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Channel Surfing with Venom’s CarbonFree® Certified Eco Alkalines

Earlier this week, the batteries in my TV’s remote control died. They had been going for awhile but I was a little too lazy to get off the couch and find a new set of batteries. When they finally went for good I realized that I had a set of AA Venom Power Eco Alkalines™. [...]

Be My Valentine: Soul Flower

13 days til Valentine’s Day!
Impress your sweetie this Valentine’s Day with a thoughtful, green gift from CarbonFree® Partner Soul Flower.  Soul Flower is a retail mail order and online store that focuses on clothing and eco-friendly goods for the entire family. A “lifestyle” store with an emphasis on products that are made from organic cotton [...]

Funds for Forest Conservation

Carbon financing has saved over 2 million hectares of forest and channeled hundreds of millions of dollars towards forest projects over the last twenty years. This has helped to preserve tens of millions of trees, improve animal habitats, and sequestered millions of tons of CO2.
Ecosystem Marketplace released a new report today entitled, State of the [...]

Chino Basin Dairy Farm Biodigester

Project Name:: Chino Basin Dairy Farm Biodigester
Location: Chino Basin, California
Project type: Waste-to-Energy Biodigester
Standard: American Carbon Registry / Environmental Resources Trust’s Monitoring, Reporting & Verification Protocol
Verification/Validation: Environmental Resources Trust

Environmental Benefits

Mitigates climate change
Waste management
Odor control and less localized air pollution
Reduction of local water pollution

Community Benefits

Locally sourced, renewable energy
Development of new technologies and additional jobs created

Project Description
Carbonfund.org supports [...]

Green Gifts: Carbonfund.org Offers Tree Planting Bonus This Year & More

This year many people are looking for meaningful gifts and flexibility in how much to spend. Giving Carbonfund.org’s carbon offset certificates let you help someone reduce their carbon footprint meaningfully while supporting renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects.
Choose to reduce from 1 ton to 50 tons, or take care of someone’s annual carbon footprint [...]

Is Taking Away a Travel Option Really Progress?

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 [...]

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 [...]

Venom Eco Alkalines Take a Bite Out of Batteries’ Carbon Footprint

Today, Venom Power announced the release of its new Eco Alkaline™ batteries. These eco-responsible batteries feature:

Zero mercury
Zero cadmium
Zero lead
Zero carbon footprint, courtesy of Carbonfund.org’s product certification program, featuring the first carbon neutral label in the US.

The Venom Power Eco Alkaline batteries have been certified carbon neutral after a detailed product life-cycle assessment. The assessment [...]

Maldives Making Policy Under Water

The Maldives government ministers have scheduled a Cabinet meeting at the bottom of the ocean. In an attempt to raise awareness of the acute threat to the low lying country that global warming induced sea level rise poses, the Cabinet meeting will be held 20 feet underwater.
The ministers will wear scuba gear for the gathering [...]

The Carbon Offset Survey Says…

EcoSecurities is about to launch the second iteration of their Carbon Management and Offsetting Trends Survey Results new and improved for 2009. The survey participants included 280 companies and 31 carbon offset organizations from all over the world to gain insights into green purchasing patterns and important decision making factors. Carbonfund.org participated in the survey [...]