Sunday, December 20, 2009

EPA Recognizes ICB, LLC - Samson Carts/CrateXpress Among Nation's Leading Green Power Purchasers

ICB,LLC Samson Carts/CrateXpress today appear its acquirement of blooming ability and its affiliation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership. Samson Carts/CrateXpress is affairs renewable activity certificates (RECs) from Sterling Planet, a arch civic supplier of blooming ability products. Green ability purchases abutment the development of new renewable activity bearing sources nationwide. This is a huge account and we are appreciative to be accustomed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Purchasing blooming ability helps our alignment become added sustainable, while aswell sending a bulletin to others above the U.S. that acknowledging apple-pie sources of electricity is a complete business accommodation and an important best in abbreviation altitude risk.

Chicago, IL -- ICB, LLC - Samson Carts/CrateXpress today appear its acquirement of blooming ability and its affiliation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership. ICB, LLC - Samson Carts/CrateXpress is purchasing added than 220,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of blooming ability annually, which is abundant to accommodated 50 percent of the organization's purchased electricity use. ICB, LLC - Samson Carts/CrateXpress is affairs renewable activity certificates (RECs) from Sterling Planet, a arch civic supplier of blooming ability products.

"This is a huge account and we are appreciative to be accustomed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency," said David L. King, President. "Purchasing blooming ability helps our alignment become added sustainable, while aswell sending a bulletin to others above the U.S. that acknowledging apple-pie sources of electricity is a complete business accommodation and an important best in abbreviation altitude risk."

Green ability is electricity that is generated from environmentally bigger renewable resources, such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact hydro. These assets accomplish electricity with a net aught access in carbon dioxide emissions, while alms a above ecology contour compared to acceptable ability bearing sources. Green ability purchases aswell abutment the development of new renewable activity bearing sources nationwide.

According to the U.S. EPA, ICB, LLC - Samson Carts/CrateXpress' blooming ability acquirement of added than 220,000 (kWh) is agnate to alienated the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of added than 31 commuter cars per year, or is the agnate aggregate of electricity bare to ability about 23 boilerplate American homes annually.

The Samson Cart has undergone Indoor Air Quality emissions testing by an absolute class and is currently listed on the Greenguard website as a low-emitting product. ICB, LLC - Samson Carts/CrateXpress has adopted the Social Accountability Institute's SA8000 accepted and is currently accepting audited and evaluated for Cradle-To-Cradle certification.

About ICB, LLC - Samson Carts/CrateXpress
ICB, LLC is the ancestor aggregation of CrateXpress, a accumulated alteration accessories rental aggregation based in Chicago and is the architect of Samson Carts. ICB, LLC, is a artefact architect advance by a 24-year Facility Management veteran, David L. King AIA, CFM, with a eyes to advice Facility and Relocation professionals apprehend bigger and safer artefact offerings. Mr. King is a artist and architect of certified sustainable, environmentally acquainted articles for actual administration with a focus on Facility Management. His advocate architecture appearance a patented six-shelf foldable book/utility barrow fabricated of failing structural artificial that eliminates the charge for anachronous plywood fixed-shelf book carts and metal account carts. www.samsoncarts.com

About Sterling Planet
Winner of the U.S. Department of Energy 2007 Renewable Energy Marketer of the Year award, Sterling Planet is a sustainability avant-garde and avant-garde supplier of renewable energy, activity ability and low-carbon solutions. Sterling Planet develops new renewable activity and greenhouse gas abridgement projects and offers chip articles and casework to a ample applicant base, carrying supply- and demand-side solutions in the rapidly accretion ecology market. The aggregation was the aboriginal blooming ability banker to accompany the U.S. Green Building Council and to set a accumulated greenhouse gas abridgement ambition as a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Leaders Partner. Since 2001, sales of renewable activity to 1,355 business clients, 47 colleges and universities, 138 government agencies, 58 utilities and bags of residential barter accept abhorred added than 25 billon pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, which compares to demography 2.3 actor cars off the alley for a year. www.sterlingplanet.com

About EPA's Green Power Partnership
The Green Power Partnership is a autonomous affairs that encourages organizations to buy blooming ability as a way to abate the ecology impacts associated with purchased electricity use. The Partnership currently has hundreds of Partner organizations voluntarily purchasing billions of kilowatt-hours of blooming ability annually. Partners cover a advanced array of arch organizations such as Fortune 500 companies, baby and average sized businesses, local, state, and federal governments, and colleges and universities. For added information, amuse appointment http://www.epa.gov/greenpower.

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