Brighter Planet Information

Brighter Planet develops carbon calculation and mitigation tools for US businesses and consumers, speeding the transition to a sustainable future. We help organizations improve brand, revenue, and efficiency by building sustainability analytics into their products and services. Our CM1 web service computes authoritative carbon and energy impacts from diverse input data, our application development services integrate this functionality into business and customer software systems, and our sustainability program design services conceive and deliver programs to fit core organizational goals. The Brighter Planet credit and debit cards are the leading environmental card program in the country. Hundreds of thousands of cardholders use these tools to help build renewable energy projects with every purchase, and our free footprint profiler to measure and manage their carbon impact. Since getting our start in a college classroom just a few years ago, Brighter Planet has attracted hundreds of thousands of customers, performed tens of millions of carbon calculations, and prevented hundreds of millions of pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. In 2010 we took home a Financial Times Social Innovation Award and were named Small Business of the Year by Treehugger.