• Sustainability

Sustainability Pledges Take Flight in Airline Sector

• aviation
• biofuels
• carbon footprint
• carbon offsets
• Delta
• jetBlue

Delta Airlines (the world’s largest airline) and jetBlue have recently made big commitments to lower their carbon footprint, with Delta last week pledging to become “carbon neutral,” by 2030 and plan to invest $1 billion in achieving the goal, while JetBlue announced in January that it will be the first U.S. airline to pledge to offset all domestic flights beginning in July and United Airlines had previously committed $40 million to sustainable aviation development. 

Why This Matters:  If governments won’t force emissions to come down through regulation, then the fact that businesses are willing to make these pledges is even more significant.

• Sustainability

Green Holiday Gift Guide 2019

• carbon offsets
• gift guide
• green products
• National Parks
• plant-based diet
• single use plastic
• sustainability

Hey #FriendsOfThePlanet, if you’ve been reading the email all week then you will have seen our picks for meaningful green gifts for you and your loved ones. We’ve compiled all of our recs into this handy guide and hope that if you’re looking for gifts, that you love all of these items and experiences as […]

• Sustainability

Holiday Gift Guide: Give the Gift of Carbon Offsets

• carbon footprint
• carbon offsets
• holidays

This year, that climate guilt in the form of “flight shaming” set in.  Many people started thinking hard about their own carbon footprints after climate activist Greta Thunberg made headlines by sailing to the large UN climate meetings in a solar-powered boat rather than flying to them and by taking trains to events around Europe.  […]

• Sustainability

One British Royals Thing: Prince Harry’s Sustainable Travel Initiative

• carbon offsets
• Prince Harry
• sustainable tourism

After catching much grief for flying on private jets to various events in the past month, Britain’s Prince Harry announced on Tuesday a long term initiative in partnership with some of the major players in the travel and tourism industry — Booking.com; TripAdvisor; Visa; China’s largest travel company, Ctrip; and the Ctrip-owned fare aggregator Skyscanner.  […]

• People

Talking Renewable Energy with Cloverly Co-Founder Dave Folk

• carbon offsets
• ecommerce
• green energy
• renewable energy

Dave Folk is the co-founder of a company called Cloverly which calculates the carbon impact of common internet activities — like e-commerce shipments, rideshare, and on-demand deliveries — and then purchases carbon offsets to make those activities carbon neutral. Cloverly shows the buyer, in real time, the source of the offset and through its algorithm […]