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Eco-Friendly Credit Cards from Brighter Planet EcoLifestyle
Posted May 12, 2008 by Trish Smith Comments [2]

Brighter Planet, a company which offers products that help individuals and companies fight global warming, has teamed with Bank of America to provide customers credit cards that can reduce their carbon footprint and fund renewable energy projects.

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These cards are part of Bank of America’s new $20 billion 10-year initiative to support sustainable businesses.

You can read more about Bank of America’s green initiatives here.

The Cards

If you sign up for a Brighter Planet Check Card a percentage of what you spend will help fund renewable energy projects that can help reduce carbon emissions.

Brighter Planet works with Native Energy, a top supplier of carbon offsets, and uses these offsets to fund projects that help build wind turbines, farm methane and solar panels.

A Brighter Planet Visa Credit Card offers even more amazing incentives. For every dollar spent you can acquire points that will fund renewable projects each month.

When you reach 1,000 points you will offset one ton of carbon emissions, which is equivalent to taking a car off the road for 2,000 miles.

Just click on the card to apply:

brigher planet visa credit 

Even if you’re not interested in a credit card, but you’d like to buy some carbon offsets, Brighter Planet offers a variety of them here.

bank of america logo
This partnership between Brighter Planet and Bank of America is a great way for you to feel good about making credit card purchases, but an even better way to help you get involved in the green movement.

Hopefully more banks will catch on to this green idea.

Tags: green initiatives, green products, carbon footprint, enery digg it
    
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Gloria May 19, 2008, 11:11PM
A discount on green products would be nice too. Bet a lot of people would sign up for it.
    
     
Ryan Jun 02, 2008, 3:53PM
Bank of America is one of the worst companies as far as ecological functions go. They fund mountain top removal for coal mining, as well as deforestation... the list goes on and they also contribute large amounts to the republican party. The irony is rich.
    
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