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Trailblazing in the Convention Management Industry

For the first time, the Professional Convention Management Association’s Annual Meeting set a goal to be CarbonFree®. Through a sponsorship with Fairmont Hotel & Resorts, PCMA is leading the industry by offsetting the direct emissions of their convention in Dallas, Texas. They have made it easy for their attendees to offset their individual [...]

Congratulations Nika! Partner Wins Award for Most Significant Impact by a Business

Carbonfund.org congratulates our partner Nika as the first business to win San Diego’s “Most Significant Impact by a Business” Stay Classy award presented in part by NBC Sandiego.com.
Nika has taken bottled water and turned it into a social, environmental, and economic mission; they invest 100% of their profits into clean water projects in Latin America, [...]

Lafarge Makes Wildlife Habitat Council MOU Signing CarbonFree®

Building on their environmental leadership, Lafarge has made the Wildlife Habitat Council’s (WHC) recent MOU signing with the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development (USBCSD) CarbonFree®.  Working together, the WHC and USBCSD will help the public and private sectors support sustainability, ecosystem services, wildlife habitat, education and community outreach projects.
David Carroll of Lafarge, a [...]

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 [...]

Study Abroad now CarbonFree® with IES Abroad

IES Abroad gives their students more than a great study abroad experience – they help their students make a difference in the fight against climate change. Even if you’re not attending their newly established Environmental Studies & Sustainability program in Germany’s black forest, IES has made it easy to calculate and offset your abroad [...]

Fashion For A Cause

Fashion Fights Poverty is causing waves in the fashion community by making this year’s Annual Benefit CarbonFree®. Every year Fashion Fights Poverty brings the top eco and ethical high-end fashion designers to the nation’s capital. In what the Washington Post describes as “one of the largest fashion fundraisers in Washington, DC,” the Annual [...]

Kneeboarding: Now Without Carbon

The American Kneeboarding National Championships has gone CarbonFree® for the second year in a row.  In addition, they have taken our motto – Reduce What you Can, Offset What You Can’t to heart.  They’ve located all event activities within a half mile of each other to reduce travel and have strived to keep non-renewable resources [...]

Now it’s Your Turn to Talk

Here at Carbonfund.org we like to hear what our donors have to say. It helps us in the office keep perspective on why we’re doing what we’re doing. And our donors come from a broad range of perspectives. Some were concerned about climate change’s negative impacts and wanted to do the right [...]

Choosing which Carbonfund.org project type to support?

Carbonfund.org has always believed that it’s Your Carbon, Your Choice™. So how do you choose? Take a page from the Society for College and University Planning’s book. They gave all the readers of their blog the opportunity to vote on whether they want to support our Reforestation, Renewable Energy, or Energy Efficiency [...]

YouRenew.com Makes Splash with Giant iPhone 3GS

Dressed as a giant iPhone, Carbonfund.org CarbonFree® Partner YouRenew.com’s Co-Founder Rich Littlehale greeted customers at Apple’s flagship store in Midtown Manhattan. He spread the word of environmental responsibility by encouraging all 3GS buyers to recycle their old cell phones. YouRenew’s innovative approach pays you to recycle your old electronics. It’s simple: Just [...]