If you are interested in different ways to reduce your carbon footprint you can make a difference by using the Brighter Planet website.
There you can sign up to use the credit card offered by their partner, Bank of America (and choose paperless billing). Everytime you use this card you will be effectively offsetting your carbon footprint, because the points earned from your purchases are “invested on your behalf to help build renewable energy products”. Brighter Planet also offers you the ability to directly purchase carbon offsets called "Planet Shares", where you pay a fixed amount to offset a specific amount of CO2 emissions. As an example they charge $48 for a 4 ton carbon offset. Read more
