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About Grow Tomorrow’s Carbon Offsets
Grow Tomorrow wants to fight climate change with you. We help you do something about climate change with trackable, sustainable, and transparent carbon credits.
Who Is Grow Tomorrow?
Grow Tomorrow is a team of technology experts who want to help fight climate change. The Grow Tomorrow team partners with businesses and individuals in New Jersey to renew the land, plant trees, reduce and capture emissions, and save the Earth. Together, we develop packaged or custom solutions for families and businesses.
Our mission is to offset 250 million US tons of CO2 and build a brighter tomorrow for our world.
How do you retire carbon in New Jersey?
Simply put, we retire carbon by not using it. When we purchase carbon offsets or support a carbon reduction project we gain the right to the emission reductions. Many groups buy these rights and then use them to pollute or sell them. We buy the carbon reductions and retire them, meaning that they are taken out of circulation forever.
How is carbon captured in New Jersey?
There are a few ways to capture carbon in New Jersey – before the fuel is burned, while the fuel is burned, or after the fuel is burned.
- It’s easiest to capture the carbon after the fuel is burned – post-combustion carbon capture. Once the fuel gasses are released, they can be separated and captured. This is the most common process.
- With pre-combustion capture, the carbon is separated while still in fuel form. The fuel is heated with steam and oxygen, which creates a synthesized gas. A second reaction forms that gas into water and carbon dioxide, which are then separated.
- Capturing the carbon during combustion is called oxy-fuel combustion. During the burning process, the fuels are not burned in normal atmospheric air – they’re burned in a mixture containing a lot of oxygen, which results in water and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide is then captured.
Once captured, the carbon must be stored underground or deep in the ocean so it isn’t released into the atmosphere. This is a form of carbon sequestration called geologic carbon sequestration.
How is methane captured in New Jersey?
One pound of methane can trap 25 times more heat in the atmosphere than one pound of carbon dioxide. But methane is also the main ingredient in natural gas, so it is valuable to capture it before it escapes from landfills or farms into the atmosphere.
In landfills, when trash is decomposing in a hill, gas collection pipes or wells can be installed on top to capture and pipe the methane out, which can then be transported to a generation facility and burned to produce heat or generate electricity.
A similar process is used on farms, to capture methane from manure and other farm waste.
How does urban reclamation work in New Jersey?
Urban reclamation involves discovering blighted or abandoned properties in urban areas, throughout New Jersey, where others do not want to invest. These properties can be used to help offset carbon by sequestering carbon via tree plantings and beautifying the neighborhood, or serve as a renewable energy source by placing solar panels on the property.