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How to Be a Part of the Solution By Doing What You Do Anyway
Last year, Americans spent over $966 billion on new consumer goods—70% of our gross domestic product.
Imagine if even a small percentage of that went to carbon reduction projects—millions of trees could be planted. Economies of scale could drive the price of solar and wind power below coal, leading to a market revolution. Instead of worsening the problem, our consumer society could help fund solutions.
This vision is a little closer to reality thanks to Carbonfund.org partner myFREEoffsets.com. myFREEoffsets.com invites you to help solve this problem by continuing to do something you probably do anyway: shop online.
Access your favorite online retailers through their link on myFreeoffsets.com site and generate free carbon offsets equivalent in value to up to 8% of your shopping total. These carbon offsets help negate the harmful environmental impact of the things you buy.
It is in everybody’s interest to reduce carbon emissions. With this in mind, over 350 participating retailers have partnered with myFREEoffsets.com to offer consumers precisely this: free carbon offsets to help reduce the negative environmental impact of the products you buy. When you make purchases online through myFREEoffsets.com, participating retailers pay a commission to myFREEoffsets.com, which is used to offset carbon dioxide emissions with Carbonfund.org.
Why Carbonfund.org? myFREEoffsets.com had definite goals in mind for its offset provider. It wanted a broad range of offset projects and a partner with a prominent marketplace profile. It found those in Carbonfund.org. “It sounded like our missions were aligned,” said myFREEoffsets.com founder Craig Hoffman. “Carbonfund.org really stood from the other people we spoke to.”
myFREEoffsets.com was started as a collaboration between Hoffman and his brother. “We had both been activists in the past, and we wanted to increase awareness about environmental problems,” said Hoffman. “We both knew that if you’re asking someone to do something different in routine it’s an uphill battle, so we tried to figure out a way to take something that people do everyday already and put a spin on it to generate positive change in the world. That’s where myFREEffsets.com came from.”
To get started shopping and saving the world, visit www.myfreeoffsets.com.
