<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><b style=""><font color="#e69138">LMHQ + Bard MBA in Sustainability</font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><font color="#999999">present</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><font color="#3d85c6" size="4"><b>Behind the Creative Curtain:</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><font size="4" color="#e69138"><b style="">How Etsy is Leading E-Commerce on Climate Change</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:center"><font color="#999999" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">featuring</font><br><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#e69138">Chelsea Mozen</font></strong><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(83,86,90);font-size:16px">, Director of Sustainability, Etsy</span><br><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;box-sizing:border-box"><font color="#e69138">Lindsay Vellines</font></strong><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(83,86,90);font-size:16px">, Integrated Marketing Manager, Etsy</span><br><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><font color="#6aa84f"> </font></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><font color="#999999"><b>Thursday, January 30th | 6:30pm | LMHQ</b></font><b><font size="4"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/behind-the-creative-curtain-how-etsy-is-leading-e-commerce-on-climate-change-tickets-87177928531"><font color="#0b5394">TICKETS HERE</font></a></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><p style="text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(111,114,135);font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,system-ui,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;letter-spacing:0.5px"><span style="padding-top:0px">In 2019, Etsy became the first major online shopping destination to offset 100% of carbon emissions from shipping. Now, every time an item is purchased on Etsy, the company balances out the carbon emissions by creating positive environmental impact. When Etsy moved to reduce their carbon footprint, they discovered that 98% of their emissions come from shipping— a process which they do not control. Despite this challenge, Etsy developed a low-cost strategy to offset the emissions from every item shipped through it’s platform - a true revolution in the e-commerce industry.</span></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;color:rgb(111,114,135);font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,system-ui,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.9333px;letter-spacing:0.5px">Join LMHQ and Bard MBA in Sustainability to hear from the Etsy team on how they arrived at this climate solution and then executed on this endeavor.</p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(111,114,135);letter-spacing:0.4pt"><b>DOORS OPEN:</b> 6:30PM<b> </b></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(111,114,135);letter-spacing:0.4pt"><b>REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED</b></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></p><div class="gmail_default"></div><p></p><div class="gmail_default"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/behind-the-creative-curtain-how-etsy-is-leading-e-commerce-on-climate-change-ticket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