[harrisonjackson]

What’s the carbon footprint of $100 bend subscription?

It would be neat if carbon footprint could be translated to some more humanized unit. Like trees or global warming degrees or idk.

Also, it seems like some products at companies would be more carbon friendly. Would be nice if you could categorize the spending within a bank line item. Naive example… I bought a $10 reusable cup from my local coffee shop so that every time I shop there I am not using a styrofoam cup so let me tweak how that impacts my carbon footprint. That way I can still get coffee and feel good about doing so in a conscientious way. I’m sure there are similar big company examples, too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[thomasmost]

We are offsetting all our emissions via the Bend Offsets Plan, so the carbon footprint of your $100 Bend subscription is credibly net-zero :)

And yes, line-item and other "level 3" data is very exciting to us techies—unfortunately it's also really difficult to access! One of the reasons we like the Bend model is that it simplifies/abstracts away from that by looking at your total contribution to a company's bottom-line as the source of truth for emissions, which prevents a kind of "line item greenwashing."

But yes, in the future it would be nifty to sync in level 3 data from receipts or something to factor that into our calculations!

[elil17]

Anyone can translate carbon footprint into trees or whatever. The important part is having a metric so you can make sure it's going down, not up.

[tedpower]

+1!