Carbon Offset Your Wedding

Illustration from Native Energy
I knew we should have eloped! Here are some quick facts from eco-wedding rag Portovert:
- The average U.S. wedding has 165 guests; 54 will require lodging and/or air travel. (American Wedding Survey 2005)
- In the U.S., approximately 15,000 pounds of carbon equivalent are emitted per person every year. (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
- The U.S. is the world’s largest single emitter of carbon dioxide, accounting for about 23 percent of energy-related carbon emissions worldwide.
Portovert has partnered with Native Energy to launch the first U.S. wedding carbon calculator, so eco-savvy brides and grooms can calculate the emissions generated by the major matrimonial-related carbon sources: guest travel, lodging, and venue power and heat.
Starting at $12 per ton of carbon offsets, the happy couple can invest in renewable energy by choosing one of three options: helping build new wind power projects, new family-farm methane-energy projects, or a combo of both. And if it’s not financially feasible to offset your entire nuptials—because, hey, who wants to start a marriage mired in debt?—making a manageable percentage of the wedding carbon neutral is still an excellent way to toast your new beginning in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.
It almost makes me wish I had my wedding to plan all over again so I could do right by the planet this time around.
Well, almost.

Well, it seems like eco-friendly, renewable-energy-powered hosting just wasn’t written in the stars for us this time. The data-migration to






