Terrapass

The TerraPass story

TerraPass is the brainchild of Dr. Karl Ulrich at the University of Pennsylvania. Along with 41 of his students, Karl launched TerraPass in October, 2004 as a way to help everyday people reduce the climate impact of their driving. Within its first year, TerraPass registered over 2,400 members, reduced 36 million pounds of CO2, and earned countless national press and blog articles.

TerraPass has grown steadily over the past few years. We have a small staff in an office near the Bay Bridge in downtown San Francisco. More importantly, we've helped individuals and businesses to reduce over 1 billion pounds of carbon dioxide.

We work directly with carbon reduction projects, providing revenue to dairy farms, landfill gas installations and other projects that yield carbon credits. As of March 2009, we have 2.5 million tons of CO2 under management for sale to wholesale and retail customers.