Personal Carbon Trading for the UK

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, commonly known as the RSA, just started CarbonLimited, an experiment in personal carbon trading.

It's a twist on the controversial scheme of cap-and-trade carbon emissions schemes proposed and implemented by some countries and businesses.

Individuals can enter their estimated housing, energy and transportation levels, or choose avatars – or characters – most similar to their own lifestyles, to calculate their projected emissions per year.

If someone causes more than 5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, you can donate online to a project that will neutralize your emissions. People can also submit a carbon emissions reduction project to the site, which if selected, could get seed money from everyone's donations.