Companies that Carbon Offset

I have been doing carbon offsets of various sorts for 2 years now, trying to make sure my family is carbon neutral or better. And I encourage you to do the same. I recommend either Carbonfund.org or Native Energy.

But it occurs to me that another way to be green is to patronize companies that do carbon offsets. So I want to direct your attention to the list of business and organizational partners that these two offset programs work with to offset the carbon use of those businesses.

Here are some of the companies that do offsets through Native Energy:

Ben and Jerry's ice cream (YUM!)
Cliff Bar
Dave Matthews Band
Aveda
Green Mountain Coffee
Annie's Homegrown Foods
Stoneyfield Farms
Seventh Generation (we buy lots of their paper and cleaning products)
An Inconvenient Truth

Here is the list from Carbonfund.org. There are, quite wonderfully, too many to list. But here are some highlights:

1-800 Courier
2020 Vision
Allstate Insurance (the company I use)
alonovo (a business owned by one of my readers...check them out!)
Babies Online
California Pacific Designs
Calvert Group (I used to invest with them)
Discover Magazine
Esurance (they are a progressive company I have talked with before)
Flower Petal.com
Grounds for Change (Fair trade coffee)
Hansen’s
Green Fleet Car Service, LLC (New Jersey)
Green Taxi Cab, LLC
Hotels Combined Pty Ltd (hotel rate comparisons and reservations)
New York Dermatology Group
Online Trade & Technology Group LLC
Orbitz (the site I most often use to book flights)
Oxfam America (great charity!)
PlanetShoes.com
Propel Biofuels
Ravelry, LLC (my wife loves them!)
RealtyOnlineAdvertising.com
Staples
Surfing Magazine
Volkswagen

Interestingly, here is a list of politicians who do carbon offsets through Carbonfund.org:
Chris Dodd for President
Senator Diane Feinstein’s Congressional Office
Fred Klaske for Assembly
Friends of Pete Harckham
Senator Robert Menendez Office & Campaign
Jane Mitakides 2008 Campaign

I urge you to patronize the companies that work with these two carbon offset programs. And, if you do, you might let them know to encourage them.