Two organizations—Sustainable Travel International (STI) and GSN Planet—just released their own versions of calculators with very similar missions. In the case of STI, its embeddable carbon footprint calculator is for calculating and offsetting travel emissions. It allows any company to power carbon offsetting directly from their own website. Once embedded, visitors can use the calculator to calculate their travel emissions and purchase carbon offsets from Sustainable Travel International. In addition to flights, users can offset other high emissions travel activities including cruises, vehicles, liveaboards, yachting, and private jet charters.
Offsets purchased through the calculator will be channeled through Sustainable Travel International to support impactful climate projects such as forest protection, clean cookstoves, or wind farms around the world. These projects balance out emissions while fighting climate change by sequestering carbon from the atmosphere or preventing future emissions from happening. Sustainable Travel International carefully vets every project they support, ensuring they comply not only with the most rigorous standards for carbon offsetting but deliver considerable community or environmental benefits beyond carbon reduction.
In the case of GSN Planet, the global association with a mission to contribute to a vital and sustainable spa and wellness community, its Greenspa Calculator is a sustainability measurement tool in mobile app form for spas. The GSN Greenspa Calculator brings sustainability performance within full view and provides the tools and guidance to make it an attainable goal for any spa. One can calculate different criteria, including consumables, water, and energy reduction measures, to spa fittings and waste management, procurement and more. One can calculate one’s own sustainability score and see how it changes with each intervention as one goes along. One can compare one’s performance by category with other like-minded spas also seeking sustainable outcomes.
