Comments on: Guest Post from Wide Open Wallet

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:30:51 +0000

I’m not too sure about the whole carbon credit myself. It seems like a way to justify over-consumption and feel good about yourself. I’d rather keep the money and use it for good works that I know are working.

By: tiffanie

tiffanie — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:13:31 +0000

like Matt M stated in the comments, I’m still not sold on the idea of carbon credits either. I think it’s kind of a bunch of baloney.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:49:52 +0000

I think any way that will help the planet is great. I don’t know much, or anything really, about green credit cards. Thanks for opening my eyes to this concept. I’ll have to check out Matt’s post as well.

By: Matt M

Matt M — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:54:17 +0000

I’m still not sold on carbon credits.

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:23:39 +0000

With all charities and carbon offsets I’d rather make a conscious choice to give to them rather than giving credit card reward points.

By: Ashley @ Wide Open Wallet

Ashley @ Wide Open Wallet — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:59:04 +0000

To Matt: Oh wow… that seems like a great card. Thanks for the info!

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:37:01 +0000

Right now money is too tight (lost job … now working to create own business) to participate in the purchase of Carbon Offsets; Still, I do work to make my own footprint smaller by choosing food with less packaging, cloth napkins/plates/utensils over disposables, etc.

I appreciate the bargain Matt pointed out when using Greenpay.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:37:35 +0000

I blog about carbon offsetting, and the GE & B of A card are not as good as the Greenpay card. GreenPay is offering:

* 10 pounds of CO reduction for each $1 of eligible net purchases for gasoline and household utilities
* 5 pounds of CO2 reduction for each $1 of other eligible net purchases
* 5 pounds of CO2 reduction for each $1 of other eligible net purchases
* New account bonus: 10,000 pounds of C2 (which is the average annual CO2 emission of a car in the U.S will be removed as a bonus for your first card purchase
* reductions are independently certified

1 ton is approximately 2200 pounds. You would have to spend $1,000 to offset 1 ton with Brighter Planet. You would have to spend $440 dollars with Greenpay for that same 1 ton.

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By: Livingalmostlarge

Livingalmostlarge — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:00:15 +0000

Would love to win the book.