Green-e Marketplace Certifies Over 200 Products Manufactured with Certified Renewable Energy
Consumers can now choose from over 200 products for their home or business that are manufactured with 100% certified renewable energy
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jeff@resource-solutions.orgSAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 17, 2009)—Center for Resource Solutions announced today that Green-e® Marketplace companies offer over 200 products that are manufactured with 100% certified renewable energy. Green-e Marketplace certified products reach across many diverse industry groups including medical devices, food and beverage, health and beauty supplies, machinery, paper and packaging, and more. Consumers can find these products by looking for the Green-e logo on product packaging, signifying the product has been manufactured with 100 percent certified renewable energy, and through the Green-e website at www.green-e.org.
The food and beverage industry has been a leader in offering products manufactured with certified renewable energy. Top brands include Batdorf & Bronson coffee, BuyWell International coffee, Carolina Plantation Rice, Choice Organic Teas, Garden of Life energy bars, Lundberg Family Farms rice and rice chips, PepsiCo's SunChips brand potato snacks, Santa Cruz Organic juices, and Terra Nostra chocolates.
"Santa Cruz Organics is pleased to share our renewable energy commitment to our consumers through the Green-e logo," said Julia Sabin, spokeswoman for Santa Cruz Organic. "We are especially aware of the importance our consumers place on our commitment to our company's sustainability goals and efforts."
This year, President Obama's transition team found and selected a Green-e Marketplace Certified paper product to print the invitations to inaugural events when the administration selected Neenah Paper's Classic Crest Rose. Papers manufactured using 100% Green-e Energy Certified renewable energy can also be found from Monadnock, Sappi, New Leaf, Gray's Harbor, Nicholas Earth, and The Paper Mill Store.
"The Green-e logo is a fantastic mechanism for us to clearly communicate our mission of reducing our carbon footprint quickly and effectively empowering our consumers to make product choices," said Ben Ford, operations manager at KFM Foods International. "Using the Green-e logo makes sense for both Canadian and American customers."
New certified products are expected to arrive later this year as Santa Cruz Organics and Posty Cards expand their Green-e Marketplace Certified product offerings. Santa Cruz Organics plans to place the Green-e logo on all Santa Cruz Organic line of products. New Green-e Marketplace member Posty Cards, manufacturer of greeting cards and calendars, will add the Green-e logo to selected new designs, with over 100 products carrying the logo by 2010.
Companies use the Green-e logo to help their customers identify them as renewable energy advocates and industry leaders. Total purchases by Green-e Marketplace participants exceeded 2.8 million MWh in 2008. Each Green-e Marketplace participant is part of a growing list of companies and organizations taking real action to reduce their share of greenhouse gas emissions. Electricity generated from renewable sources results in less environmental waste and pollution, and displaces other non-renewable sources from the electric grid. The purchase of electricity generated from nearly emissions-free renewable sources avoids carbon dioxide emissions and serves to build the market for renewable energy nationwide, increasing the incentives for building new facilities. Currently, renewable energy accounts for only about two percent of total electricity generation nationwide.
Green-e Marketplace Certified products are offered by these companies: Americraft, AromaFloria, AVEDA, Batdorf & Bronson, Beaulieu, Becton Dickson Infusion Therapy Systems, BuyWell, Carolina Plantation Rice, Cascades, Choice Organic Teas, Garden of Life, Graphic Concepts, Green Zebra, J.S. McCarthy Printers, K-1 Packaging, Lundberg Family Farm, Marian Heath Greeting Cards, Monadnock, Neenah Paper, New Leaf Paper, Nicholas Earth Printing, Strathmore Artist, PepsiCo, Print Communications Group, Santa Cruz Organic, Sappi, Solberg Manufacturing, Sustainable Sourcing, Terra Nostra, The Paper Mill Store, Tom Arma Costumes, and TrueTextiles.
Of the 33 companies displaying the Green-e logo on products, 8 were recognized by The Better World Shopping Guide. Green-e Marketplace participant AVEDA made the Top Ten Best Companies list, out of over 1,000 companies included in the guide.About Green-e Marketplace and Center for Resource Solutions
Green-e Marketplace provides forward-thinking organizations with a simple, nationally recognized tool they can use to communicate their commitment to renewable energy to their customers and shareholders. The Green-e logo is the nation's leading symbol of renewable energy excellence and distinguishes Green-e Marketplace participants as environmental leaders. Green-e is the nation's leading independent consumer protection program for the sale of renewable energy and greenhouse gas reductions in the retail market. Green-e is a program of Center for Resource Solutions (CRS), a San Francisco–based nonprofit with a global impact. CRS brings forth expert responses to pertinent climate change issues with the speed and effectiveness necessary to provide real-time solutions to ongoing environmental problems. CRS's leadership through collaboration and environmental innovation builds policies and consumer protection mechanisms that foster healthy and sustained growth in national and international markets for environmental solutions to climate change including renewable energy and energy efficiency. To learn more, visit Center for Resource Solutions and Green-e Marketplace.
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