Outdoor Industry Association challenged to the outdoor industry to offset 10% of its carbon emissions from travel to and from the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market Tradeshow. With the support of Outdoor Retailer, Salt Lake Visitors and Convention Bureau, Native Energy, and industry companies including GoLite, OIA hopes to encourage 10% of Outdoor Retailer tradeshow exhibitors and attendees to offset the CO2 emissions from their travel.
The outdoor industry has made impressive strides toward reducing the environmental impacts of our business operations and events:
The Salt Palace Convention Center which hosts Outdoor Retailer is the largest LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified building in Utah and has the largest solar power lighting system in the state.
Outdoor Retailer developed Green Steps program to acknowledge and reward outdoor industry companies for their environmental efficiencies.
Outdoor Retailer tradeshow is powered by wind generated energy through the purchase of offsets.
Numerous individual outdoor industry businesses are implementing programs that improve environmental efficiencies and reduce their emissions.
Travel to, from, and during Outdoor Retailer produces carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. Carbon offsets allow you to ensure that in the future, clean alternative wind energy is produced in lieu of carbon intensive coal fired energy. You are offsetting the carbon that you have already emitted, reducing future carbon emissions, and helping to grow the availability of clean energy by supporting new wind energy projects. If you purchase your offsets through Native Energy, youre also supporting projects on Native American tribal lands that build strong regional economies.
