About Brighter Planet

Brighter Planet develops innovative tools to help manage and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future.

Personal footprint tools. Our free web application lets users track their climate impact with the world's most rigorous personal carbon footprint calculator, and manage and share their actions to reduce that impact. We offer the nation's leading green credit and debit cards, an innovative way to fight climate change by helping build renewable energy projects with every purchase—the same community wind turbines, cow power installations, and other clean energy projects funded through our carbon offsets.

Crowd-powered philanthropy. Our social giving platform, wowcrowd (in private beta), lets businesses, campaigns, foundations, and other organizations engage their members by allowing them to propose, discuss, and vote on ideas to receive project funding. This service grew out of the viral success of the Project Fund, Brighter Planet's own community-powered monthly grant program for grassroots climate projects.

Carbon middleware. Our API (in private beta) lets businesses integrate authoritative carbon data from our emissions model into their own applications. Our climate data clearinghouse (also in private beta) also makes available normalized energy use and carbon emissions data sets from dozens of government agencies.

We have a small, committed team, and are proud to have some of the nation's leading environmentalists on our Project Selection Committee, our Advisory Board, and our Board of Directors. We partner with a diverse range of organizations—large and small, for profit and non-profit—all united to support solutions to the climate crisis.

Brighter Planet recently was named Small Business of the Year by Treehugger and received the Social Innovation Award for "most strategic philanthropy" from Justmeans and Financial Times.