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If You Care About The Climate Do Not Read This Article | EarthChamps — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:34:28 +0000

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By: jane doe

jane doe — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:56:33 +0000

so,just how exactly can we be environmentally friendly while shopping on line?am really stumped here!
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jane doe
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By: Jessica Gregory

Jessica Gregory — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:39:46 +0000

From the About Us page at GoCarbonFree:
“GoCarbonFree is the UK’s latest and most up to date source of information on carbon offsetting.
“Use our site to offset carbon and blah blah.”
Blah blah? Yeah, that sounds like an up to date source of information…

By: Kristina

Kristina — Mon, 21 May 2007 09:12:03 +0000

I’d say buying on-line is more eco-friendly. A delivery truck takes hundreds of packages and systematically drops them off on the most cost effective delivery route. Imagine if the hundreds of recipients independently drove to the shop to pick up there purchases.
When it comes to supporting your local economy, nothing competes with biking to your local Mom & Paps shop, and stimulating the local economy. But if you are buying from a big corporation, on-line is better.
I just came across a new shopping portal that offsets purchases with free carbon credits. They give away Phase II carbon credits (the good kind), paid for by advertising dollars from corporations. http://shop.gocarbonfree.com/ Kind of like the opposite to air miles. Looks like businesses are getting the right idea.
Anyway, it is one way of making on-line more eco-friendly

By: Jessica Gregory

Jessica Gregory — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:18:56 +0000

Totally agree with you in the case of electronic media delivery, but…
What if I need to buy something tangible, like a shirt? There’s no way to avoid the physical production of the shirt. And then what if I combine my trip to the shirt store with several other errands all within walking distance of where I am going to park my car — so only one car trip, and say half a dozen different items purchased — versus ordering these half dozen things on-line which, due to the vagaries of on-line ordering and assorted shipping services, are more than likely to arrive in six separate deliveries…
And then, if I am buying everything on-line, the shops in my little local town won’t have as much business, and if a significant number of people in the area start doing the same thing, then these little shops might go out of business, which would then force people to drive longer distances for things they don’t want to buy/can’t get on-line…
I’m not really sure which side I’m on, just thought I’d throw some more variables into the mix…