With every online order and subsequent package shipment, greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) are released into the atmosphere during transport from the online shop's warehouse to your home.
At Feelgrounds, we believe it's important to care not only for our feet, but also for our environment. As part of our ongoing efforts, we recently joined Shopify Planet, which enables us to ship all our orders carbon-neutral.
What does CO2-neutral shipping mean?
CO2-neutral shipping means that the CO2 emissions produced during package delivery are offset by measures that save or sequester an equivalent amount of CO2. This can happen, for example, through investments in climate protection projects such as reforestation or innovative carbon capture and storage technologies. In this way, the CO2 emissions from shipping are compensated and thus neutralized.
What is Shopify Planet?
Shopify Planet purchases carbon removal credits and retires them on our behalf to ensure that the same amount of carbon dioxide caused by our deliveries is removed from the atmosphere. Emissions are calculated based on shipping distance, package weight, and transportation method.
What are the benefits of CO2-neutral shipping with Shopify Planet?
Given the high CO2 burden on the atmosphere, a combination of multiple different solutions is likely the most promising approach. That's why the Shopify Sustainability Fund supports various approaches so that the best technical and nature-based solutions can emerge.
Which solutions are funded by Shopify Planet?
Natural solutions for carbon removal include binding carbon in natural resources such as soil or oceans. Running Tide, for example, deploys carbon buoys seeded with kelp that capture carbon through a natural process and sink it to the ocean floor.
Another solution from DroneSeed involves using drones to accelerate reforestation of regions affected by wildfires.
Technology-based solutions often use machines to pull carbon from the atmosphere like a sponge. Carbon Engineering is currently building the world's largest direct air capture facility, which can remove up to one million tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere. The pure CO2 in gaseous form can then either be permanently stored in deep rock formations or repurposed in other ways.
One company that meaningfully reuses captured carbon is Twelve. The company specializes in technological solutions to use captured CO2 instead of fossil fuels to manufacture products that are already needed, such as detergents, eyeglass lenses, auto parts, or aircraft fuel.
We're excited to offer more environmentally friendly shipping while supporting innovative solutions and projects for climate protection. We're also continuing to work on reducing our environmental impact. Thank you for supporting our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint!
You can learn more about the work of the Shopify Sustainability Fund through these two links, for example:
https://www.shopify.com/blog/carbon-removal
https://www.shopify.com/ca/climate/sustainability-fund
Your Feelgrounds Team