Sustainability

The Hilleberg Responsibility Code:

  1. We are responsible for making the highest quality tents that do what they’re supposed to do, with no compromise.
  2. We are equally responsible for using materials and practices that make as little negative impact on the world around us as possible in the process.
  3. We are responsible for constantly reviewing the balance between 1 and 2, and for always working towards both greater function and less negative impact.

Our Sustainability Work

Trees and tents: Vi-Skogen

Before Bo Hilleberg started making tents, he was a forester, involved with managing forest lands in Sweden. When he started Hilleberg, it was a forestry consulting and equipment company before it became a full-time tent making concern. So forests have always been integral to our company. This is why we feel so strongly about our partnership with Vi-Skogen, which we support by donating the equivalent of one planted tree for every tent we sell. For more than 35 years, Vi-Skogen has been contributing to improving the living conditions of over a million impoverished people living in the Lake Victoria Basin in East Africa. By planting trees and encouraging agroforestry – the planting of trees and crops together – as well as through education, Vi-Skogen helps small farmers combat poverty, environmental destruction and climate change. Each tree planted helps control erosion, pulls CO2 from the air, reduces evaporation and water use, and gives shade, shelter and protection for other crops. Both the education and the tree planting help improve living standards, foster greater equality, and improve the environment, both locally and globally. Vi Agroforestry is a part of the UN’s Billion Tree Campaign. Read more about Vi-Skogen at viskogen.se, or in English at viagroforestry.org

 

Reducing our carbon impact:
Ge Effektivt/Clean Air Task Force

It is important to us that we also consider the impact we as a company have worldwide, and that we do what we can to mitigate that impact. With the help of ZeroMission, we are able to calculate the carbon emissions output of our company, and we then use this figure as an approximation for how much we will donate through our partner Ge Effektivt, a Swedish non-profit organization. We choose to donate through Ge Effektivt – whose name translates to “Give Effectively” – because they do thorough research to find the best organizations to donate to, closely monitor all donations and projects, and most importantly, ensure that 100% of the donation reaches the intended cause, unlike many other organizations. Through Ge Effektivt’s recommendation, we have chosen to support the Clean Air Task Force (CATF), which since 1996 has been researching clean energy solutions and ways to implement them to reduce carbon and other harmful emissions. CATF advocates for commercial-level policy changes and incentives to increase the use of emissions-reducing energy technology. To learn more, visit ZeroMission at zeromission.se, Ge Effektivt at geeffektivt.se, and Clean Air Task Force at catf.us