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AAA Watch
In The News
Top Story
Partners
Recycled Content
Washington Watch
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AAA Watch |
AAA Burned By 'Ring Of Fire'
A recent broadcast of Air America's syndicated radio show
'Ring of Fire' included a jab at AAA.
Click here to listen! (The AAA comment is made shortly after the 7th minute of the broadcast.) |
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In The News |
Lazy Environmentalist Speaks to Workaholic BWC President
Always Nice to Have Mitch's Help with KA Headlines
KA Originally Said: Who's Really the Laziest Person in that Sentence?
(But Don't Tell Him You Heard It From Us)
Have you ever sat around and fantasized about what Better World Club President Mitch Rofsky's voice might sound like? If so, you've got waaaay too much time on your hands. Regardless, we at BWC don't
judge our members (except you, Nick Parrett of Norwalk, CT. We've got your number, pal). And so, we invite you to
listen to Mitch Rofsky's interview with the Lazy Environmentalist.
BWC Featured on the Tao of Change Blog
Click here to read the complete blog entry.
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Member Alert |
Gas Hysteria
Confused By The Gas Rebate Coupons?
It's best to submit your coupons every quarter and not all at once. That way, the coupons are less likely to get separated from receipts. Also, we only need one receipt per quarter and not one for every month.
As long as that receipt is at least $10 you will receive a check back for $10.
Complete Story.
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TravelCool |
Need To Get Out Of Town In A Hurry?
Try Our Spiffy New Booking Engine
Be sure to take a peek at our
'Bodacious Page of Travel Links and Resources'. Our travel links page sports a crazy HUGE number of links, so if you're planning some travel this is a great resource.
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Member Specials |
You Won't Belize Your Eyes!
Visit St. George's Caye Lodge
BWC Members Receive a 15% Discount
St. George's Caye Lodge is a private island paradise. This conveniently located island haven is a short boat ride to all inland tours. Each year, more and more travelers come to discover Belize as one of the world's most
precious natural treasures. The sense of seclusion you will find creates a truly personal experience.
Complete Story
More BWC Member Discounts:
- Member Specials featured previously in 'Kicking Asphalt'
- Eco-Travel Discounts
- Eco-Lodging Discounts
- Various Member Discounts
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Top Story |
When It Comes to Carbon Offsets, We Need You To Be More Calculating
Better World Club Provides First One-Stop Location For All Travel Needs-and the Fight to Reduce Global Warming
Reduce Your Environmental Footprint, for, as Fats Waller Said: "Your Feets Too Big!"
Waller Didn't Mention That Our Price Has Also Dropped
Better World Club was the first company in the roadside assistance, travel, and insurance industries to offer carbon offsets. Since the beginning, we've been offering our members several carbon offset options:
1.) Book a flight through Better World Travel Members who book round-trip domestic US flights
with a Better World Travel Agent will get a free carbon offset for their flight.
2.) Book a flight through the
Internet, another travel agency, or airline and
send your tax-deductible donation to offset the CO2 emissions from your flight.
3.)
Purchase auto insurance through Better World Insurance offset your car's first ton of greenhouse gas emissions free.
Now, Better World Club is pioneering a one stop website where a driver or flier can
purchase auto insurance, roadside assistance, or
flights and have the ability to
calculate and offset their travel-related carbon emissions. And the price has fallen from $11.00 per trip/ton of offset to $7.50--and sometimes less. Buy offsets from the
member site and get 10% off.
For the first time, travelers can go to one website,
www.betterworldclub.com, and purchase auto insurance and/or emergency roadside assistance protection and offset their auto emissions for one year. Flying, not driving?
Complete Story
Ready To Offset?
1.) Precisely
determine the carbon footprint of your air travel.
2.)
Easily and precisely offset the greenhouse gas emissions of your automobile (or to offset the emissions beyond the first 2,000 miles of driving if you are a Better World Club insurance client.)
Read Last Issue's Top Story:
- Happy Birthday To Us! Better World Club Turns Five Years Old!
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Contest! |
 Earth Friendly Never
Sounded So Good!
Tell Us Your Idea for an Earth Friendly CD and Win a Whole Mess of CDs from Universal Music
The Grand-Prize Winner Will Receive 20 CDs, Including a "Best-Of" Album from Academy Award-Winning Live Earth Performer Melissa Etheridge
All Prize CDs Come in Universal Music Enterprise's Fully Recyclable Eco-pak (tm) Packages
Unless you've been hanging out with Dick Cheney in an underground bunker in an undisclosed location for the last few months, you will have heard of Al Gore's Live Earth concerts for the environment on
07/07/07. You may have even watched them, along with over 2 billion other viewers.
