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Clean Air Cab: Carbon Neutral Taxi Co.

Our new partner, Clean Air Cab, is a carbon neutral taxi company serving the Phoenix metro area.  In addition to purchasing carbon offsets from Carbonfund.org, they go above and beyond and also plant ten trees per month for each cab they have on the road.  For October, Clean Air Cab has planted 260 trees!  They [...]

Climate Refugees

As sea levels rise, the picture of a new kind of refugee emerges.  Climate refugees are people displaced by global warming and related environmental disasters. Hundreds of thousands of these refugees have already been displaced from permanently flooded coastal areas in places like Bohla Island in Bangladesh and the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea.  [...]

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 [...]

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.

First Commuter Bike Station on East Coast Opens in D.C.

The Union Station Bike Transit Center, dubbed the first commuter bike station on the East Coast, in D.C. is having its grand opening and accepting memberships online. To learn about the offerings and memberships at the 100+ bike facility, visit the Bikestation site. Bike and Roll, a leading bicycle rental and tours company, is handling [...]

Carbonfund.org Partner Virgin America Named Official Airline of Governors’ Global Climate Summit

Virgin America is the Official Domestic Airline of the Governors’ Second Annual Climate Summit in Los Angeles from Sept. 30-Oct. 2.  Also, Virgin America released its first annual Climate Report today describing their unique sustainability efforts and emissions data for 2008.  When Virgin America launched in 2007 they took great care to incorporate sustainability into [...]

Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act Released

USA Today’s Traci Watson reports that the draft of the Senate bill released today calls for 20% reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.  This is an increase from the 17% reduction required by the House bill.  The bill would initiate a cap-and-trade system much like the House bill, and would also provide financial assistance [...]

Pollution Reduction Bill Made Stronger

Bloomberg’s Jim Efstathiou Jr. reports that the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has prepared a “discussion draft” requiring deeper reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than the levels approved by the House.
The draft, which will be released on Wednesday, calls on U.S. companies to reduce their impact 20 percent by the year 2020, rather than [...]