Ship Green Gives Retailers Easy Offset Options

The shipping industry has started to get on board with more sustainable practices, like UPS who trucks no longer turn left to save gas. Now a smart entrepreneur has launched Shipgreen.net, a web-based service that integrates with retailers’ online shopping carts, calculates emissions from shipping and allows consumers to offset the carbon produced.
The program is the result of the research by Dr. Arpad Horvath of UC Berkeley and Dr. Cristiano Facanha of ICF International. Together, the two developed the algorithm that determines the carbon footprint from the manufacture of a product to its delivery at a consumer’s door. …read more