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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 [...]

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Recently, the travel agency Responsible Travel stopped providing their customers with the opportunity to offset their travel and apparently hasn’t replaced their offering with anything to help individuals reduce their travel footprint. Responsible Travel had offered their customers the opportunity to offset their carbon emissions since 2002. The general argument for the company so far [...]

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The United Nation’s State of the World Population 2009 has revealed that women have, on average, a smaller carbon footprint than men.
The smaller carbon footprint of women is due to a variety of reasons. For example, it seems women are more likely than men to take proactive steps to reduce their carbon footprint such as [...]

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Yesterday I had the privilege of attending the first press conference of the Maryland GreenHawks, a professional basketball team that is about “more than basketball,” said Tom Doyle, the CEO and President of the Premier Basketball League.  New Head Coach Rob Spon is hungry for a championship after coaching the PBL team Manchester Millrats last [...]

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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, [...]

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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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Do you own a car? Do you receive a car statement in the mail each month? That paper statement coming twelve times a year for the five or six years for your loan produces quite a bit of waste that you simply recycle or file away to later toss. Now image this [...]

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Exciting news! NIKA Water has reached the finals for the 1st Annual Classy Awards recognizing philanthropic achievements in the San Diego community.
Specifically, NIKA has been nominated for the “Most Significant Impact by a Business” category and it’s down to one of five finalists out of hundreds. So for NIKA to pull this out we are going to [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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