About PhotoEssence PhotographyEcological Initiatives
Our partners
1. Climate First Bancorp
(Climate First Bank + One Ethos)
Initiatives
Solar Power
Carbon Neutral
LEED-certified buildings
Affordable housing projects
1% For The Planet membership
“Climate First Bank is the worlds first FDIC-insured, values-based, digital community founded to combat the climate crisis.”
One Ethos and Climate First bank work together to bring solar energy to communities (including low income) by financing solar loans.
Being a carbon neutral business, they have made partnerships, such as with We Are Neutral, to reduce their carbon footprint.
They are part of the Global Alliance for Banking Values (GABV)
Their membership with 1% For The Planet directly donates money towards environmental causes.
Our banking deposits are used responsibly for good. Unlike other for-profit banks that use their bank deposits for less-than ecological investments, Climate First bank uses our deposits for renewable energies, affordable housing, and many other important for-community investments.
These images were borrowed from Climate First Bank 2023 Climate Report.
2. Stripe
(Stripe Climate and Frontier)
Initiatives
Direct Air capture
Mineralization
Field weathering
Biomass carbon removal & storage
Ocean alkalinity enhancement
Direct Ocean removal
2% of every purchase goes directly to Stripe Climate
(PayPal purchases excluded)
With Frontier’s extensive and diversified carbon offsetting portfolio, Stripe Climate and PhotoEssence Photography can make a positive environmental impact.
The image is directly from PhotoEssence’s Stripe Climate Dashboard.
- Direct air capture is the process of separating CO₂ out of ambient air via cycling a sorbent or solvent repeatedly through capture and release. The resulting CO₂ stream can then be paired with any type of permanent storage.
- Biomass carbon removal and storage processes permanently store CO₂ from waste biomass, which naturally capture CO₂ from the atmosphere via photosynthesis. Examples include pyrolysis, gasification, and biomass burial.
- Field weathering speeds up the natural weathering of alkaline materials with CO₂ and rainwater. The resulting reaction leads to durable storage of CO₂ as bicarbonate.
- Direct ocean removal approaches extract CO₂ from the ocean (rather than the air), which results in carbon-depleted discharge water that is then able to absorb more CO₂ from the atmosphere. The extracted CO₂ can then be paired with a different types of permanent storage.
- Ocean alkalinity enhancement describes processes that increase the natural ability of the ocean to draw CO₂ from the atmosphere. By extracting acid or adding alkalinity, additional CO₂ is stored as stable bicarbonate and carbonate in the seawater.
- Mineralization is the reaction of alkaline minerals, CO₂, and water to form solid carbonate minerals, which present a durable carbon storage.
3. theprintspace
(Creative Hub + Fujifilm)
Initiatives
Green delivery
Carbon neutral end to end
Sustainable packaging and materials
World Land Trust referral program
Wind energy powered
theprintspace uses carbon offsetting to make carbon neutral products for PhotoEssence Photography
How they offset
- Minimize carbon emissions using green couriers and shipping services.
- Calculate unavoidable emissions.
- Use Gold Standard and WWF guidance to carbon offset.
Sustainable packaging
They use sustainably sourced, recycled, or biodegradable packing.
theprintshop + Fujifilm on C-type prints (used by PhotoEssence Photography)
“Our c-type prints are printed on Fuji crystal archive paper and processed with Fuji chemistry. Fuji’s production processes operates on exclusively on wind energy and they also generate their own energy with five wind turbines and a large afterburner. They have also pioneered a water purification plant with adjoining companies. Fujifilm adheres to regulation using the S class system that places restrictions on those substances that can and potentially do pose threats to the environment and public health. In recent years there has been an emphasis into the considerations of animal welfare by actively working to engineer different test methods whilst collaborating on research into skin sensitivity. We are aware that the c-type process uses a precious metal, silver as it’s fundamental component to achieve high quality photographic prints. Silver is the raw material used to make the light sensitive emulsion that is suspended on the paper to generate our photographic prints. The silver residue and by-products of the photographic process are valuable raw materials so we extract them and recycle them after the prints have been made.”
Images and text were borrowed from theprintspace.
