Boston Globe

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Bank of America Corp., which already boasts over 5,000 affinity credit cards worldwide, teamed up with a Vermont start-up, Brighter Planet, to issue the Brighter Planet Visa last month.

Brighter Planet invests an unspecified percentage of cardholder spending in renewable-energy projects. For every $1,000 spent, a cardholder offsets one ton of carbon emissions, roughly the amount emitted in heating the average home for a month or driving the average car 2,000 miles.