Silverjet is the first carbon neutral airline worldwide and they are the Institute of Transport Management’s ‘environmentally aware airline of the year’, 2007.
Their ticket price includes a mandatory carbon offset contribution which is invested by The CarbonNeutral Company, to ensure that every tonne of CO2 associated with passenger’s flights is matched by one tonne saved [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Silverjet
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Triodos Renewables Investment Fund
Triodos Renewables is an investment fund which invests in the United Kingdom’s renewable energy sector. We understand that the fund has approximately 3,500 investors.
Green Tomato Cars
,Part of the wider ‘travel industry’ Green Tomato Cars provide an environmentally friendly mini cab service in London. They are using Toyota Priuses and they hope to increase the size of their fleet too 100 cars by 2008. Alongside using Toyota Priuses they also offset double the amount of their carbon emissions!
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Visit Scotland - Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Tourism
VisitScotland sets out information on why tourist businesses in Scotland should become ‘carbon neutral’. VisitScotland believes that by becoming carbon neutral it will give Scotland a competitive edge over other tourist destinations.
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The Great Green Rip Off
The Observer has written an insightful article, ‘The Great Green Rip Off’ which poses the question - what happens when we pay a company to off set our carbon emissions?
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REI Adventures and Carbon Neutral Travel
REI Adventures has announced that it now offsets 100% of the climate altering carbon emissions generated by air, water and land travel associated with each of our trips. To find out more click here.
REI state “In partnership with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, REI Adventures will purchase renewable energy credits to offset the carbon emissions [...]
Patagonia
Patagonia a leading provider of outdoor clothing and equipment for the outdoor adventure sector have recently launched their own blog - The Cleanest Line.
Interestingly, on the environmental activism section of their website they note “Our definition of quality includes a mandate for building products and working with processes that cause the least harm to the [...]
Visit Scotland Carbon Neutral Tourism
VisitScotland’s Chairman Peter Lederer has called for Scotland’s tourism businesses to become the carbon neutral – potentially creating the world’s first carbon neutral destination.
VisitScotland’s Green Tourism Business Scheme which promotes the benefits of tourism businesses adopting a green approach to business has some 420 members.
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The Carbon Neutral Tourism blog brings together information on tourism, leisure and recreation with a particular leaning towards ‘carbon neutral’ and environmental related issues.
We hope to identify examples which demonstrate examples which reduce and offset carbon emissions that are linked to these dynamic sectors.
Visitors often cite the environment as one of the main reasons [...]
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