11.09.2006 - 08:00am ET

(CSRwire) (Silver Spring, Maryland and Austin, Texas) --Carbonfund.org and alonovo.com are pleased to announce a cooperative relationship to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the serious, global impact of climate change. The growing alonovo.com community is part of a larger movement of educated, aware consumers that are already using corporate behavior as a factor in product choice.

When community members shop using the alonovo.com portal, they are evaluating product price, quality and, more importantly, which corporations are treating their workforce well, reducing their environmental impact and shifting to use clean, renewable energy sources.

Now when purchasing through the alonovo.com portal, the community can offset carbon emissions by contributing to Carbonfund.org, the leading non-profit carbon offset provider. On their behalf, Carbonfund.org will support renewable energy, energy efficiency, and reforestation projects that offset their climate change impact. Furthermore, future releases of the alonovo.com portal will include closer integration with Carbonfund.org to provide offsets based on the shipping related to each transaction.

"I am very pleased to announce our relationship with Carbonfund.org and enthusiastic about our future technical direction. Our growing community is sensitive to the global impact of consumerism, and this relationship will provide the ability to minimize the carbon footprint of our purchases. It is vital that while we shift our purchases to companies that are evolving toward a triple bottom line --people, planet and profit, that we also consider our personal responsibility. By addressing both corporate and individual responsibility we truly create a cooperative, sustainable and growing free market economy" stated George Polisner, founder of alonovo.com.

"We are excited to work with a progressive company like alonovo," said Eric Carlson, Carbonfund.org's executive director. "alonovo's members are committed to making the most responsible choices possible, and Carbonfund.org is glad to give them the opportunity to take responsibility for their carbon footprint. By bringing more and more people on board, we can have a real and lasting impact on climate change."

About Carbonfund.org

Carbonfund.org ( www.carbonfund.org) reduces the threat of climate change by making it easy and affordable for any individual or business to reduce their carbon footprint and support climate-friendly projects. With its easy-to-use calculator, low offset cost per ton of CO2, and certified offset projects, Carbonfund.org is proving that anyone can reduce their impact on climate change easily and efficiently. Carbonfund.org is a nationally recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit business, and a member of the EPA's Green Power Partnership, the Chicago Climate Exchange, and Ceres.

About alonovo.com

alonovo.com provides a free, social values-driven online shopping experience for its rapidly growing community. By directly integrating trusted corporate behavior data coupled with a large, price-competitive array of products into a visually compelling and simple user experience, alonovo.com makes it easier and more attractive to redirect consumer spending in ways that reflect individual social and environmental values. The alonovo.com mission is to catalyze a constructive relationship between an informed marketforce demand (consumers) and the entire supply and distribution chain. This will facilitate a "race to the top" among businesses that are working to balance people, planet and profit by connecting operational behavior directly with the profit motive through competition for product sales.

For additional information please contact info@carbonfund.org or press@alonovo.com.

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