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Carbonfund.org Is Offsetting Over 3 Billion Pounds of Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Carbonfund.org is proud to announce it is offsetting over 3 billion pounds of carbon dioxide—more than many countries emit in an entire year. These offsets were made possible by donations from hundreds of thousands of individuals, and hundreds of businesses, including household names like Dell, Orbitz, JetBlue, Amtrak, and Volkswagen.
“Three billion pounds is a staggering number, equivalent to offsetting the CO2 emission of 154 million gallons of gas, or the electricity use of 180,000 homes for a year,” said Eric Carlson, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Carbonfund.org. “We started Carbonfund.org five years ago to help make it easy and affordable for everyone to mitigate their carbon impact, and the results we are seeing today support that goal.”
Over 400,000 individuals and 900 business partners have contributed to Carbonfund.org to fight global warming. Working with a wide variety of donors is one of the organization’s core strengths.
“I love their carbon calculators; they are accurate and help me save money by allowing me to reduce my exact carbon impact,” said Kiki Jenkins, Carbonfund.org donor and conservation scientist, “their verified projects help me reliably offset my emissions, and that is very important to me.”
Carbonfund.org has supported a variety of projects in its march toward three billion pounds of offsets. These projects are located across the country and even across the globe. Paso Pacifico’s Return to Forest project is planting trees in Nicaragua, while the Tensas River reforestation project is helping restore wetland areas in rural Louisiana. In Garner, Iowa, we’ve supported the Hancock Wind Energy Center, and in Massachusetts we’ve supported the New Bedford Landfill Methane The Truck Stop Electrification project helps long-haul truckers cut their exhaust emissions across the entire United States, To find out more about the high-quality, third-party-verified projects Carbonfund.org has supported, visit our Projects page.
Thank you to all our donors who have made this milestone possible. We truly could have not accomplished it without you.
