Jeff Keyes has a 15-year background in olive and cattle farming in the Southern Highlands, but has been running his 50-hectare property, the Sportsman Creek Conservation Area for the past two years.
A proportion of the running costs of the farm, including rates and insurance, are paid for by a carbon trading deal he has with an international publishing business, Horden House.
The publishing business increases carbon levels through its production and distribution process, and by using wood pulp for paper.
This is offset by the carbon absorbed into the trees on My …

Inspite of the hiring being slowed down by recession, green-collar jobs are growing double than that of traditional jobs. Clean Energy Economy study which is billed as the U.S.’s first state-by-state survey of green-collar jobs states that Green-collar hiring took a hit during the current recession and may accelerate beyond its 1998-2007 growth rate of about 9% a year which is more than double the 3.7% growth rate for traditional jobs.
As a fact more than 68,200 jobs across 50 states and the District of Columbia accounted for about 770,000 jobs …