A little bit late for me to be posting this, but REI are one of the leading providers of outdoor activity clothes and equippment in the USA and it’s very encouraging to see their press release below.
“REI Adventures Announces Carbon-Neutral Travel in Partnership with Bonneville Environmental Foundation. Entire Greenhouse Gas Impact of Trips to be [...]
Daily Archives: December 5, 2007
Carbon neutral recreation
Hermitage Bay, Antigua
Hermitage Bay located in Antigua provides luxury accommodation for guests. Andy Thesen, one of the owners of Hermitage Bay, provides an overview of some of the environmental initiatives they have introduced to reduce their impact on the environmental. Environmental initiatives include:
Using sustainably grown timber, mostly from Guyana, during the construction phase;
Sourcing locally grown organic fruit [...]
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Carbon neutral vacations - Whiteface Lodge
Lake Placid news reports Whiteface Lodge now offers guests a ‘carbon neutral’ vacation. The article reports that Whiteface Lodge is joining the Leading Hotels of the World’s Green Initiative to provide guests with the opportunity to make their stay carbon neutral.
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Carbon Hero
Trying to figure out your carbon footprint when you have been on a journey? Well Carbon Hero is a new service which helps you to work out your carbon foot print. The software which can run on most mobile phones calculates your carbon footprint. The service has been developed by Andreas Zachariah and Nick Burch. [...]
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