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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3219 - Q&A: “Can I sell carbon-offset checks to small brands?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Green-washing headlines have everyone nervous, and for good reason. Today we design a “quick-check” carbon-audit service small brands will pay for—and keep the workload under two hours per client.

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0:00.0

You know that customer reviews can have an enormous impact on your business. And you probably know this as a customer as well. When you go shopping for something, don't you look at the reviews? You might even filter them by star rating. You might see what people like, what they don't like. So if you want to have good reviews, if you want to have great reviews, it really helps to automate your process. And that's something our longtime partner, ShipStation, can help with.

0:21.5

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0:26.7

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0:39.4

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0:46.0

Lemonada.

0:50.7

You might have heard of carbon offsets if you've ever gone to book a plane ticket,

0:59.4

and they're trying to upsell you on a bunch of stuff.

1:02.2

They're going to upsell you for your seat.

1:04.0

They're going to upsell you for insurance that you probably don't need.

1:06.8

And you might also see this little option to purchase carbon offsets, which are supposed to balance

1:12.5

out emissions. It's like funding a rainforest project to cancel out the CO2 from your flight.

1:18.0

At least that's how it's supposed to work. But there was some reporting by the Guardian and other

1:21.7

journalistic outlets that showed many rainforest protection offsets, ones used by airlines or coffee companies, etc.

1:29.3

They were wildly over-credited or even worthless. So big corporations responded by hiring

1:35.2

these expensive audit firms that are responsible for making sure that the offsets do what they're

1:40.0

supposed to do. I still think it's a very kind of slippery sort of business. But nevertheless,

1:45.7

it is a big business selling carbon offsets and then checking to make sure that they are

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