Zerofootprint has developed a strategy to reduce the environmental impact of events and festivals. By measuring greenhouse gas emissions based on activities directly related to an event, and the resources used in an event, we can help to manage the events impact on climate change. We work with organizations in order to properly establish the scope of measurement, which might include

Every airline flight produces carbon dioxide (CO2), which contributes to climate change. Air Canada recognized that travel is an essential component of conducting business, and wanted to provide corporate customers the option of offsetting the negative effects of their travel.

“Air Canada is the country’s preferred airline for business travel, so it is uniquely positioned to help

Every airline flight produces carbon dioxide (CO2), which contributes to climate change. Air Canada recognized that travel is an essential component of conducting business, and wanted to provide corporate customers the option of offsetting the negative effects of their travel.

“Air Canada is the country’s preferred airline for business travel, so it is uniquely positioned to help

We all hear about the threat of Global Warming, the consequences climate change has for humans and the obvious effect on the economy. There is increasing competition for natural resources, particularly fertile land, water and food, not to mention the growing problems of where to put the waste that our modern lifestyle generates.

Reducing carbon emissions, a leading cause of global

Earth Overshoot Day: the day our demand surpasses nature's budget

On September 23rd this year we mark an unfortunate milestone: As of today, humanity will have consumed all the new resources the planet will produce this year, according to Global Footprint Network calculations. For the rest of 2008, we will be in the ecological equivalent of deficit spending, drawing down our resource

So, I’d been hearing about Carbon Offsetting for a while now, and it piqued my interest. If you’re not familiar with the idea, a carbon offset is a fee you can pay to offset the carbon emissions from some activity of your choice. The idea is that the fee you pay goes towards environmental projects and you pay enough to remove the amount of carbons you emit, thereby making your activity

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OTTAWA – Green party Leader Elizabeth May says her whistle-stop campaign tour is the green way to go and it seems she’s right.

May says her cross-country train journey will spew fewer greenhouse-gas emissions into the atmosphere than a plane trip. A carbon offset firm says her claim isn’t just hot air. Jay Goldman of Toronto-based Zerofootprint

With all the turmoil in the markets, it seems time to write again about people who are doing good works in the financial sector. I’ve scheduled an interview with the host of a conference for compassionate venture capitalists and their potential clients, which takes place in October. Next Saturday, a column about the conference. Today, ten good reasons to become a New Radical.

When I

The largest full-service airline in Canada has extended a popular carbon offset initiative to business clients. Air Canada’s program will be operated in conjunction with Zerofootprint, a carbon management firm that already has helped individual passengers on the carrier to voluntarily offset 9,417 tons of carbon.

Up to now, passenger offsets on Air Canada have financed a forestry

The largest full-service airline in Canada has extended a popular carbon offset initiative to business clients. Air Canada’s program will be operated in conjunction with Zerofootprint, a carbon management firm that already has helped individual passengers on the carrier to voluntarily offset 9,417 tons of carbon.

Up to now, passenger offsets on Air Canada have financed a forestry