How Etsy Leapfrogged Amazon in the Race to Go Carbon Neutral [Video]

As you read this, some 1.6 million packages containing items people have purchased online are on their way to their buyers—and that number only includes Amazon shoppers. Ecommerce has become a $505 billion industry in the U.S. (one projected to hit $735 billion in the next four years) which means a lot of planes in the air, trucks on the road and tons of carbon particulates out of the exhaust pipe.