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2013 Autumn | Business & Sustainability

Identifying the Significance of Voluntary Market

Student(s):

Joshua Redhair

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Rachel Terada

Partner(s):

  • Center for Resource Solutions

Faculty advisor(s):

Scott Montgomery, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

During my project, I conducted the Verification Review for Green-e Energy Certification Program housed in the Center for Resource Solutions (CSR), a non-profit organization. Additionally I conducted research on historical trends of verification data from the years 2001-2011. My goal was to see how the growth rate of the data changed from year to year. Data was collected from historical records from CSR. From my findings, I hypothesized that fluctuations in the data represented how the industry was reacting to economic or political events. I also argued that consumer generated data better represented the status of the market.