As you may know if you’ve been following PlanetShoes.com or our blog here, we offer a great service called Carbon Free Plus Shipping. Basically, this means all of our customers can opt to pay a little bit of extra money to help offset the Carbon Emissions that result from shipping their shoes.

We take all of those small donations and amass them into a larger fund that is then donated to CarbonFund.org. We looked closely at all the projects currently being funded by CarbonFund.org and we chose these three as the focus of our donations:

• New Bedford Landfill Methane Project – New Bedford, Mass.
• Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center – Taylor and Nolan County, Texas
• California Solar Projects – Aliso Viejo, Stockton, Ontario, and Anderson, Calif.

As more and more of our customers have learned about this option, they have been opting in with every order, so while our first donations to CarbonFund.org weren’t as robust as we’d like, we’re thrilled to let people know that our donations are growing exponentially each month.

In February alone, we were able to amass just under $600.00 to donate to CarbonFund.org, which is enough to offset approximately 132,000 lbs of CO2 emissions. To put this into perspective, this will offset the average emissions of six SUV’s over a year.

If you’re interested in learning more about Carbon Offsets and about what you can do to calculate your own carbon footprint, to the CarbonFund.org website and learn more about their programs.