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Have a guilt free carbon neutral wedding
How do you calculate the cooking of the food for your reception, the miles driven by your guests, the electricity used for your bridemaids' hairdryers and the best man's trip across town to collect his suit? What about the disco with flashing lights, the champagne shipped from France, and so on? Now help is at hand through Offset Your Wedding which has been set up by Combat Climate Change to make offsetting a wedding as easy as possible. They've done all the hard work for you by taking into account the sometimes endless factors that go into your wedding day. They've taken a common sense, 'best guess' approach and factored in averages for all the major aspects - likely car travel, catering, heat, light and so on, and that gave them a figure of around about 65kg of C02 per guest. And to make it even easier they've calculated air travel (which produces a heap of C02) seperately, so if your honeymoon involves jet travel, or if there are guests flying in for the wedding, you can include the flight emissions in your overall calculation as well. Now, with some justification, many carbon offset schemes have been criticised as not being 'fit for purpose' and we've had the same concerns, so that's why we like Offset Your Wedding who have set up their own properly managed and open scheme, investing in projects here in the UK. We know we can trust them, and you can too. You can find out more about their approach to offsetting by visiting their main site, Combat Climate Change. Give it a go, in just a few easy steps you can have a guilt free eco friendly wedding. |
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