CHWine is Green 365 days a year
At Cameron Hughes Wine, our most recent challenge wasn't a difficult vintage, it was the bitter taste left by the realization that as our business grows, so will our negative impact on the environment. After all, we rely heavily on shipping services to receive wines from around the globe and make customer deliveries across the country 365 days a year. If we really break out the "true" cost of the wine, shouldn't that be factored into the equation?
And so we began to wonder - is there something we can do as part of our business model to mitigate the toll we take on the planet?
Carbon Fund - The answer - a resounding YES! Using calculators developed by the Carbon Fund, a non-profit created in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University, we have tallied up the emissions generated by our business as a result of travel, freight and customer shipping activities and signed on to Carbonfree, a program that allows Cameron Hughes Wine to offset our emissions, making us the first American wine negociant company to be 100 percent carbon neutral. (Yes, that is a challenge to other wine companies.)
Signing on with Carbonfree has been one of the easiest business decisions we have ever made, and we hope to encourage anyone who is interested to check it out. After all, what could be more valuable than protecting the people and the places we love?
Finally, in our effort to really talk to the talk, we exclusively ship with pulp. While for many this can be more cumbersome, it is the way to keep down unrecyclable waste like foam core shippers. We are proud to say that we have shipped more than 10,000 cases of wine using pulp!
To learn more about The Carbon Fund, and how you can help erase your own carbon footprint, visit carbonfund.org.
And wishing all our fans, friends, family, and children a wonderful earth day. We only have one BIG Mother and its time we take good care of her!
Questions about our recycling programs and approach to sustainable farming please email us anytime at info@chwine.com, our online sommerlier.
