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Business Travel gets Carbon Offsetting Tool with TerraPass
This week, TerraPass launched a tool allowing businesses to measure and monitor their carbon emissions associated with their operations, including business travel. Aptly named the “Carbon Balanced Business Program”, the online carbon calculator analyzes five areas that typically inflate a company’s carbon footprint. Businesses usually generate carbon emissions through on-site energy use, off-site server [...]
Enterprise sets Precedence of Green Rentals with Carbon Offset Program
This past September, execs from Enterprise Rent-A-Car met with representatives of TerraPass, a 14-employee San Francisco-based upstart that specializes in carbon offsets. Enterprise, the operator of the largest fleet of rental cars in the world (1.1 million vehicles), has reportedly been interested in the carbon offsetting game for quite some time.
Enterprise partners with TerraPass for Carbon Offsets
Enterprise Rent-A-Car has announced a new partnership with TerraPass, the most popular travel related arbon-offsetting programs available today.
Carbon Offset Buyers Go Beyond Surface Green
by Emily Gertz
Is buying personal carbon offsets for dirty-fueled travel an effective way to compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating up the Earth? And does buying them amount to an indulgence, an excuse for buyers to avoid making more substantial changes in how they live, or demanding sane climate policies?
Ensuring Carbon Offsets Are Real
by Sheryl Canter, Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.
Carbon offsets are a good idea that, unfortunately, without guidelines, can be implemented badly. The basic idea is to reduce and then offset the carbon emissions produced by your lifestyle by funding projects that reduce carbon emissions elsewhere. This works because, from a global warming [...]
TerraPass Does Survey, Feels Better About Self
by Hank Green
TerraPass is one of the world’s leading providers of carbon offsets. Basically, if you feel bad about all the carbon you’re producing, you can give them some money, and they’ll fund projects that offset your contributions to global warming.
Study says low-carbon research offers big payoff
It would cost up to $1.8 trillion to dramatically reduce U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, but spending $35 billion on research into cutting edge technology for nuclear and low-emission coal plants could cut the price tag in half, researchers said on Monday.
