Etsy just became the first global e-commerce company to offset all of its shipping emissions
27/02/2019
Ninety-eight percent of the company’s footprint comes from sending packages.
Etsy’s headquarters in Brooklyn has solar panels on the roof, and in 2018 the company partnered with Apple and two other companies to help build new wind and solar farms so that its operations could be fully powered by renewable...
Ninety-eight percent of the company’s footprint comes from sending packages.
Etsy’s headquarters in Brooklyn has panels on the roof, and in 2018 the company partnered with Apple and two other companies to help build new wind and farms so that its operations could be fully powered by renewable energy. It migrated its data storage to Google’s cloud, which also runs on renewable power. Its office is zero waste. The company has a program to help its sellers get panels at a discount. But the biggest part of the company’s carbon footprint–98%–comes from shipping packages.Read Full Story