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Bambeco’s 10 Holiday Tips: Offset Your Travel with Carbonfund.org

Thank you Bambeco for including offsetting one’s holiday travel with Carbonfund.org as a holiday green tip. Bambeco is a stylish eco-retailer launched on Earth Day and has quickly developed a fan following. The company’s mission is to offer an appealing, comprehensive selection of green products. Check out their seasonal and holiday home furnishings at www.bambeco.com.
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Choose Carbonfund.org for Your Combined Federal Campaign Donation (CFC# 62681)

If you, a family member, or someone else you know is an employee of the federal government, donations can still be made to the Combined Federal Campaign to approved charities. Carbonfund.org is an approved charity of the government’s donations drive. It’s a great way to support our carbon offset projects, in renewable energy, energy efficiency [...]

Stay Connected with Carbonfund.org Blog for Developments at UN Climate Conference

With the Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference set to begin in about a month, we’ll be blogging on developments regarding the conference. Carbonfund.org has been advocating for strong climate legislation by the US to reduce the country’s contribution to global warming. In addition, we have educated and outreached on global warming to our supporters as [...]

Nation’s First College to be Carbon Neutral Supports Truck Stop Electrification Project

College of the Atlantic, the first college known to become carbon neutral, is now offsetting its emissions through Carbonfund.org and supporting the truck stop electrification project. Available in over 30 states around the country, the project enables long-haul truck drivers such as those carrying freight across states to avoid idling their engines for power and [...]

Car Free Day DC – Good Opp to Reduce What You Can, Offset What You Can’t

In the DC metro area, it’s Car Free Day, encouraging commuters to consider alternatives to driving. If more people biked, took transit or walked, not only would it free up some room on the highways and roads, it would reduce air pollution and encourage exercise. In fact, the DC metro area has some of the [...]

Newsweek Recognizes Carbonfund.org Partners for Environmental Leadership

Newsweek released its 2009 Green Rankings of America’s largest companies, and Carbonfund.org partners including Dell, Staples and Motorola came out among the leading companies!
Dell was recognized for its renewable energy use as well as having its operations carbon neutral through carbon offsets. In addition, Newsweek recognized the company for its product take-back and recycling programs. [...]

Obama Administration to Refocus on Climate Change

As we’ve been writing on the Carbonfund.org blog, there’s a growing view that action, and strong action, need to be taken on global warming- perhaps the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today. Although countries remain split on how best to arrive at an international agreement on climate change at the upcoming COP15/Copenhagen climate talks, [...]

Climate Challenges & Solutions Discussed at Leading Green Forum

The main theme at this year’s Green Intelligence Forum in Washington, DC presented by The Atlantic magazine is climate change- perhaps the greatest environmental challenge to face the world, as the problem affects every nation and ways of life. Industry, NGO and government representatives participated in today’s discussion on both policy and pragmatic approaches to [...]

Survey Finds Majority of Americans Want Strong Action on Global Warming

A survey by a research and survey firm The Mellman Group finds that a large proportion of Americans, 71%, want the country to reduce carbon emissions; moreover, the survey finds that 58% of Americans favor not just action, but strong action.
Demand for action crosses party lines. 68% of independents and 54% of Republicans want action [...]

Climate Legislation Work Continues, Senate Bill Seen in Late Sept/Oct.

With the healthcare debate in full swing, the climate change debate is on the back burner. But work on legislation and getting it passed in the Senate continues. Politics Daily Columnist Jill Lawrence interviewed former Sen. John Warner, who had some interesting remarks.
As for the status of legislation in the Senate, he said,
“The leadership of [...]