Carbon Race Teams
We’re racing against the clock when it comes to preventing extreme climate disruption.
Don’t you agree it will be much more fun to race together? We created the Carbon Races as a fun, team-based way to take CO2 out of our atmosphere by pooling our efforts at taking responsibility for our personal and workrelated emissions. Of course, we want everyone to do their best to keep shrinking their fossil fuel consumption, but for those currently unavoidable emissions, you can join with others to make a difference! Working together, you’ll be able to take pride that your offsets helped fund home heating improvements for local, lower-income households.
Businesses, neighborhoods, churches, organizations - any group of people can form a team and combine their efforts to see who can offset the most every month. At the end of each month, we will celebrate the top teams for pounds of CO2 offset, number of offsets, or number of players on the team. Teams can also vie for top spots for the entire year!
Plus everyone who makes an offset can spin the prize wheel for a chance to win one of dozens of great prizes from local businesses. We think climate protection deserves a reward!

Or Run Solo
If you don't want to join or create a team for the Carbon Races, we invite you to compete solo against other individuals. Just make a carbon offset and then register as an Individual and every offset you make will accrue to your account on our Leaderboard and give you another opportunity to win a prize from one of our supporting local businesses
Carbon Races
- Teams
- Individual
Rank | Team | Total lbs CO2 offset | County |
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1 | Sustainable Tompkins | 1665511 lbs | Tompkins |
2 | Friends of Ellen | 1306761 lbs | Tompkins |
3 | Mothers Out Front - Corning Community Team | 369677 lbs | Steuben |
4 | Fernow and Friends | 359836 lbs | Tompkins |
5 | Halco Energy | 324000 lbs | Tompkins |
6 | Friends of Discover Cayuga Lake | 258858 lbs | Tompkins |
7 | CCETC Environment Team | 142699 lbs | Tompkins |
8 | Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton | 139515 lbs | Broome |
9 | Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative | 116195 lbs | Tompkins |
10 | GreenClub | 103200 lbs | Tompkins |
11 | Max's Bar Mitzvah | 83460 lbs | Tompkins |
12 | Paddle-N-More | 80000 lbs | Tompkins |
13 | Tikkun v'Or | 77305 lbs | Tompkins |
14 | Wells College Center for Sustainability | 77067 lbs | Cayuga |
15 | Team Gridley | 63957 lbs | Tompkins |
16 | Colgate University | 52413 lbs | Madison |
17 | Columbia | SIPA | 41040 lbs | Columbia |
18 | Ardmortals | 37059 lbs | Tompkins |
19 | Camp Pickleson | 25541 lbs | Tompkins |
20 | Lansing Ospreys | 18356 lbs | Tompkins |
21 | Brylinsky Family | 11746 lbs | Tompkins |
22 | Sustainability Center and Finger Lakes ReUse | 11142 lbs | Tompkins |
23 | Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival 2017 | 9626 lbs | Tompkins |
24 | Central New York | 9316 lbs | Onondaga |
25 | Lake George Climate Team | 9110 lbs | Saratoga |
26 | Regenepreneurs | 8429 lbs | Tompkins |
27 | NYPAN-SFL (NY Progressive Action Network - So. Finger Lakes) | 3448 lbs | Broome |
28 | Binghamton University Phi Alpha Delta | 2800 lbs | Broome |
29 | Rochester Community Team--Mothers Out Front | 2031 lbs | Monroe |
30 | Fall Creek Brass Band | 1567 lbs | Tompkins |
