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G-Race
Pro Cycling sponsorship
Welcome to our July
newsletter, and we have some great news to share. So please read on.
We
are excited to be a sponsor of the G-Race Pro Cycling team, the
first ever New Zealand professional track cycling team to be registered
with the International Cycling Union. This team is currently made
up of 9 riders with extreme talent and three support
staff. Among an impressive list of achievements, 18 year old Sam
Webster recently recorded the third fastest time ever by a New Zealand
rider in the 200 metre time trial. This time would have placed him 12th
at the Olympics, which is remarkable given his age. Having achieved
these results as amateur athletes, the mind boggles at the thought of
what could be achieved if these riders are given the same opportunities
as professional riders. They are looking for additional support. If you
are interested, please contact Justin
Grace or Josh Rea. Read more about the team here.
What are you up to? Would you like to share some of your sustainable or
environmental stories? Feel free to contact me or anyone from the Green
Carbon team.
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Urgent
update
It
is our pleasure to introduce and add Urgent
Couriers (www.urgent.co.nz) to our growing list of business support
partners. Most of you would have seen their fleet around town promoting
their 'carbon neutral' status*. Which means GHG (Scope 3) emissions for
users of their services can be assumed to be zero.
Whilst clearly that is a differentiating factor (not to mention their
advanced online tracking system), it is their overall commitment to
sustainability which resonated with us. Urgent Couriers defines
sustainability as 'a commitment to contribute to sustainable economic
development, working with employees, their families, the local
community and society at large to improve their quality of life'.
Download their sustainability flyer here.
Apart from the obvious advantage of using their services due to their
'carbon neutral' status, as our valued customers we have secured a
favorable Green Carbon customer rate to provide an additional financial
incentive. To find out more, please contact us and we will put you in
touch with them.
* New Zealand's only carbon neutral
courier supplier
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Carpool
Day 2009, Wednesday August 5th
Green Carbon is
proud to support and promote Carpool
Day 2009 happening in Auckland on Wednesday August 5, 2009.
We believe that these types of grass root initiative are key
if we are to make an impact and permanently change the status quo.
Purely from a climate change perspective, even if this only removes
1,000 cars off the daily workers commute, that would be over 880 tonnes
of CO2 emissions
less per year *. For context, roughly 154,000 vehicles cross the
Auckland harbour bridge every day.
If you live in
Auckland and want to make a difference, make your pledge now.
It's super simple, so have a go and have fun.
To find out more about this, click here.
* Calculation based on:
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Average driving distance of 11,000 km per year with 1/3 related to
work. (source, MoT: Household Travel Survey v1.2 Revised May 2007)
- Emissions factors for
default vehicle (source, MfE: Guidance for voluntary, corporate
greenhouse gas reporting, Data and Methods for the 2007 Calender Year)
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Industry
News
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A Parlmerston North Company ZEV
(Zero Emissions Vehicles Limited) is pushing forward with
commercialising a heavy electric vehicle. Read more here.
- Air New Zealand's to add winglets to its fleet which is estimated to
save millions in fuel cost and reduce carbon emissions by 16,000
tonnes. More on Stuff.
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The Government is likely to push the entry of the stationary energy
sector into the emissions trading scheme out to 2011 and industrial
processes to the following year (source, Carbon News) - Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, plans to demand that all its
suppliers measure the environmental cost of making their products so
Wal-Mart can calculate and post an eco-rating for each item. Read more
on NZ Herald here.
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 Updating... Ċ Adrian Koit, Jul 16, 2009, 5:54 PM
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