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Offset your carbon emissions by donating to COREworks and accelerate earth care in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
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Accelerate earth care
COREworks is a community tool for increasing on-the-ground green action. Our initiative vets and funds local projects that restore soil, protect water, and reduce carbon emissions. We sustain and grow this vital work by operating an innovative, home-grown carbon offset marketplace. Manage your own carbon footprint while also generating bounty for Rockbridge County.
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Reduce Emissions
When it’s not possible to zero-out a fossil-fuel activity like travel, consider offsetting the rest. Our marketplace lists projects actively generating high-quality greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions. Quantified as metric tons carbon dioxide (MTCO2eq), these verified offsets are ready for personal or business allocation. Make a ton-for-ton donation to reduce your carbon footprint or support COREworks more generally. Either way it’s a win since all COREworks projects feature additional ecological and social benefits.
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When you donate to COREworks you’re doing more than righting a wrong: you are helping our community thrive. All our earth care projects include additional features that advance a more just, involved, and informed citizenry, bedrock of our collective well-being. Equally important, we built momentum into the model. As a matter of principle, COREworks directs 100% of your donation toward launching the next earth care project, thus perpetuating all these benefits. That’s win-win.
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Offset Your CO2
Reduce what you can then offset the rest. Make a personal offset donation equivalent in value to the MTCO2 emission reductions generated by one of our listed, verified projects.
Speed the Rollout
Give directly to the COREworks Fund. Capital from the Fund launches the next carbon-reducing project. The greater resources in the Fund, the faster the roll-out of local earth care projects.
Sustain the Sustainer
As a matter of climate urgency, COREworks reinvests 100% of marketplace donations to launch additional earth care projects. To assist with indirect costs, consider a gift to Boxerwood, the organization administering COREworks.
Interested in reducing your household carbon footprint before you offset? Register for pro-bono home decarbonization coaching from local expert, Morris Trimmer.
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Offset your carbon emissions by donating to COREworks and accelerate earth care in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
Acknowledgments
COREworks came to be thanks to the goodwill, talents, and generosity of many friends, including students, staff, and faculty at Washington and Lee University (and its School of Law); Boxerwood donors; and local citizens. We extend appreciation as well to the carbon registry professionals across the nation for their pro bono guidance as we developed our local model.
Special recognition also to the photographers who graciously permitted use of their work for this website, including Brittany Klinger, Lad Sessions, Laurel Sheffield, Shannon Spencer, and the Boxerwood team. Thank you also to Lexington and Rockbridge Area Tourism. All images on this website arise from life in Rockbridge County, Virginia, our treasured home.