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Organization Impacts Climate

By Terri Rimmer

Working Assets has gone climate neutral by teaming up with a company to reduce climate impact.

With Carbonfund.org now anyone can contribute to the prevention of global warming.

Working Assets, an environment-conscious long distance, wireless, and credit card company, donating revenues to nonprofit groups, announced Nov. 10th that they have formed a partnership with Carbonfund.org, a carbon offset provider.

“We’ve always planted trees to offset the effects of our business’s paper use,” said Working Asset‘s President Michael Kieschnick in a press release. “Carbonfund is a breath of fresh air, providing a simple and affordable solution to climate change any
person can take.”

With Working Assets help Carbonfund is supporting the Rosebud Sioux Wind farm on Native American lands in South Dakota, said Kieschnick.

Working Assets also has announced they will match an additional five tons of offset for every customer who goes Zero Carbon, Carbonfund’s program to reduce climate impact, at the $99 per year level, according to Carbonfund.

“We are thrilled to have Working Assets as a partner in the fight against change,” said Carbonfund President Lesley Marcus Carlson on the Carbonfund website.

Since 1985 Working Assets has generated over $47 million for progress including Greenpeace, Oxfam America, Rainforest Action Network, Human Rights Watch, and numerous others, according to Carbonfund.

For just $4.58 per month you can offset your direct emissions for a year. You can also go Zero Carbon for $8.25 monthly to offset entire climate impact when you buy clothes, food, for roads, and other items and Carbonfund will offset an extra five tons free.

Carbonfund uses donations to support wind energy, energy efficiency, and reforestation projects that reduce climate change, stated their website.

Carbonfund is made up of professionals from all over the environmental community, including the private sector, government, and nonprofit areas.

With the holidays approaching the company has already filled several gas orders as far away as the UK.

Besides their regular or wind offsets this holiday season Carobonfund is also working with UNICEF to spread donations.

The deadline for holiday orders is Dec. 20th.

On Nov. 7th Goodbaker, a vegan gourmet company announced they were going ‘Zero Carbon’ by offsetting their climate impact through Carbonfund.

“Goodbaker is another small and dynamic firm that has taken the local step to offset the carbon they produce,” wrote Carlson.

“As a young business, viability is a constant concern,” said Lee Busch, CEO of Goodbaker in an interview with Carbonfund.

Goodbaker makes artisan baking mixes easy to prepare with whole, unrefined organic ingredients.


Source: Working Assets, workingassets.com

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