It claims that burning wood is considered to be carbon neutral.

So I guess replacing a propane cooking stove (in an under developed region)with a wood stove would constutute a good target for offset money?

The problem is that they both put CO2 and soot into the atmosphere.  Releasing it from a source that is storing CO2 out of the atmosphere.

If I buy enough carbon offsets to buy a wood stove that replaces a propane stove, then how much CO2 and soot release is curtailed?  None.

So the CO2 and soot release by the air travel purportedly offset, is actually not offset, furthermore a wood stove is manufactured and transported to a remote region(by air?).  Releasing more tons of CO2.

Offsets, flawed from the start, with the assumption that burning wood and biomass is carbon neutral.  Are there similar assumptions at every level and every aspect of the offset theories?  

Incentivize renewable energy and conservation with a 10 cent per kwh subsidy directly to homeowners, farmers, and small business to use solar, wind, and biogas from farm waste and use geo heat exchange and plugin hybrid conservation technology.

Forget carbon offsetting or trading or taxing.  None of it makes much sense when carefully examined.   Just withdraw subsidies from carbon intensive energy to pay for the 10 cent per kwh subsidy.  

That will cause industry to pass on costs to consumers, a tax they will claim.  it raises prices like a tax, but it is really an end to corporate welfare that will eventually lower energy costs.

It is a trading scheme, in that it withdraws huge amounts of money from the carbon energy industry and puts it into renewables.  A big trade.

It's an offset, because everyone using it will pay more, and the amount they pay will be in turn invested in renewables directly.  With a payout directly to investors in their own solar panels or wind farm.

No middle men, no hedge funds, no "non-profit" offset industry, no nonsense about burning biomass being carbon neutral.  Just the facts, produce a GHG free kwh, get 10 cents.  Save a kwh (or it's fuel equivalent) and get 10 cents.