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What is the Carbon Offset Program?
 A good way to think of Carbon Offset is as credit that goes toward the reduction of greenhouse gases—or perhaps an easier way to think of it is as a reduction in the number of trees you need to absorb your own carbon output every year. Since there is no efficient means of taking the carbon we emit out of the air, we need to find ways to reduce and offset our emissions. There are many ways this can be done, for example, we can ride the bus to work, use less electricity, invest in renewable energy technologies, and support programs that save intact forests.
 The Field Museum is in a unique position to help you offset your carbon emissions. As an exchange participant in the Chicago Climate Exchange, the world’s first and North America’s only active voluntary, legally binding integrated trading system to reduce emissions of Greenhouse Gases, The Field Museum is able to offer Carbon Offset Credits to museum visitors.
The Field Museum's Carbon Offset Program gives visitors like you the opportunity to do something about the carbon emissions that you produced traveling to the museum. By purchasing an Offset Credit for $1, you are helping to fund the development of renewable energy resources and the protection of the world's intact forests. These projects are essential steps to reducing the impact that we all have on global warming.
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