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Hyundai Genesis sales pay for forest preservation and restoration projects

Last fall, Hyundai announced that for every Genesis sedan sold during the 2009 model year it would make carbon offset grants equivalent to the CO2 emissions of those cars. Six months into the program, Hyundai Motor America is now paying out the first award grants totaling over $100,000. Three grants of $35,000 each are going to programs in Peru, Mozambique, and Kenya. The Peruvian project is meant to battle deforestation in the Alto Mayo Protected Forest while new trees are being planted in Mozambique to rehabilitate forests that have already ... Read more →

Owner of 2-engine sweepers taking time to calculate carbon footprint, and do something about it Mike Magda

The big sweeper trucks in Michael Wagoner's fleet each run two engines; one to propel the vehicle and one to operate the giant sweeping brush. Since he's a little picky about numbers, he knows that ...

More on TerraPass and other voluntary offset programs Sebastian Blanco

The other day, I wrote about TerraPass, a way to buy your way out of your car’s polluting ways, a sort of indulgence for the modern age. TerraPass is just one such sticker-based way to announce ...

Hyundai Genesis sales pay for forest preservation and restoration projects 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Last fall, Hyundai announced that for every Genesis sedan sold during the 2009 model year it would make carbon offset grants equivalent to the CO2 emissions of those cars. Six months into the program, Hyundai Motor America is now paying out the first award grants totaling over $100,000. Three ...

Owner of 2-engine sweepers taking time to calculate carbon footprint, and do something about it 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The big sweeper trucks in Michael Wagoner's fleet each run two engines; one to propel the vehicle and one to operate the giant sweeping brush. Since he's a little picky about numbers, he knows that his firm logs 357,000 miles and uses just over 56,000 gallons of fuel annually. With that information, ...

More on TerraPass and other voluntary offset programs 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The other day, I wrote about TerraPass, a way to buy your way out of your car’s polluting ways, a sort of indulgence for the modern age. TerraPass is just one such sticker-based way to announce that, “yeah, I drive but I’m considerate”, as this New York Time article ...


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