Buying Guilt Free - Knowing something is being done

Is 25 square feet a lot?

25 square feet of rainforest more than enough to equal the CO₂ from the raw materials, shipping those materials to a crafter's studio, the crafting process, and then shipping the handmade item to you.

Going even further...

100 square feet is equivalent to the carbon emissions of
the electrical consumption of the typical home in a week.

250 square feet is equivalent to the CO₂ emissions of
driving your car for an entire month.

Selling on ShopHandmade the Green Way

Everything you sell on ShopHandmade is automatically green. We protect 25 square feet of endangered rainforest with every item. That's enough to sequester the CO₂ emissions from the raw materials you used, your own crafting process, and of shipping the materials to you and to your customer. And its free to you…even of free/sponsored listings.

You can take a step further: you can increase the protection to 100 or even 250 square feet of rainforest. It's your choice. We make it easy and inexpensive.

When you choose to participate we'll draw further attention to your item by adding an environmental sponsorship tile to the product detail page.

The facts behind the facts
More CO₂ is emitted into the atmosphere by the clearing and burning of rainforests than by all cars, busses, and industry combined. (Source: Conservation International.) The best and fastest way to protect the environment of CO₂ is through endangered rainforest preservation. Environmental calculations are always complicated and sometimes controversial. We use the best available science in our calculations and analogies. Note that we typically refer to sequestered CO₂, which is CO₂ that plants naturally absorb and trap. We draw analogy between sequestering CO₂ that would be released by clearing and burning to the releasing of CO₂ through the burning of fuels such as by driving your car. In this way, protecting a rainforest which is endangered can somewhat be thought of as mitigating the burning of fossil fuels. Whether or not you are a proponent of the "Greenhouse" theory, we can probably agree that protecting rainforests is good for the environment.