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Climate Matters Video Contest Winners Announced
October 21, 2008—The winners of a user-generated video contest meant to inspire our next President to take bold action on climate change were announced this morning—and inspiring they are. (Treehugger)
Video Winners Warn on Warming
October 21, 2008—Winners have been chosen in an online video contest aimed at inspiring the next president, Congress and the public to take meaningful action on human-caused climate change. (The New York Times)
Green School Fundraising with Carbon Offsets
September 5, 2008—While there may be no doubt that school fundraising of all angles is a standard of the educational system in America and beyond, there’s one product that you just may never heard of being used to help raise funds for schools; carbon offsets. (Treehugger)
No more bottled water
August 29, 2008—The grand prize is a commuter bike and a trip for two to Montana’s Glacier National Park. The glacier at the park is melting due to global warming. The trip’s sponsor, Brighter Planet, will buy carbon offsets for the impact of your flight to Montana, of course. (Washington Business Journal)
Gillian Caldwell: Following the Lead of a 10-year-old
August 25, 2008—[...] when Nikos was 8 in the summer of 2007, Nikos experienced countless forest fires... helping to open his eyes to the severity of global warming and the need for urgent action to tackle this climate crisis. Nikos was inspired to make a powerful global warming video... (Huffington Post)
Climate Change Comes to Credit Cards
August 8, 2008—For the individual citizen, climate change can seem overwhelming. How can one person make a difference? There are ways, though, like carpooling and swapping out incandescent light bulbs for fluorescents. And now another option is available--the climate change credit card. [WorldofGood]
Climate video contest
August 4, 2008—The Climate Matters Video Context has already attracted some funny, sharp homemade videos. (Business Week)
Sixty seconds to make climate matter
August 1, 2008—If you had 60 seconds to talk to our next president and other political leaders about climate change, what would you say? (Grist)
Carbon Entrepreneurs
August 1, 2008—In this WIDE ANGLE web exclusive, we’ll hear from three different carbon entrepreneurs from around the world, each with his own plan for using market forces to protect the environment... Jake Whitcomb of Brighter Planet in Middlebury... (PBS)
Eight Ways to Get Users to Fill Out Their Profiles
August 1, 2008—Eco-credit card company Brighter Planet tracks your personal ecological impact, but starts each user out with the median numbers for people in their geographic area and works backwards. (ReadWriteWeb)
Responsible Credit Cards
June 24, 2008—Brighter Planet Visa Card (9.99% apr, no annual fee): Another affinity card that directs dollars to a ton of greenhouse-gas reductions through NativeEnergy for every thousand dollars spent through its card. (Co-op America)
Brighter Planet Joins the Ceres Company Network
June 23, 2008—Citing the companies’ commitment to improving their social and environmental performance and reporting, Ceres today announced that it has approved Brighter Planet.
How Green Banking Pays You Back
June 5, 2008—The points are automatically redeemed each month in support of renewable energy projects... (U.S. News and World Report)
Brighter Planet and 350.org Challenge Bloggers to Offset Carbon Emissions With Onsite Badge
May 30, 2008—[...] a Vermont start-up committed to fighting climate change [...] will offset 350 pounds of carbon in the name of bloggers who post a nifty badge on their site. It's like being in the Cub or Girl Scouts... (Treehugger)
Bank of America's Online Appeal to the Green Consumer Soars
February 28, 2008—Since the card is environmentally friendly, it makes sense that it would attract the attention of those consumers who are environmentally conscious and in turn show that behavior on the internet. (Seeking Alpha)