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Think Green This Halloween!

If you are still scrambling for a costume for this weekend think about how you can make your Halloween fashions more eco-friendly!
1) Store bought costumes are boring and wasteful – make your own! – Costumes from a store are often made of plastic and you probably only wear them once!  Dig deep in your closet [...]

Wedding & Event Designers Making Planning Easier, Greener

Planning a wedding is hard work.  I would know – I’m getting married in May!  It is even more work to plan an eco-friendly event, and think of how every detail impacts the environment.  That is why Elegance & Simplicity Wedding & Event Designers are so great.  They thought of EVERYTHING.  They have wind powered [...]

Map of Global Warming’s Human Impact Released

This climate change map developed by the UK government shows the predicted effects of a 4 degrees Celsius rise in global average temperatures on the way we live.  The map is interactive allowing the user to isolate different aspects of climate change and how they impact human activity.  It was launched at the Science Museum [...]

Resting Greener: Truck Stop Electrification Project

Long-haul truck drivers may stop for the night but most of the time their trucks never get a rest. The engine is idled to heat or cool their cab and to power on-board appliances during their rest period. This idling burns a gallon of diesel fuel per hour and produces noise, vibrations and [...]

Better Know a Partner: CIS Abroad

Continuing with our “Better Know a Partner” series, this week we had the chance to talk with Amanda Bernhard from CIS Abroad.  She gave us the inside scoop on how studying abroad and environmental awareness can go hand in hand.

What makes CIS so great?
There are many study abroad providers out there, but few provide [...]

Mississippi Group Files Global Warming Lawsuit

I was looking through the news today and I noticed an interesting story about how a group of people in New Orleans are suing oil and gas companies because of the role global warming played in Hurricane Katrina.
The WSJ summed it all up pretty well (read the whole article for more, obviously):
The suit was brought [...]

Give the Gift of Carbon Offsets for Sweetest Day

Saturday October 17th is Sweetest Day! Today it is celebrated as an opportunity to give small gifts to people in your life to show them that you care.

A Look at Our Projects: Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge Reforestation Project

100 years ago, the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley in Northeastern Louisiana was a wetland ecosystem that supported 22 million acres of forested habitat. After decades of land conversion for agriculture this region now supports less than 20% of that forested habitat. With help from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Trust [...]

Wedding Photos with Dreamtime Images

CarbonFree® Partner Dreamtime Images is a wedding photojournalist organization.  Run by magazine and newspaper photojournalist Nathan Welton, their style ranges from energetic and adventurous to chic and youthful.  Nathan first learned to capture life’s most fleeting moments by shooting world-class rock climbers, Tour de France cyclists, and Olympic-caliber equestrian riders.  His work has appeared in [...]

New Bedford Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project

The New Bedford Landfill Gas-to-Energy project is a renewable energy project that helps reduce the amount of energy we need to produce from dirty fuel sources like coal and oil.  The benefits of this project are two-fold: not only does it flare methane, which is about 23 times more potent as a greenhouse gas at [...]