Eco-friendly ideas for your wedding
We’ve created this section in WED to help you find products and services for a Green Wedding. -friendly wedding.
Is your Wedding leaving a big carbon footprint?
How to calculate your wedding footprint and use Carbon Offsetting donations to make-up for it!
With so many guest traveling to your wedding by plane and by car, staying in hotels and of course enjoying your wedding meals, your wedding
can leave quite a large carbon footprint. For those
environmentally conscious nearlyweds, there is a great option— Carbon offsetting.
What is carbon-offsetting? Calculating the carbon footprint of your wedding and making a donation to environmental projects to help make- up for the impact of your wedding.
car·bon foot·print
def.: The amount of carbon dioxide emitted due to the the consumption of fossil fuels by a particular person, group, etc
There are a number of tools available to help you with the calculation and donation. Here are a couple we recommend:
Brighter Planet offers ready-made greener wedding packages that estimate your wedding’s carbon footprint with a suggested donation to their project fund.
(example: small wedding of 75 guests = $112). Green
Bride Guide also offers a wedding calculator for a more specific estimate. You can review the Brighter Planet project fund to see if it’s a good fit.
TerraPass is a highly recommended environmental company that also offers carbon offset donations and calculators. Use their event and conference calculator to estimate the impact of your wedding. Review a listing of their projects to see if it’s a good fit for your environmental values.
In each issue, we’ll feature articles to help you have an eco
WED The Magazine
April/May 2011
Green My Wedding
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