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Mountain Rose Herbs, a small Organic herb, spice and tea company in Oregon, recently launched a new carpooling and bicycling program that might be the best I’ve read about in my time writing green stories.

From their site:

Mountain Rose Herbs offers one of the nations finest carpool and cycling programs which pays substantial cash incentives to all employees who either carpool or bicycle to work.
Currently we pay staff members who carpool to work 12 cents per mile for each passenger, and for those who bicycle to work, we currently pay 20 cents per mile.
In addition to this we offer a $500.00 bonus at the end of each year to the individual who has logged the most passenger miles. As we are all aware, excess automobile usage is an environmental burden with consequences of great magnitude. Driving cars requires unsustainable and non-renewable resources; while simultaneously contributing to the growing problem of Co2 emissions and global climate change and we feel this carpool and bicycling program works in a small part to alleviate these problems.

Hey bikers!  Can you imagine getting paid 20 cents a mile to ride your bike to work?  If you log 5000 miles (not out of the norm for a lot of commuters) you’d clear $1K on top of all the other benefits of bicycle commuting.

Now there is a company that puts it’s money where it’s mouth is.

Check out their site for a whole list of amazing sustainable actions they’ve taken.  It’s really quite astounding what they’ve been doing.