Whether you choose to offset the carbon footprint of your travel to Alaska or contribute to organizations striving to protect Alaska's lands, waters, and ways of life, we hope your time exploring Alaska inspires you to give back.
The most basic component of traveling is getting from place to place - planes, trains, boats, and cars all allow us to explore destinations around the world. Covering great distances is not without an environmental cost, however. Transportation, jet travel in particular, is tourism’s main source of greenhouse gas emissions. Purchasing carbon offsets, or supporting carbon reduction activities, is a way to compensate for these emissions.
To effect carbon reduction as locally as possible, we suggest a donation to the Fairbanks Carbon Reduction Fund. The fund partners with another Fairbanks organization, Interior Weatherization, to provide home weatherization for low-income homeowners in Fairbanks, our closest city. Weatherization makes home heating more efficient, more affordable and reduces particulate emissions in the Fairbanks community, Interior Alaska's biggest city.
For three years (2023-2025) Camp Denali matched guest donations to the Fairbanks Carbon Reduction Fund. During this time period, guest and company donations totalled $13,130, facilitating meaningful energy efficiency improvements to dozens of homes in the Fairbanks area.
What opportunities to offset your carbon footprint exist in your home communities and neighborhoods?
This year we are pivoting away from our three-year partnership with the Fairbanks Carbon Reduction Fund. Alaska's lands and waters are the object of our national government's focus on energy independence and minerals mining. The integrity of our public lands is at stake, as are the interests of the people who depend on the wilderness, wildlife and waters of these lands.
Many organizations in Alaska are dedicated to safeguarding Alaska's lands, waters and ways of life. Co-founded by one of Camp Denali's founders, Celia Hunter, for 45 years the Alaska Conservation Foundation (ACF) has been the only public foundation dedicated to protecting public lands and waters and helping communities build resilience to the impacts of climate change in Alaska.
ACF operates on a vital principle: trust the people closest to the land. As an intermediary funder, the Foundation quickly shifts essential resources and power directly to Alaska's grassroots organizations and Tribes, enabling impactful, on-the-ground effort. Right now, threats are accelerating, but so is the potential for action. We hope you will consider a donation to safeguard Alaska for generations to come.
