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How fintech platforms can fund renewable energy from transactions
A "1% of every purchase" pledge can cost more than a debit card earns. Where a platform's funding can come from, projects versus certificates, and what to report about the impact.
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How to assess hotel emissions data for corporate reporting
The UK government's 2026 hotel-stay factors are unchanged since 2022 and rest on 2019 hotel data. Four checks to run before a hotel figure goes in your inventory.
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How to launch a travel benefit for your members
Members have learned to distrust travel perks. How to launch a benefit they can check: the access route, disclosing how you are paid, and what to report.
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How companies can fund solar for schools and nonprofits
A restricted grant can cut a school's solar tax credit. How grants, loans, buy-downs and revolving funds compare for a company funding solar that someone else owns.
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Toronto to Delhi nonstop flights: times, airlines and bags
The three Toronto to Delhi nonstops on Air Canada and Air India: schedules, real flight times, bag rules, terminals and the trip home.
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How to spot greenwashing when you book travel
From September 27, 2026, EU rules ban unproven "eco-friendly" claims and offset-based "carbon neutral" ones. How to judge the green claims you see when you book.
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Solar project finance explained for business buyers
A solar project that started construction after July 4, 2026 has to be running by the end of 2027 to earn the federal credit. How businesses pay for solar, and who gets the credit.
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How to assess airline emissions data for corporate reporting
The UK government's flight factors come with and without a 1.7 multiplier on CO2, and Google's model leaves contrails out. The four choices behind every flight's number.
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How to add a travel benefit alongside your travel management company
You don't have to leave your travel management company to offer employees a travel benefit. The two ways to set one up, what to check first, and a 90-day plan.
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How membership organizations can explain community solar to members
Most members hear community solar and picture a smaller electric bill. How to explain a program that funds solar for someone else, in wording that follows the FTC's Green Guides.
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Corporate travel supplier questionnaire: climate data, targets and methodology
More than 30,000 hotels calculate a footprint per occupied room with the same free method. The questions to send your travel suppliers, and what a useful answer looks like.
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How to reward employees for saving on business travel
Loyalty programs reward travelers for sticking with one brand, whatever the price. How to set up a reward for booking the cheaper comparable option instead.
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How renewable energy projects help communities
Cheaper power for 25 years, a season of local construction work, and carbon kept off a coal-heavy grid. How one solar program reaches the people around it.
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How travel partners should handle disruption and service recovery
At 11pm a canceled traveler wants a bed, a new flight and someone who picks up. What the airline already owes them, and what the refund rule requires of you.
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How to compare a member rate with a public hotel rate
A worked comparison of a member rate and a public rate for the same room, and why the real saving is usually a bit smaller than the headline gap.
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How employers can assess community-solar impact claims
Whoever produced a provider's impact number had an interest in it being large. Six questions establish whether it holds, and none of them need a technical background.
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Corporate travel dashboards: the metrics worth tracking
Two companies can run identical trips and publish emissions figures a third apart without either being wrong. The differences are choices nobody puts on the dashboard.
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Employee travel benefits ROI: a measurement framework
Vendor ROI numbers come from other companies with other programs. Here is how to build your own, including the denominator most business cases never set.
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How we calculate Dyme's renewable energy impact
Four inputs and two multiplications produce every impact number we publish. Here is the working, the assumptions it rests on, and what we do not claim.
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How airline award availability works, and how to search it
The number your airline quotes you is real, but it answers a question you did not mean to ask. How award inventory works, and the order to search in.
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Private hotel rates: what you get and what you trade
The discount on a private hotel rate comes from the wholesale market, and so does the reason it rarely earns points. Here is the sum that settles it.
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Embedded climate finance: models, funding sources and disclosures
Green bond issuers have answered the awkward question for a decade: where was the money held before you spent it? The framework translates almost line for line.
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Business-Class Travel Policy: The Rule the US Government Uses to Decide
Most policies answer a question about seniority. The rule the US government writes for its own travelers asks whether the better seat is cheaper than paying someone to sleep for a day when they land.
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Membership Travel Benefits: What the FTC Total Price Rule Means
The product exists to say members pay less. Since May 2025 a federal rule says the number allowed to dominate the screen is the total price, not the saving.