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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mountain Storm, West Virginia – a tale of two energies

Over Labor Day weekend I, like many, decided to flee the city to enjoy my peace in the woods. A short drive from Washington, DC to Mountain Storm, West Virginia, I found a cabin at a lovely little campsite at Abram’s Creek (the site is personally recommended: sustainable, eco-friendly and amazing staff). I went hiking, [...]

Camping: Your Low Carbon Vacation

Life is hard and filled with technology, people and all sorts of things that seem to all too often stress me out. That is why when I take a vacation the best thing for me, if I want to relax, is to get as far away from everything as possible. Camping is a great way [...]

Carbon Reduced, Economy Stimulated

With both our economy and our climate in crisis mode right now, the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ CARS program took aim at both reducing global warming emissions and spurring investment in America’s manufacturers. The program came to a close on Monday and has been deemed ‘wildly successful’ by Dept. of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
Dealers submitted 690,114 [...]

Carbonfund.org Offsets 2009 NBTA Convention, Helps Attendees Offset Their Travel

Carbonfund.org will participate in the National Business Travel Association’s 2009 Convention in San Diego, CA from August 23-26. This marks the second straight year that Carbonfund.org has offset the Convention, and this year we’ve created a website where attendees can calculate and offset the footprint resulting from their travel to San Diego.
Business travel is frequently [...]

Protect Your Skin this August with EcoStinger

This month, millions of beach-goers will hit the sand and waves to enjoy the summer weather.  After all, what better way to celebrate summer than spending a day (or week!) at the beach?  While you’re enjoying yourself, keep in mind that protection from the sun’s damaging UV rays is important while you’re at the beach [...]

Central Coast Outdoors Greens Their Office and a Vacation

Central Coast Outdoors, one of our CarbonFree® Small Business partners, is an adventure travel company based in San Luis Obispo County, California that provides outdoors tours on California’s Central Coast region, including Paso Robles wine country vacations. Their trips focus on kayaking, bicycling and hiking and they specialize in small group travel, although they have [...]

Carbonfund.org Helps Green The 2009 National Business Travel Association Convention

Carbonfund.org is thrilled to once again partner with the National Business Travel Association (NBTA) by offsetting their 2009 National Business Travel Association International Convention and Exposition held this year in San Diego from August 23-26. Carbonfund.org will retire over 100 metric tons of CO2 to offset the electricity usage of the San Diego Convention Center [...]