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Travel agents can now offer their customers the opportunity to offset CO2 emissions created by their trip.
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Conferences soak up a lot of resources. Not just from the company putting on the conference but also environmentally — what with all that travel, accommodation, shuttling around, etc.
Sustainability seems to be on the rise and lately conferences have been under the microscope. The recent Adventure Travel World Summit in Seattle was one of the first conferences to be 100 percent carbon neutral (the point at which greenhouse gas emissions have been identified, measured, reduced and 100 percent of the remaining emissions have been offset).
This was done through subscribing to projects that involve renewable energy, energy efficienciency or reforestation.
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Companies are seeing the way forward in these changing times. Vail Resorts, the big ski and recreation company in Colorado is investing in wind power, buying enough credits to offset all the power needed for its resorts, retail stores and office buildings. They are doing it through buying the equivalent amount of their energy needs in wind power credits from a Boulder company called Renewable Choice Energy. Renewable Choice buys wind power from producers, then pours the same amount of power Vail uses into the national electric grid.
Great idea, as climate changes can only mean snow businesses will be
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