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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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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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Now you can track the life of your t-shirt from the farm to the factory to your back, and everywhere in between!
Anvil Knitwear, Inc. announced the launch of TrackMyT.com, a groundbreaking, interactive website that chronicles and brings to life the complete journey and environmental impact of a t-shirt, from cottonseed to consumer. The site, which [...]

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Looking for an eco-friendly courier service in the Atlanta, GA area?  Look no further than AQuickDelivery, the area’s fastest and most reliable same-day messenger service in the greater Atlanta area.  They have the capability of delivering anything to anywhere in the area in less than an hour, and you can even place orders online.  AQuickDelivery [...]

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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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This past October, CarbonFree® Partner Greenline Paper was interviewed on the Green America website.  This is a great discussion that highlights what our partner is doing in their everyday business to fight global warming and reduce waste.  Read the full interview here.  Having been in operation since 1992, Greenline has been a dependable source for [...]

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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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