I was happy to have been contacted by Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold for my opinion about how the financial crisis was effecting the offset market.

his article was published today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100502518_2.html

While I am happy to quoted, unfortunately he didn’t mention my company 4Offsets.com or link to out site.

Here are my words wisdom

“People still come to the site, but where you used to get people signing up [for offsets] every day, now you’d be lucky to get a few people a week,” said Fred Weiss, a small-time offset seller based in Ann Arbor, Mich., who sends customers stickers that say, “Carbon Neutral Vehicle.” Apparently that isn’t as important now.

“Who cares about the environment? Am I going to have a house next week?” he imagined would-be customers saying.

Well maybe I’m on my way to fame and fortune, but I think it will take a bit more before i join the talking heads of the US media.

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Well today, it the first full day of business for my new venture www.4Offsets.com. My business partners and i are counting our billions… even before we’ve made the first sale. We’re obviously pumped up and looking forward to making this work, despite the hard work ahead.

So my one partner ed, who is English, was musing about the possibilities for royal honors- “I could become Sir Edward”. Which of course led to this: