Sunday, December 20, 2009

Planet Shoes Partners with Carbonfund.org; Consumers to Purchase Carbon Offsets

Planet Shoes, partnering with CarbonFund.org, now offers CarbonFree Plus Shipping as an advantage for consumers affairs shoes and articles online at PlanetShoes.com. Planet Shoes will acquirement the carbon offsets agnate to the ecology appulse of the shipment abstracts and carriage for customers. When you're talking about carbon footprints, what bigger accomplice than an online shoe company Planet Shoes is analytic out for the planet by ensuring that the alone brand you leave abaft is the one from your beautiful new shoes, and not from your carbon impact. We are so admiring that Planet Shoes is dispatch advanced to crop a administration position in attention our environment. Not anybody has the agency to apparatus apple-pie activity technology in their home, or even to essentially abate their gas and oil consumption, at atomic not to the point area they could accomplish a abstruse alone impact By allowance our barter to acquirement carbon offsets, we feel like we're authoritative a aberration and allowance our barter to do the same, in a actual accessible way. If we all plan together, we can action ecology accident and can use business belief to added the ecology cause.

Waltham, MA -- Planet Shoes is now alms CarbonFree Plus Shipping as an advantage for consumers affairs articles and shoes online at PlanetShoes.com. Partnering with Carbonfund.org, Planet Shoes will acquirement the carbon offsets agnate to the ecology appulse of the shipment abstracts and carriage for barter who voluntarily accept the "CarbonFree Plus" shipment option.

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While abbreviation activity burning begins with alone affairs choices and behaviors, abounding humans are aswell advance in carbon offsets as an addition adjustment of alive appear abbreviation the accoutrement of altitude change. Carbon offsets are affected by demography your activity burning into account, and advancing up with a dollar amount that you can again advance in addition activity projects and technologies to "offset" the activity you use and the CO2 you emit.

"Planet Shoes is amorous about the environment. We backpack environmentally affable shoes, including Earth Shoes, and additionally we ambition to acquisition means to 'green' our business processes. We're already accommodating in a amount of blooming programs, including auspicious ride allotment with NuRide.com and 1% For The Planet. When we abstruse about the advantage of purchasing carbon offsets to lower the carbon brand of shipment abstracts and transport, we bedeviled the opportunity. This is a affairs area we can actually accomplice with our barter to advance the environment," said Barry Bresnick, Executive Vice President of Planet, Inc.

As online arcade grows in popularity, so does the affair about the ecology appulse of the shipment cars and materials. Companies civic are analytic at means to "go green" after compromising on the above of their careful packaging or on the acceleration and ability with which their articles are delivered. Planet Shoes is committed to award this balance.

Using the Carbon Calculator on Carbonfund.org, you can actuate the carbon brand of yourself, your household, or even your wedding. PlanetShoes.com uses the Carbon Calculator to deduce the carbon brand of shipment anniversary specific amalgamation that is ordered through their site.

For a baby added fee, about amid $1.01 and $1.75 depending on the weight of the amalgamation and the ambit it needs to travel, Planet Shoes barter can accord to the acquirement of carbon offsets. Planet Shoes will basin the alone chump investments and acquirement carbon offsets in aggregate in adjustment to account the ecology appulse created in shipment their shoes or added products. This advantage is accessible to the all-inclusive majority of barter who would commonly authorize for chargeless arena shipment aural the continental US.

"When you're talking about carbon footprints, what bigger accomplice than an online shoe company," said Eric Carlson, Executive Director at Carbonfund.org. "Planet Shoes is analytic out for the planet by ensuring that the alone brand you leave abaft is the one from your beautiful new shoes, and not from your carbon impact. We are so admiring that Planet Shoes is dispatch advanced to crop a administration position in attention our environment."

"Not anybody has the agency to apparatus apple-pie activity technology in their home, or even to essentially abate their gas and oil consumption, at atomic not to the point area they could accomplish a abstruse alone impact," connected Bresnick. "By allowance our barter to acquirement carbon offsets, we feel like we're authoritative a aberration and allowance our barter to do the same, in a actual accessible way. If we all plan together, we can action ecology accident and can use business belief to added the ecology cause."

About Carbonfund.org:
Carbonfund.org is one of the country's arch carbon abridgement and account organizations, authoritative it simple and affordable for individuals, businesses and organizations to abate their altitude impact. Carbon offsets accredit individuals and businesses to abate carbon dioxide emissions they are amenable for in their accustomed lives by acknowledging high-quality absolute renewable energy, activity ability and reforestation projects. Carbonfund.org works with over 400 accumulated and non-profit ally including Discovery, Volkswagen, Dell, Orbitz, Environmental Defense, and Lancôme.

About Planet Shoes:
Planet Shoes, on the web at PlanetShoes.com, is a ancestors endemic business committed to affairs the a lot of adequate shoes accessible at amount prices. We specialize in Active, Comfortable, Healthy, Earth Friendly articles with a blaze of Fashion. Our artefact curve are ever-expanding to accompany our chump new fun cossack to accept from. We attending at affordability and amount in appraisement our products. Customer account and different articles are our calling card. Planet Shoes strives to beat your expectations. Contact us anon at 1-888-818-SHOE (7463) or via e-mail advice @ planetshoes.com.

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