is the environmental business innovator for the TIST Program, a sustainable reforestation slash Small Groups and Best Practices project. With help from The Institute for Environmental Innovation (I4EI), TIST empowers local farmers in India, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda reforest (and afforest) their land and receive health and HIV/AIDS education, among many other benetfits.

These Small Groups, which are already planting over 8,000 trees a day, receive micro-loans from TIST to get started. A revolutionary quantification and verification process follows for the life of the group and the trees, involving the use of handheld Palm devices to collect key data and photographs on a continual basis. The model was based on transparency at the core, and the database is freely available online anytime. Head straight to see the latest data on the recent quantification page. TIST has been running for nearly a decade.

Grow Clean Air makes these fully-certified, unique carbon credits available to consumers for offsetting their environmental impact while supporting sustainable agriculture in Africa and India.

This is not Clean Air Action's first time innovating for the benefit of business and the environment. They are responsible for a number of "firsts" in US for environmental regulation work with both public (EPA) and private (Dow Chemical, Ford Motor, Shell Chemical) industries in the 1990s, including the first Ozone Alert Program.

But it was in the months leading up to the formation of Clean Air Action Corporation that some work ended up having a larger impact than anyone involved could have imagined. The work was embedded in the core of the Kyoto Protocol, the international framework convention for reducing Greenhouse Gases (GhGs) that cause climate change.

The specifics of this work will is the topic of an upcoming article for Grow Clean Air... for now, please consider supporting by offsetting your carbon footprint. Thanks for your interest and involvement!

For those interested in making a tax-deductible donation to help alleviate the worldwide need for oxygen and aid in sustainable living practices in Africa and India, you can go directly to The Institute for Environmental Innovation, a 501(c)3 Not-for-Profit organization. They have organized a program for planting a tree in Africa or India for only one US dollar! Additional benefits are created through this single dollar, such as health and sustainable farming education and transport for local leaders to receive training. When was the last time one dollar went this far?!

Following is I4EI's mission statement:

Empowering Small Groups to take locally determined action on environmental renewal, food security and improved health and well-being.

Making donations to I4EI is an excellent way to contribute to these good causes and receive a tax benefit.

NB: With I4EI, you can support by planting trees and expanding the I4EI and TIST programs. However, if what you want to do is offset your individual or business carbon footprint directly, this can be done here at GrowCleanAir.com.

Grow Clean Air markets carbon credits generated by The International Small Group Tree Planting Program. These credits are quite unique.

Here is a snippet from the TIST Website:

TIST empowers Small Groups of subsistence farmers in countries such as Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and India to reverse the devastating effects of deforestation, drought, and famine. Since 1999, TIST participants have been identifying local sustainable development goals that include tree planting and sustainable agriculture. TIST creates a communication and administrative structure that also addresses health (including HIV/AIDS), education, and nutririon. TIST expects to provide long-term revenue for the Small Group participants through the sale of greenhouse gas credits (GhG).

Grow Clean Air markets carbon credits created by TIST in order to allow people worldwide to simultaneouly achieve two main goals:

• offset carbon footprints
• contribute to worldwide sustainable living

Of course, when you offset your carbon footprint at Grow Clean Air, you are doing much more than that! Find out how.

TIST has been around for nearly a decade, and the farmers at the root of the program are currently planting over 8,000 trees per day! We think these outstanding results need to be expanded, and are determined to make the connection from consumer purchases to farmer benefits as transparent and openly honest as possible.

We thank you for your support of Grow Clean Air!