April 16, 2013
We’re pleased to announce a recent collaboration with ASI Campus Laundry Solutions based out of Dayton, Ohio. ASI, a division of Coinmach Service Corporation, provides laundry equipment and services to colleges and universities nationwide and has led their field in sustainability for more than 15 years. ASI pioneered the use of high efficiency washers and dryers in student laundry rooms, which has saved millions of gallons of water each year.
Carbon Les, another ASI initiative, supports local carbon offset programs in communities where partner schools are located. Their objective is to bring carbon-neutral laundry operations to institutions whose presidents have signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. With each signature, the president announces a deadline-driven carbon-neutrality goal for his or her institution.
Together we will work to create carbon-neutral laundry operations by...
February 25, 2013
The Appalachian Carbon Partnership (ACP) recently paid seven landowners a total of $39,603 for the carbon stored in their sustainably managed forestland. The seven landowners own 3,254 acres of forestland throughout eastern Kentucky and Virginia. The money to retire the carbon offsets came from a combination of individuals, for-profit and nonprofit organizations and a large offset retirement sale to Stonyfield, an organic yogurt company based in New Hampshire.
“The sale of these managed forest carbon offsets represents an investment in the future of sustainable forest management by private individuals, companies and organizations who want to balance their carbon impact by purchasing offsets,”said MACED forestry program manager Scott Shouse. “Offsetting through the ACP is an easy and cost-effective way for individuals, businesses and organizations to account for their unavoidable emissions while investing in local...
As you think about New Year's resolutions, consider making 2013 a carbon conscious year. Offsets help counterbalance greenhouse gas emissions, and when you retire offsets through the Appalachian Carbon Partnership (ACP), you are backing the long-term sustainable management of Appalachian forestland. Each contribution supports family forest owners in Central Appalachia who are committed to sustainable forest management. Your contribution also benefits the region at multiple levels, including a better wildlife habitat, preserved bio-diversity, enhanced water quality, long-term forest health, climate change mitigation, and investment in rural communities.
It’s easy to get started. We have a simple calculator that helps you estimate basic emissions, or you can enter your own custom amount. When your contribution is received, we will issue a certificate of offset retirement that you can print or email. Click...
By Elizabeth Graves
Published in STORY - September 2012
www.storythemagazine.com
On a beautiful fall day in October 2009, a group of Kentuckians gathered beneath towering hardwood trees outside Berea, Ky., to celebrate a milestone. Together, these people represented a set of innovators, committed to improving private forestland for healthier trees and wildlife habitat, and better water and timber supply. Most notably, in a new and very modern twist, these forward-thinking individuals were also committed to leveraging the forests’ ability to store carbon dioxide. Officials from the Kentucky Division of Forestry, professors from the University of Kentucky Forestry Department, staff from the nonprofit Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED), and private forest landowners, among others, were gathered to celebrate the first revenue generated from Appalachian Forest Offsets. The landowners receiving...
August 24, 2012
Welcome to the newest yoga festival on the East Coast! The Floyd Yoga Jam is the grassroots, locally homegrown, organic and carbon conscious event that debuts Labor Day Weekend 2012. The event will be held outdoors on 400 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Floyd County, Virginia. Come out and experience a one of a kind event, a retreat in the meadows, which will feed your Heart, your Soul, and your Planet. More than 20 yoga instructors will share their unique styles of yoga, a wide variety of musicians will provide the musical backdrop for the event, and a fantastic array of food vendors will keep your tummy delighted with local ingredients, beers and wines.
This soulful celebration of music, yoga, community and play is the creation of the dynamic, local production company, the Dancin’ Dakinis. In Sanskrit, a dakini is “she who moves through the sky,” and they are thought to be the embodiment of enlightened...
