Giving Compass' Take:

• Causeartist reports on the sneaker startup and B Corp, Allbirds, and its recent announcement on going 100 percent carbon neutral to combat the effects of climate change.

• As more companies take on a social impact approach, how can donors support them?

• Here's an article on Amazon's plans to shift towards a carbon neutral business model. 

Even though Allbirds is only contributing a tiny fraction to that number today, the company believes one tonne is still too many. With that said the company is going carbon neutral for their entire supply chain.

What does going carbon neutral mean?

For Allbirds, it means, starting this year, for every tonne of carbon the company emits as a business, from the sheep on their farms to the lightbulbs in their headquarters, they’ll pay to take a tonne of carbon out of the atmosphere. Allbirds looks at it as giving the planet an IOU, then immediately paying it back.

At first, they will accomplish this by purchasing credits from third-party verified emissions reduction projects, commonly known as “carbon offsets.” These projects do things like protect trees that capture and store carbon, build wind energy, and prevent harmful greenhouse gasses from entering our atmosphere.

Read the full article about going 100 percent carbon neutral by the team at Causeartist.