31 | TeamKI | 1240 lbs | Tompkins |
32 | Friends of Sally Gagnon | 1238 lbs | Tioga |
33 | Cornell Campus Sustainability Office | 862 lbs | Tompkins |
34 | NY NEST | 854 lbs | Broome |
35 | Lee and Cheong | 706 lbs | Tompkins |
36 | Binghamton Women's Soccer | 670 lbs | Broome |
37 | Get Your GreenBack! | 276 lbs | Tompkins |
Rank | Individual | Total lbs CO2 offset |
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1 | Park Foundation, Inc | 218257 lbs |
2 | Alicia Wittink | 131040 lbs |
3 | Beck Equipment | 80080 lbs |
4 | Natural Investments | 80000 lbs |
5 | Stuart Staniford | 68288 lbs |
6 | John Keevert | 57596 lbs |
7 | Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future | 51040 lbs |
8 | Susan Robinson | 42198 lbs |
9 | Snug Planet | 40000 lbs |
10 | WillieWillie Max | 37712 lbs |
11 | Dave Ritchie | 32541 lbs |
12 | Juliette Corazón | 28560 lbs |
13 | kathy russell | 25240 lbs |
14 | Firelight Camps | 20000 lbs |
15 | Dailey Electric, Inc. | 20000 lbs |
16 | Liz | 16216 lbs |
17 | Jennifer Wilkins | 13936 lbs |
18 | CCE-TC Environment Team | 12985 lbs |
19 | Maggie Mowrer | 12485 lbs |
20 | Jordan Yanowitz | 11004 lbs |
21 | Todd Cowen | 9613 lbs |
22 | Lisa (Stratton Charitable Fund) | 8000 lbs |
23 | Dan Broadway and Alice King | 8000 lbs |
24 | Luna Oiwa | 7015 lbs |
25 | Sierra Club Finger Lakes Group | 6400 lbs |
26 | Sarah Toner | 5310 lbs |
27 | Terry Carroll | 5270 lbs |
28 | Megan | 5058 lbs |
29 | Joe Burke | 4000 lbs |
30 | James Leonard | 3297 lbs |
31 | Cynthia | 3208 lbs |
32 | Nick Goldsmith | 3128 lbs |
33 | - | 1888 lbs |
34 | Cheyenne Carter | 1522 lbs |
35 | David Morris | 1357 lbs |
36 | Irene Komor | 740 lbs |
37 | Colton Poore | 603 lbs |
38 | Caroline Hyneman | 0 lbs |
39 | Wes Ernsberger | 0 lbs |
40 | Elizabeth Braymen | 0 lbs |
41 | Leslie Danks Burke | 0 lbs |
42 | Jebediah and Christina Mead | 0 lbs |
43 | Sox Sperry and Lisa Tsetse | 0 lbs |
44 | Simply Installs, LLC | 0 lbs |
45 | The Rainy Day Fund | 0 lbs |
46 | Todd Saddler | 0 lbs |
47 | Martha Robertson | 0 lbs |
48 | Elliot Frost | 0 lbs |
49 | gamaypatti@gmail.com | 0 lbs |
50 | Jared Jones | 0 lbs |
51 | Sungineer Solar | 0 lbs |
52 | Social Ventures, Inc. | 0 lbs |
53 | Leslie Danks-Burke | 0 lbs |
54 | Trautmann Family Fund | 0 lbs |
55 | William and Carol Klepack | 0 lbs |
56 | Charles Geisler | 0 lbs |
57 | Sasha Paris | 0 lbs |
58 | Chris Braymen | 0 lbs |
59 | Solar Tompkins | 0 lbs |
60 | Nancy Jacobson | 0 lbs |
61 | Karin Suskin | 0 lbs |
62 | Robert Wolcott | 0 lbs |
63 | Gerri Wiley | 0 lbs |
64 | Philip and Mary Lu McPheron | 0 lbs |
65 | Halco | 0 lbs |
66 | Thomas Butler | 0 lbs |
67 | Greg Nelson | 0 lbs |
68 | Joe Wilson | 0 lbs |
69 | Phillips Kleinberg Family Fund | 0 lbs |
70 | R Paul Moore | 0 lbs |
71 | Judy Jones | 0 lbs |
72 | Carol Bushberg Real Estate | 0 lbs |
73 | Lynn Leopold | 0 lbs |
74 | Wells College | 0 lbs |
75 | Colgate University | 0 lbs |
76 | Joseph B. Yavitt and Susan M. Merkel | 0 lbs |
77 | Robert L. Cooper and Lucy Keeler | 0 lbs |
78 | Regi Teasley | 0 lbs |
79 | Judy Epstein | 0 lbs |
80 | Peter McDonald | 0 lbs |
81 | Catriona Breen | 0 lbs |
82 | Megan Szerwo | 0 lbs |
83 | Vanessa Fajans-Turner | 0 lbs |
84 | Polly Marion | 0 lbs |
85 | Elizabeth Riley | 0 lbs |
86 | Suresh Sethi | 0 lbs |
87 | Lisa Kilgore | 0 lbs |
88 | alex | 0 lbs |