The Bonneville Environmental Foundation hit the red carpet, rode along with the President and partnered with a National Park over the winter to continue to bring new renewable energy to the country.
The nation-wide tour began in January, when the Natural Resources Defense Council offset President Obama’s motorcade ride from the White House to Capital Hill for the State of the Union speech in Washington D.C. NRDC purchased BEF Carbon Offsets for the ride.
“Offsetting the president’s motorcades is meant to put on tonight’s agenda an awareness of the need to move America more vigorously toward a clean-energy economy, and that personal actions matter,” said Peter Lehner, executive director of NRDC, in a press release.
The motorcade offset marks the second time BEF has worked to green an event for President Obama. In May, 2010, BEF partnered with NRDC to offset the travel of 2,600 attendees to the White House Corresponent’s Dinner.
BEF’s 2011 tour continued in February, when it landed at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for the 53rd GRAMMY Awards. The Recording Academy purchased BEF Renewable Energy Credits to offset the power needs of the event.
Later that month, BEF and the National Park Service partnered to provide collectable Carbon Offset Stickers at Lewis & Clark National Historical Park near Astoria, Oregon.
The stickers cost $2.00 and will create 100-kilowatt hours of clean, renewable energy each, or enough to offset the pollution associated with a typical drive to the park.