Milliken Donates Carbon Offsets to Greenbuild

Madison, WI, Nov. 6, 2009--Leonardo Academy said that the emissions resulting from the U.S. Green Building Council annual Greenbuild International Conference & Exposition have been offset through donations of carbon offsets and renewable energy certificates from Milliken & Company and WindCurrent, respectively.

This marks the 8th year that Leonardo Academy’s Cleaner and Greener Program has donated its services to the USGBC.

Based on projected Greenbuild attendance and energy use, the donations to this year’s conference in Phoenix, Ariz., have offset 100 percent of the greenhouse gas, sulfur dioxide, and mercury emissions, as well a portion of the nitrogen oxides emissions associated with the event.

Due to this emission reduction achievement, Greenbuild 2009 earned Gold-level certification through the Cleaner and Greener Program.

WindCurrent donated 3,100 MWh of renewable energy certificates to completely offset the electricity use from the event, and Milliken donated 12,500 metric tons of carbon offsets to offset the remainder of the greenhouse gas emissions.

WindCurrent’s donation of RECs included Green-e certified wind-generated renewable energy from wind farms in the eastern U.S.

The carbon offsets donated by Milliken were created through carbon sequestered in the company’s existing forests, which were assessed according to the Leonardo Academy Draft Standard.

Michael Arny, president of Leonardo Academy, said, “Milliken and WindCurrent have, through their donations, brought to light the importance of two very different, but equally important emissions topics: the sequestration of carbon in existing forests and the continued support of renewable energy. It is wonderful that both of these companies have stepped up to make Greenbuild a carbon-neutral event again this year.”

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