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Drive, Fly & Party 'Green' With DrivingGreen.Com
Drive, Fly & Party 'Green' With DrivingGreen.Com
Published 11-29-06
Submitted by AgCert International plc DBA: DrivingGreen
MELBOURNE, FL - November 28, 2006 - American drivers, flyers and hosts can now play an active part in the fight against global warming with the launch of DrivingGreen.com (www.DrivingGreen.com), a simple service that allows them to effectively and inexpensively offset the greenhouse gas emissions from their vehicles, flights and events.
With an easy-to-use calculator, DrivingGreen.com enables consumers to determine the total pounds of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - the most prevalent greenhouse gas - that their particular vehicle, flight or event emits and its equivalent cost. Consumers then pay that dollar amount to DrivingGreen.com which provides it to selected farmers to help fund equipment, called 'digesters,' that convert animal waste into renewable energy that is used to power the farm without any fossil fuel, while preventing the greenhouse gases naturally emitted from the waste from entering the atmosphere.
- With DrivingGreen.com the entire amount can be offset for $40.00!
- With DrivingGreen.com the entire amount can be offset for $16.00!
- With DrivingGreen.com the entire amount can be offset for $260.00!
DrivingGreen.com is currently working with the following 3 farms to help them repay the farmer the price of the digester and to make the project sustainable:
1. Colorado Pork LLC, Colorado
2. New Horizons Dairy, Illinois
3. Holsum Dairy, Wisconsin
"We recognize that people will always need to drive, fly and have functions and that it is increasingly challenging to be environmentally responsible," explains DrivingGreen.com Director, Dan Linsky. "By providing a simple and inexpensive way for people to offset the damage they can't help doing to the environment, everyone can do their part to reduce the magnitude of global warming."
Consumers who offset their emissions receive a serial number that can be used to track their own reduced emissions and the successes of the agricultural projects to which their individual carbon footprint are reduced, as well as a T-shirt, license plate holders and a car decal to display their commitment to the environment!
Fast Facts:
In addition to answering consumers' call for tools that reduce global warming, DrivingGreen.com also provides a simple way for corporations to be greener by calculating and offsetting the greenhouse gas emissions of their entire fleet of vehicles. Companies like TEVA footwear and organizations like the University of California Santa Barbara have already made their vehicular fleets Greenhouse Gas Neutral with DrivingGreen.com!
About DrivingGreen.com
DrivingGreen.com is a consumer division of AgCert International plc (AGC - London Stock Exchange), an international leader in greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, that helps consumers personally contribute toward reducing global warming by translating their own greenhouse gas emissions into carbon emission reductions that, in turn, reduce pollution elsewhere in the world. Parent company, AgCert is a global firm headquartered in Ireland with operations in Brazil, Mexico, Canada, and the US that specializes in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture. For more information, log onto http://www.drivinggreen.com/aboutsp.asp.
About AgCert
AgCert International plc was founded in 2002 to produce and sell reductions in greenhouse gas emissions (referred to as "offsets") from agricultural sources on an industrial scale. These offsets are intended to satisfy the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol and be capable of being traded on the European cap and trade system, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme ("EU-ETS").
AgCert has identified agriculture as one of the largest commercial opportunities for Offset production and expects to be a leading supplier of offsets from this sector. Agriculture is responsible for around 20 per cent of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions. Under the Kyoto Protocol, any reductions in greenhouse gas emissions derived from this sector qualify as CERs provided they are derived from projects that have been validated by a DOE and Registered by the UN Executive Board and are properly verified and certified according to the stringent requirements laid down by the UN.
The Group's strategy is to expand rapidly its offset production and resultant sales capacity by commencing the modification of Animal Waste Management Systems ('AWMS') on farms where it has already entered into arrangements with farmers and by rolling out its turnkey AWMS modification methods both geographically and across additional livestock species beyond its current focus on swine through the entry into contracts with additional farms.
More information about AgCert's greenhouse gas reduction projects can be found at www.agcert.com.
AgCert International plc DBA: DrivingGreen
AgCert International plc DBA: DrivingGreen
DrivingGreen.com is a consumer division of AgCert International plc (AGC London Stock Exchange), that helps consumers calculate and offset the greenhouse gas emissions related to their travel. This makes it easy for consumers to do their part in fighting global warming. For more information, please visit www.DrivingGreen.com.
