Ways to offset your carbon footprint
Below are links to organizations that sell Renewable Energy Credits (REC), support the development of renewable energy sources, and invest in projects that reduce greenhouse gas.
Bonneville Environmental Foundation
You can offset the environmental damage caused by your home, travel, and business by choosing an equal amount of BEF Green Tags that come from wind, solar and other renewable, non-polluting sources.
Carbon Fund
Reduce What You Can, Offset What You Can’t TM , and make a difference today! Carbonfund.org supports carbon-reducing projects such as renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects.
Green-e
Green-e is the nation's leading independent consumer protection program for the sale of renewable energy and greenhouse gas reductions in the retail market. Green-e offers certification and verification of renewable energy and greenhouse gas mitigation products.
Climate Trust
The Climate Trust invests funding from power plants, businesses, organizations and individuals into projects that offset the GHG emissions resulting from activities such as generating electricity, running a business, driving, flying, heating a home, etc.
Native Energy
We offer traditional renewable energy credits (RECs) and offsets from operating new projects, enabling you to help build market demand for clean energy and other CO 2 mitigation projects. We offer our premium “help build” RECs and offsets that enable your purchase to help directly finance new construction of specific new renewable energy projects that need additional revenues to get up and running.
Carbon Footprint Calculators
Use these tools to learn how to reduce your carbon footprint at home and in the office.
Carbon Footprint Calculator
The SafeClimate carbon footprint calculator allows you to determine carbon dioxide emissions from major sources: home energy consumption and transportation by car and plane.
Personal Emission Calculator
EPA has developed tools to help individuals (and households) reduce greenhouse gas emissions and take action. Businesses and organizations interested in educating their employees and members about what they can do at home to help protect our climate can also use these tools.
Your Recycling Program and Climate
EPA and its partners have developed several tools to help individuals and organizations determine the greenhouse (GHG) impact of their purchasing, manufacturing, and waste management actions.
Calculate your office footprint
Carbon offsetting is the third and final step in office greening after resource conservation and sustainable purchasing.
Carbon Footprint from BP
This tool helps you to estimate your household carbon footprint and shows how different lifestyle choices, household features and new technologies affect the size of your footprint.
Carbon Emissions and Air Quality are part of larger ecological systems. Click here to access Ecological Footprint Calculators for calculating your lifestyle’s impact on natural resources.