NativeEnergy Makes 578 Campus Screenings Carbon Neutral Events
Sole provider of carbon offsets for ‘an inconvenient truth’
offsets emissions from more than 578 screenings of award-winning film
as part of international ‘Week of Action’, Jan. 29th - Feb. 3rd
Screening the award-winning film will use energy, which is generated mostly by burning fossil fuels. By helping to build truly new renewable energy projects that will displace fossil-based energy NativeEnergy is effectively making the screenings carbon neutral events.
“This is the largest mobilization in the history of the youth global warming movement, and students are demanding immediate action to fight the climate crisis, so we are showing our support by making sure these important actions don’t contribute to the problem,” says NativeEnergy President & CEO Tom Boucher. The company hopes that all participants will follow its lead and offset travel emissions to and from all campus events – making the events, not just the screenings, carbon neutral.
NativeEnergy also announced new DORM OFFSETS for students committed to easily and cost-effectively offset the estimated emissions from dorm room energy use, estimated at 3 tons (6,000 pounds) of carbon dioxide (CO2), for only $3 per month ($36 annually). Students can purchase online at www.NativeEnergy.com. Rather than support projects that are already up-and-running, students can join NativeEnergy’s customers and help build new renewable energy projects, which also help communities in need develop sustainable homeland economies in accordance with core cultural values.
The company permanently retires its Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) and direct CO2 offsets through its non-profit partner, Clean Air – Cool Planet, which ensures that the environmental rights are taken off the market and not resold in the future.
Events, including rallies and educational forums, are planned on college and high school campuses in 49 states and 8 Canadian provinces. In partnership with The 11th Hour Project and Truth on Campus, copies of the DVD and public screening licenses were made available to college and high school campuses. For a complete list of events during the week of action, please visit http://www.climatechallenge.org/woa.
About NativeEnergy
American Indian majority-owned, NativeEnergy is a leading national marketer of renewable energy credits (RECs) and carbon offsets, offering individuals and organizations a means to compensate for their global warming pollution, or to effectively power their homes and businesses with renewable energy. NativeEnergy’s patent-pending business process brings upfront payment to renewable projects for their estimated future REC output, enabling its customers to help directly finance the construction of specific new wind farms and other renewable energy projects, such as tribal wind projects and methane digesters and wind turbines on America’s family dairy farms. These projects reduce our reliance on fossil fuels to meet the nation’s electricity needs. NativeEnergy is the choice of leading environmentally and socially responsible organizations, including the film AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (www.ClimateCrisis.net), Ben & Jerry’s, Clif Bar, Stonyfield Farm, Interface, Aveda, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Co-op America, NRDC, the Clinton Global Initiative, Bonnaroo Festival, and thousands of individuals. NativeEnergy also offers Green-e certified RECs from operating wind farms and Climate Neutral Network certified offsets from operating CO2 mitigation projects. Online at: www.nativeenergy.com.
About Clean Air - Cool Planet
Clean Air - Cool Planet is the leading non-profit working in the Northeast to find and promote solutions to global warming. From offices in New Canaan, CT, Boston, MA, and Portsmouth, NH, CA-CP works with corporations, campuses, communities, and science centers to implement solutions to climate change and build constituencies for effective climate policies and actions. The third in its highly regarded Climate Solutions conferences, will be held in Manchester, NH, October 12th and 13th, 2007. For more information: www.cleanair-coolplanet.org.