How it works
- Sign up for a Brighter Planet checking account online. You can also apply at your local Bank of America branch.
- Every time you use your Brighter Planet Visa Check Card, a percentage of your spending will help fund renewable energy projects across the country.
- Visit brighterplanet.com to read about the projects you support and share your commitment with your friends and family.
The Brighter Planet Visa Check Card is provided by Bank of America.
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions,
serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and
large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset
management and other financial and risk-management products and
services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United
States, serving more than 57 million consumer and small business
relationships with more than 5,700 retail banking offices, more than
17,000 ATMs and award-winning online banking with more than 23 million
active users.
The Brighter Planet Visa Check Card is part of Bank of America’s $20 billion commitment announced in March 2007 to support the growth of environmentally sustainable business activity to address global climate change. This ten-year initiative encourages development of environmentally sustainable business practices through lending, investing, philanthropy and the creation of new products and services.
To learn more please visit bankofamerica.com/environment.
The projects you help build
When you use your Brighter Planet Visa Check Card, you help build a geographically and technologically diverse portfolio of renewable energy projects that reduce carbon emissions. The carbon offsets created when you use your Brighter Planet Visa Check Card:
- are created through the construction and operation of U.S. renewable energy projects (such as wind turbines, farm methane, and solar panels).
- come from projects approved by the Brighter Planet Project Selection Committee.
- meet the requirements of our Carbon Offset Policy, created with guidance from industry experts and the Brighter Planet Advisory Board.
Brighter Planet’s current exclusive supplier of these premium offsets is
NativeEnergy, the only US provider recommended by Tufts
University's comprehensive report and one of only three US firms to receive Clean Air-Cool
Planet's top rating (A Consumers’ Guide to Retail Carbon Offset Providers, Clean Air–Cool Planet, 2006).