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Mongol Rally 2008 offsets CO2 emissions

Last year we spoke about the Mongol Rally and even interviewed one of the participating teams. What's this? A charity rally departing three European cities (this year: London, Milan and Madrid) that tries to reach Ulan Bator, the capital city of Mongolia. In order to participate in this rally, cars should have engines under 1 liter of capacity (and motorbikes under 125 cm3) and teams have to raise at least £1,000 to participate. This year, the Spanish teams will have a partner, Bosques Naturales, that is going to plant more than 100 ... Read more →

SoCal Honda dealers hand out reusable bags and plant trees Sebastian Blanco

In Southern California, the local Honda Dealers Association is trying to be "helpful" to the environment. That "helpful" tag is how the Association is branding itself (just check out the website) and, ...

clickair offsets CO2 emissions in forest close to base airport Xavier Navarro

Another airline has decided to give passengers the option to offset your carbon emissions when purchasing plane tickets. The latest carbon offset entrant is clickair, a low-cost company based in ...

Yokohama plants 30,000 trees near Hiratsuka Factory Xavier Navarro

In 2008, if your factories aren't the cleanest in the world, you can always compensate with some kind of carbon-balancing intervention to fix things. Such is the case of tiremaker Yokohama Rubber ...

Mongol Rally 2008 offsets CO2 emissions 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Last year we spoke about the Mongol Rally and even interviewed one of the participating teams. What's this? A charity rally departing three European cities (this year: London, Milan and Madrid) that tries to reach Ulan Bator, the capital city of Mongolia. In order to participate in this rally, cars ...

SoCal Honda dealers hand out reusable bags and plant trees 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In Southern California, the local Honda Dealers Association is trying to be "helpful" to the environment. That "helpful" tag is how the Association is branding itself (just check out the website) and, in partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation, the latest helpful move is to hand out reusable ...

clickair offsets CO2 emissions in forest close to base airport 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Another airline has decided to give passengers the option to offset your carbon emissions when purchasing plane tickets. The latest carbon offset entrant is clickair, a low-cost company based in Barcelona, Spain. The story is that, due to Barcelona's airport placement between two lagoons and a ...

Yokohama plants 30,000 trees near Hiratsuka Factory 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In 2008, if your factories aren't the cleanest in the world, you can always compensate with some kind of carbon-balancing intervention to fix things. Such is the case of tiremaker Yokohama Rubber Company (YRC), which just announced that it's going to plant half a million trees, which equal 25 acres ...


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