The Green Cup of Polo is Washington D.C.'s First Cleaner and Greener Certified® Event

Leonardo Academy, a accommodating non-profit alignment committed to advancing sustainability through the aggressive market, appear today that The Green Cup of Polo, to be captivated in Potomac, Maryland on July 19, 2008, has becoming accident acceptance beneath Leonardo Academy's Cleaner and Greener® Program. The Cleaner and Greener® Program certifies contest and organizations for abbreviation and offsetting emissions acquired by activity use. This affairs addresses the abounding ambit of emissions that appulse animal bloom and accord to altitude change, including CO2, SO2, NOx, chapped matter, and mercury.

Madison, WI -- Leonardo Academy, a accommodating non-profit alignment committed to advancing sustainability through the aggressive market, appear today that The Green Cup of Polo, to be captivated in Potomac, Maryland on July 19, 2008, has becoming accident acceptance beneath Leonardo Academy's Cleaner and Greener® Program. The Cleaner and Greener® Program certifies contest and organizations for abbreviation and offsetting emissions acquired by activity use. This affairs addresses the abounding ambit of emissions that appulse animal bloom and accord to altitude change, including CO2, SO2, NOx, chapped matter, and mercury.

Sponsored by the Capitol Polo Club of Montgomery County, Maryland, The Green Cup of Polo is the aboriginal Cleaner and Greener® Certified accident in the Washington DC area. Climate Clean has donated abundant "intelligent offsets" -- the company's proprietary mix of all six greenhouse gases, sourced from emissions reductions projects including activity bearing and efficiency, agriculture, and automated gas abatement -- to account 100% of the CO2 and NOx emissions generated by this event.

In accession to accepting certified carbon neutral, The Green Cup of Polo has congenital cogent blooming practices into about every basic of the event. Key eco-conscious elements cover press on recycled cardboard with soy-based ink, confined amoebic and sustainably developed aliment and beverages, application biodegradable confined ware, all-encompassing recycling and composting of accident waste, t-shirts fabricated from amoebic affection and reusable VIP accoutrements for accident attendees, hiring an eco-friendly charwoman crew, and announcement blooming companies. Also, the outdoors attributes of the accident minimizes electricity burning associated with accident activities.

In accession to accepting an admirable 'green' accident in agreement of acceptable practices, The Green Cup of Polo aswell raises acquaintance of ecology issues and supports bounded ecology organizations. The profits from this year's accident will account the afterward organizations:
 

ACORE (American Council on Renewable Energy): a nonprofit based in Washington D.C., that works to advanced renewable activity (including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and biofuels, decay activity and hydropower) into the boilerplate of America's abridgement and affairs through collaborative analysis and advice EarthEcho International: a nonprofit alignment that uses media and adventures to empower humans to use assets that can restore and assure Earth's ocean and freshwater systems EPIC (Equestrian Partners in Conservation): a nonprofit created to bottle the equestrian ancestry and rural appearance of Montgomery County, Maryland, through accustomed ability attention and aegis Live Green: an alignment adherent to authoritative eco-friendly and socially amenable active and business practices accessible, affordable and easy. Live Green serves as a communication to consumers in seek of blooming products, blooming jobs, acceptable aliment and eco-friendly casework and to businesses that accommodate these casework and that are analytic for affordable alternatives to advice blooming their operations.Michael Arny, President of Leonardo Academy said, "The Green Cup of Polo is absolutely an avant-garde 'green' accident in that it utilizes assorted eco-conscious strategies to access acquaintance of a advanced ambit of ecology issues. We acclaim The Green Cup of Polo for its extensive efforts to be a sustainable, carbon aloof accident and for its banking abutment of key ecology organizations. This accident has set an outstanding antecedent for blooming contest not alone in the Washington DC across but above the nation."

Arny continued, "We would aswell like to acknowledge Climate Clean for it acceptable donation of discharge offsets to advice accomplish The Green Cup of Polo a Cleaner and Greener® Certified event. This is Leonardo Academy's aboriginal acquaintance alive with both Climate Clean and The Green Cup of Polo organizers, and we attending advanced to architecture sustainability-focused relationships with these groups in the future."

To apprentice added about The Green Cup of Polo, appointment http://www.greencuppolo.com/greenpoloclub.php and http://www.cleanerandgreener.org/eventcertification/events/greencupofpolo2008.html.

To apprentice added about Climate Clean, appointment http://climateclean.net/.

About Leonardo Academy:
Leonardo Academy (www.leonardoacademy.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit alignment founded in 1997 that is committed to advancing sustainability and putting the aggressive bazaar to plan on convalescent the environment. We are a "Think and Do Tank." We advance and deliver new strategies, guidance, metrics, standards, education, and advice on how to access sustainability. We aswell advice companies, organizations, families, and individuals auspiciously promote, encourage, and apparatus sustainability. Our chip access makes sustainability actual applied for our clients. We provide: sustainability assessments and strategies for companies and organizations, LEED® and LEED-EB accomplishing and certification, emissions brand appraisal and discharge abridgement and account strategies, acceptable acreage management, sustainability apprenticeship and training, and Cleaner and Greener Certification® of discharge abridgement and account achievements for events, companies and organizations, and individuals (www.cleanerandgreener.org).