It may not be a brand new idea, but it is certainly a new idea in the UK, the Carbon Cred Card which gives the user credits for buying goods in certain places.

It works like a store reward card, firstly you shop online, there 1000’s around the UK, for every purchase that has been made the user collects points and with the points that are collected the user will be able to buy carbon reducing products or even to pay for green energy.

There are some great tools on the site like the carbon emission tool which will give users an idea of what sort figure they are looking at for their carbon footprint, so they know how much they will have to account for!

Source [CarbonCred.it]

For entrepreneurs, you get to a point where you will finally decide on what business to run in line with the green standards and requirements the world is carefully setting out today. But before a green business can fully operate and run smoothly, the source of energy may be something that they may want to consider.

Green energy sources are the topping of the entire green business once it commences. Running a green business from start to finish is something that will surely be a fitting stance with regards to going green all the way.

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Don’t you love a delicious brew of great coffee in the morning? I know, i do. Let me introduce you to Blue Smoke, a coffee retailer and carbon neutral coffee roaster. This is what they have to say about their environmentally friendly policies, “we offset 100% of the energy used in roasting your coffee by purchasing renewable green-energy blocks, what this means is that the amount of energy we consume in roasting your coffee is offset by the purchase of green-energy originating from environmentally friendly energy generation from sources such as the sun, wind, water, and biomass”.

Blue Smoke’s coffee is also certified as fair trade, “which means the growers are paid a fair, living wage for their crop”. They have delicious varieties to choose from and in different sizes of bags.

You can find Blue Smoke Coffee through this list.

“Green Caps for Green Energy” is Silk Soymilk’s latest campaign for promoting the use of renewable energy. Silk Soymilk is one of the largest U.S. based brands using 100% wind energy to make their products. “Just click the green cap icon and enter a UPC number at the Silk Soymilk.com, and you will be boosting overall green power contribution by 30 kilowatt hours - enough to power an average home for a day”. Go Green with Wind Energy is a unique and entertaining method that gets the message across by large companies that are wanting to educate the public on alternative forms of energy. Thumbs up to Green Caps for Green Energy.