Purchase BEF Tour Green Offsets at Participating Touring Locations in Alaska
BEF's Tour Green program is specifically designed for offsetting the carbon dioxide emissions from tourism activities and their related travel in Alaska. BEF Tour Green Offsets supports the funds necessary for increasing the use of non-polluting renewable sources of power.
Air and water pollution, primarily from burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas, is causing unseasonably warmer temperatures, reduction in snow-pack levels and ultimately has devastating repercussions on the Alaskan environment and wildlife.
You can make a difference in Alaska's energy mix with each purchase of a BEF Tour Green Offset available through participating businesses. Each BEF Tour Green Carbon Offset represents 100 kilowatt-hours of wind power entering the energy grid and creates a savings of 150 pounds of polluting air emissions from entering the atmosphere.
In addition to supporting the BEF Tour Green program, you can also offset the emissions from your home, your business and your transportation through the purchase of BEF Carbon Offsets. BEF Carbon Offsets replace energy from traditional, polluting sources with clean, renewable and sustainable sources of power. Each BEF Carbon Offset represents enough renewable energy to offset the greenhouse gas pollution produced by a typical home for a month. In the Tour Green program, a partial BEF Carbon Offset is used to represent a portion of your travel to your touring destination.
We encourage you to support BEF's Tour Green program where it's available in Alaska. You can calculate your travel to and from your touring destination using our BEF Carbon Calculator. You can also offset the emissions from your home, your business and transportation through the purchase of BEF Carbon Offsets.
About Bonneville Environmental Foundation
Why should you spend your hard earned money with us? BEF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization. And that means all of our "profits" get reinvested back into renewable energy and watershed projects. In a real sense, you and your community are stakeholders in our organization.
When you participate in our Tour Green program, your purchase supports the development of a variety of sustainable energy and watershed restoration projects. On a broad scale, here's how your green helps the Earth stay green:
- Adding renewable energy to our power grids
- Funding solar power systems for schools and public buildings
- Building wind power systems for farms, ranches and communities
- Helping restore watersheds to improve water quality and native fish habitats
BEF Tour Green Offsets
BEF Tour Green Offsets fund the development of clean, renewable, wind energy sources. When you purchase a BEF Tour Green Offset, you're canceling out (offsetting) a set amount of greenhouse gases your activities release into the environment.
But there's more to it. A BEF Tour Green Offset, like all carbon offsets, represents an opportunity and a responsibility. Instead of dirty fossil fuels, you are choosing to support and invest in clean renewable energy. When we produce clean energy and feed it into the system, or "Energy Pool", the dirty, non-renewable sources are scaled back as wind and solar take over which means less carbon dioxide emitted into our air and atmosphere.