Better World Club and Universal Music would like to help you keep the party going long after the concerts are over with a Live Earth-inspired contest.
Complete Story
"What is your idea for the perfect environmentally-friendly CD (music and packaging)?"
More Info on Universal Music's Environmentally-Friendly CDs:
Number 1's A brand new line of CDs featuring Number 1 hits from the biggest names in music. All come in Eco Friendly packaging.
20th Century Masters Millennium Collection The best selling single artist music compilation series of all time! Now available in eco friendly packaging.
Melissa Etheridge Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled In addition to her Greatest Hits, this re-packaged CD also contains the Academy Award winning song "I Need To Wake Up" from "An Inconvenient Truth". This is the first time that
this song is available on CD.
If you don't feel like entering the contest, you can buy Universal Music's environmentally-friendly CDs on Amazon.com |
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Partners |
The Safe Teen Driving Club
If Only Lindsay Lohan's Mom Had Known About These Guys...
BWC Members Receive Discounts On STDC Products And Services!
We're pleased to announce a new partnership this month with the
Safe Teen Driving Club, headquartered in Atlanta.
The Club's mission is to address the number one cause of death and injury for teenagers -- driving crashes. Many don't know that drugs, guns, alcohol, suicide, homicide and all other causes pale in comparison to driving crashes, with about
44 percent of teen deaths taking place on the highways.
Complete Story.
Check out the Safe Teen Driving Club website to learn more about the club and to take advantage of BWC member discounts on STDC products and services!
Please Validate Us!
 Not that we're needy or anything, but
we would love our members to rate us on
sustainlane.com, a community-powered directory of green products and businesses. So far,
8 out of 9 reviewers think Better World Club is perfect! The one isn't so happy with us, but no one is truly perfect, except, of course, our intelligent and good-looking members (was that too much sucking up?).
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KA - AutoErotic Edition |
Do you recall seeing more data on automobiles in Kicking Asphalt, but can't find it below? That's because we are now publishing a second edition of Kicking Asphalt. This edition, which features a variety
of distinctive, consumer-oriented features on cars--and has been dubbed 'KA AutoErotic' by one of our members, includes:
- The BWC High-Mileage Review: 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid.
- Recall Information
- Lemon Information |
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Washington Watch |
The Ice Caps Melt While Emissions Policies Remain Frozen:
Major International and Domestic Initiatives Aren't Moving Until Bush Leaves Office in 2009
There's an old saying: lead, follow, or get out of the way. When it comes to emissions policy, the Bush administration has chosen to do a bit of all three: leading the public to believe they're
actually doing something, following the wishes of the oil and automotive industries, and getting out of the way of major polluters.
Repeated use of these tactics has revealed a policy pattern. Back in June, the leaders of the G8 nations met in Germany to discuss several important global issues. German Chancellor Andrea Merkel announced prior to the meeting that the
centerpiece of the 2007 summit would be global climate change.
Complete Story
Bush sought to torpedo this initiative first by preemptively announcing his own voluntary carbon reduction plan a week before the G8 meeting. At the meeting, Bush was able to leverage his influence to make sure the final G8 resolution
lacked teeth. The result? The G8 leaders agreed to "seriously consider" cutting carbon emissions by 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. They also agreed to have a post-Kyoto climate change agreement set up by 2009. Thus, the US
doesn't actually have to cut any emissions before 2009 at the earliest (
click here to read the June 18th KA article on this topic).
This pattern applies to domestic policy as well.
Better World Club has long been reporting on California's fight against the EPA to enact its own Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. After much back-and-forth, the EPA was finally forced by the Supreme Court to consider
California's request.
Since then, Bush-appointed EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson has appeared before congressional committees on several occasions. Congress has repeatedly asked Johnson when the EPA would be done considering California's request, and
Johnson has repeatedly stated that the EPA needs more time.
The most recent excuse given was the need to review 60,000 public comments filed by the June 15 deadline. Of course, according to EPA staffers, 53,000 of the responses were identical comments supporting California - the result of a mass
mailing campaign.
Number of Environmental Cops Decreasing
by Rita Beamish
Forbes.com
Fewer U.S. environmental cops are tracking criminal polluters these days, their numbers steadily dropping below levels ordered by Congress.
Complete Story. |
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More Washington Watch in Kicking Asphalt and Driving Change:
- We Interrupt Consideration of the Energy Bill for a New Idea: A Sky Trust
- The EPA Is Encouraging Farmers To Pollute To Study The Effects Of Animal Feces On The Environment
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TravelCool Website of the Month |
FLIGHTSTATS.com
Level Orange will make you blue if you get stuck in a security line at the airport. Check security wait times at your airport before you go.
FLIGHTSTATS.com is a great source of news for all things that might hold you up at the airport. |
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