It is not often that you combine summer camp with saving the planet, but that is what is happening Colorado these days. Reducing pollution is the name of the game at the moment, and any group that reduces their carbon footprint by reducing pollution, and offsetting for anything they can’t reduce, is to be applauded. Colorado Summer Day camps group Avid4 Adventure are doing just that by calculating the volume of carbon their camps emit into the atmosphere, and then finding ways of reducing it and offsetting what cannot be eliminated or reduced.
Avid4 provide summer camps for kids aged 5 and up and introduce them to activities such as kayaking, canoeing, rock climbing, white water rafting, mountain biking (the right way) and horseback riding among others. Great for kids raised in towns and cities that don’t get much chance to take part in these activities.
To date the program has resulted in:
A reduction in coal consumption of 17 tons, or the weight of 42.5 mini vans
A reduction in emissions of 33 tons, or the weight of 238 male African elephants
To help achieve this they:
Purchase carbon offsets from payments made by...
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