While we make every effort to care for the environment in the products we use and the practices of our company (read more here), our cleanings teams still have to drive to each cleaning assignment, and we still have to send out some printed material to reach new clients (although we use Barefoot Press who does it in as eco-friendly a way as possible). Because we care about the environment, GreenClean LLC. will purchase carbon offsets for the miles our teams drive and our marketing outputs.
We will be using CarbonFund.org and we encourage everyone that is able to look into offsetting their carbon footprints as well!
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Everything we do requires engery. Energy mainly comes from compounds that have carbon in them. Reducing your carbon footprint means essentially to live your life while requiring less carbon-based engery. Therefore, using solar power reduces your dependence on electric power plants that burn fossil fuels (creating carbon dioxide and carbon soot).Buying local produce will reduce the amount of vehicle traffic that burn diesel or gas for power (that carbon dioxide again). You can eat less too, but there are limits.Using recycled paper reduces the amount of trees/live organic material cut down (organic material is full of carbon) to allow us to write.Recycled steel removes the need to mine and purify iron ore, saving electricity and fuel to process.Just remember, your footprint cannot be zero (you breathe out carbon dioxide too), and on top of that, you should (your choice) live a productive life, so at some point, it’s not about the size of your footprint, but the value generated per unit of carbon processed.hope that helps.