Eco-Insurance in the UK
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 11. 2.06
UK co-op insurance company CIS offers eco-friendly car insurance: They offset 20% of your emissions, give discounts on insurance for low-emitting cars, have developed an eco-friendly recycling repair shop network and developed a crazy new font made out of grass. For fun, you can use their CO2 tyre footprint calculator to see how low those tiny European cars that we will all be driving can go. ::Ecoinsurance via ::Springwise, who also note that in the US, ::Travelers insurance is offering a 10% discount to hybrid drivers, on the assumption that they are probably responsible middle-aged lightfooted types.
Sounds wonderful!
In the US there is also a movement for "pay as you drive" car insurance where you pay less if you drive your car less.
And I know that there is at least one insurance company that offers discounts to members of bicycle advocacy organizations (via MassBike
And there is the Better World bike and car insurance/road assistance company (kinda like AAA), which also offers all kinds of sustainably-minded benefits, including discounts for members of bike advocacy goups. And it looks like they are offering pay as you drive insurance on a pilot basis in a few areas of the country.
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In Ohio, Farmers Insurance is giving discounts for Hybrid owners.