How we're working to reduce ecommerce's climate impact
Carbon offsetting is a way to compensate for the carbon dioxide we spew into the atmosphere by funding projects that reduce greenhouse gases or absorb carbon from the air. At cgk.ink, this means investing in renewable energy sources, reforestation efforts, and energy-efficient technologies that help balance out the environmental impact of shipping and packaging.
Stripe Climate is the easiest way to help promising permanent carbon removal technologies launch and scale. cgk.ink has joined a growing group of ambitious businesses that are changing the course of carbon removal.
Carbon Balance Pte. Ltd. is a sustainability platform based in Singapore providing a calculator API to measure the GHG footprint of ecommerce transactions and an Integration Plugin for popular ecommerce enablers such as WooCommerce, EasyStore, Shopify with flexible options to offset footprint by contributing to trustworthy projects.
These pieces of software complement our other intiatives, such as:
Combining shipping when available to further reduce our carbon footprint
Allowing you to control the speed of delivery so excessive emmissions are avoided
Using recyclable packaging to reduce the overall impact of shipping.
Examples of current carbon-offsetting efforts:
Google Travel, as well as other travel and hotel search sites, have formulated a way to compare carbon emission variations among similar routes. The impetus is on both the airline and the consumer to choose among the available options with ecological criteria being included.
cgk.ink offers various personalization options for most of our products. You can customize items like:
Our designs are digital, so we can (mostly) take any design and place it on any other item. So, if you like the design of, say, a shirt, we can replicate it on a wine glass, duvet cover or anything, really. Tell us what you have in mind!
apparel
Personalized tees are a great example of how customization can be accessible to everyone. Dates, names, events and, well… anything can be designed to make each item your own.
Create a truly unique celebration by providing your guests with bespoke items at your next event. Glassware, napkins, ice buckets, aprons and tableware are a few of the items we’ve customized for customers.
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TWA Happy Hour Bar Set | Economy Class
$93.00Original price was: $93.00.$73.47Current price is: $73.47.
A personalized journal makes the personal content visible. Each journal has it’s own tone, purpose and utility. Express yourself with a personalized journal or card.
To inquire about collaborations, cross-selling, affiliate marketing, or placing a custom order, you can use the contact form below. You can upload files for customization through this form as well. Submitted files are used to estimate fees (if any) and gauge the scope of detail. Files are destroyed 21 business days after production in case of a reorder or problem with delivery.
It’s presumptuous to say that I know how to run a giga-trillion, global company who outpaced Kuwait’s GDP this year. I do not know how to do that. I also do not know how to launch things into outer space, deliver anything by a drone or how to even hotwire a van. I do know, however, not to bite the hand that feeds me and expect to keep eating.
Amazon is a collective of millions of sellers. We’d like to think of it as one, ginormous factory, but it’s not. Over 60% of its sales are sourced from individuals. They actually fabricate very little. They store and fulfill and market, but they don’t really make stuff.
OPEN and CLOSED
I’m a huge fan of open source anything. But not when it makes one company god-like in their economic power. Which is why I found this recent article in the Financial Timesso disturbing. I don’t know what to hate more: Amazon’s arrogance or opportunistic lawyers.
According to the Financial Times, sellers on Amazon’s marketplace account for more than 60% of sales. It received $96bn in commissions and fees paid by sellers in nine months.
During the first half of 2023 in its EU store, Amazon took 274mn “actions” in response to potential policy violations and other suspected problems, which included the removal of content and 4.2mn account suspensions. Amazon revealed the numbers as part of its first European transparency report newly required by EU law.
I don’t think that selling knock-off Chanel bags is a good business model even if profits are insanely high. It’s illegal and you will be caught (perhaps) and forced to pay back that profit (kinda). A lawsuit is defined as “compelling action otherwise incomplete.”
It’s a no-brainer from a corporation’s point of view: we give you the playing field, but we’ll keep changing the rules.
The acceptance of the words “gig economy” make me recoil. It really is just usery. The proposition works like this:
You’re temporary and will be replaced
You have no benefits
You are not an employee
You will depend on us/our platform/our payment descisions.
It is a weird argument to say that Amazon Sellers are “autonomous” or even “independent” since their entire business depends upon Amazon’s platform. Perhaps it’s the goal of independent wealth or the now-past “it’s-too-good-to-be-true” internet goldrush. There are heavy consequences. On average, sellers on Amazon realize less than 40% of potential profit, less when taking into account ancillary services such as advertising and “placements.” This means nothing when the platform simply disappears.
Amazon has a reputation for being an asshole arbiter. It simply suspends accounts that are in “violation.” The problem with this is that “violations” are never explained or defined. Ed. note: to be clear, I’ve never been an Amazon seller.
Everyone I know is very secretive about their addiction to TEMU. None will go on record.
DISCLOSURE: Hi, I’m Chris, and I’m a TEMU addict.
My very smart friend in Manhattan has coined the term: “I’m MU’d.” This woman has a PhD and teaches. High-level literary shit. At Ivy League Colleges.
I feel you friend, I’m constantly sitting on the precipice of diving into MU. We text each other and have a therapy session which always ends up as “so, whatya got in the cart?” It has become a very, very weird 12-step program.
We drew the line at sharing carts cause… we’re friends and honestly, we have both bought the same things so it gets freaky weird, like “OMG! I LUV THE GARDEN WATERING THINGY! IT’S $0.69!” We’re secretly into it. A weird ecommerce thing, concurrently. From LAX to NYC.
TEMU is a wonderland of ecommerce. You literally can order this:
I adore that this is truly an unfettered, uncensored gauge of what people are buying. All curse words are allowed but stop short at porn/hate speech. In essence, how I live my life.
Following is my current jaw-slacking faves (which will change because I spend an inordinate amount of time on this fucking site).
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