How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint on Your Next Flight
Carbon offsetting isn’t a perfect solution, but it is an easy way to give back.
One of the most pressing issues we’ll face in our lifetime, the whole topic of climate change is extremely doom-and-gloom. That sense of dread and overwhelming helplessness is fully warranted no matter how vigilant you are about recycling and turning off the lights when you leave a room, it begs the question: What can one person do?
If you like to travel, and often do so by plane, prepare yourself for more grim news: Air travel is one of the biggest perpetrators of climate change. According to the EPA, aircrafts contribute 12% of US transportation emissions, approximately 3% of the country’s total greenhouse gas production. Every time you hop on a plane, you contribute to that rising statistic.
As world publishing looks for ways to lessen its environmental impact, HP’s new white paper lays out advantages of a global print partner network model over the traditional supply chain. (Sponsored)
Image: From the HP white paper, ‘Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: Why and How Publishers Should Aim for a Greener Supply Chain’
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‘A Greener Supply Chain’
Working to measure and reduce its own environmental impact, HP in May 2013 became the first company in the information technology industry to publish a full carbon footprint. It also was one of the first to issue a complete water footprint. Both footprints cover the value chain from HP’s suppliers to its own operations and out to its millions of international customers.