Sunday, December 20, 2009

The Las Vegas-Based N9NE GROUP Goes Carbon Neutral in 2008

Co-owner Jenna Morton spearheads a above action with Green Mountain Energy's BeGreen Carbon Offsets analysis through acquirement of renewable activity credits.

Las Vegas, Nevada -- The N9NE Group, a Las Vegas-based restaurant and bistro company, is traveling aloft and above reducing, reusing, and recycling by partnering with BeGreen, a analysis of Green Mountain Energy, the nation's arch retail provider of cleaner activity and carbon offset solutions. The N9NE Group is offsetting 100 percent of the absolute affected carbon dioxide emissions associated with its anniversary electricity, refrigerant, and accustomed gas use in 2007 and 2008 for six of its venues at the Palms Casino Resort. These carbon offsets accept the aforementioned ecology appulse as demography added than 350 cars off the alley annually, burying added than 19,000 trees, or recycling added than 10.3 actor aluminum cans.

Jenna Morton

We abide on this earth. It is the abode we all alarm home I'm appreciative of the efforts we've fabricated appropriately far, but carbon aloof doesn't cut it anymore. We are abbreviation our appulse on the foreground end. Our ambition is to accomplish traveling 'negative' positive. This acquirement shows abundant charge on the allotment of the N9NE Group, and it's accessible that Jenna and her aggregation are actual amorous about attention the ambiance for approaching generations It's one affair for a business to admit its ecology impact. The N9NE Group is assuming administration by demography action to advice affect change. to change the way ability is made. Under the administration of co-owner Jenna Morton, a self-described "granola," this accord is the N9NE Group's a lot of advancing action to date appear a bigger environment. A aggregate of Green-e certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) and Forest Sequestration Offsets will cede N9NE Steakhouse, Nove Italiano, Rain Nightclub, ghostbar, MOON Nightclub, and the Playboy Club carbon neutral.

"We abide on this earth. It is the abode we all alarm home," states Jenna. "I'm appreciative of the efforts we've fabricated appropriately far, but carbon aloof doesn't cut it anymore. We are abbreviation our appulse on the foreground end. Our ambition is to accomplish traveling 'negative' positive."

The N9NE Group's charge to purchasing RECs from Green Mountain Energy Company's BeGreen analysis helps drive the development of added renewable activity sources by acknowledging the architecture and operation of cleaner activity projects like wind, solar, hydro, and biomass facilities. It will account an anniversary boilerplate of 1.5 actor pounds of carbon dioxide, a adverse greenhouse gas and arch contributor to global altitude change. A allocation will aswell be appointed for the AMP-Ohio/Green Mountain Energy Wind Farm amid in Bowling Green, Ohio. These RECs play an important role in continuing the allotment for this wind agent ability and advice account a allocation of the emissions from electricity use, a arch could cause of automated air pollution.

"This acquirement shows abundant charge on the allotment of the N9NE Group, and it's accessible that Jenna and her aggregation are actual amorous about attention the ambiance for approaching generations," comments Gillan Taddune, arch ecology administrator of Green Mountain Energy Company. "It's one affair for a business to admit its ecology impact. The N9NE Group is assuming administration by demography action to advice affect change."   

Additionally, Forest Sequestration Offsets were acquired to abrogate 100 percent of the accustomed gas emissions created by the venues in 2007. Trees will be buried in the Mendocino National Forest Hunter Fire Restoration Project through Green Mountain's backwoods aloofness partner, American Forests, offsetting 490 metric bags of CO2.

This accord with BeGreen and Green Mountain Energy Company added builds on the N9NE Group's connected efforts to abate its ecology impact. Jenna, the wife of N9NE Group architect Michael Morton and mother of three, drives a Volkswagen Jetta powered by recycled vegetable oil from N9NE Steakhouse. She has implemented a amount of blooming practices and articles throughout the N9NE Group venues. Their APEX System dishwashers not alone account how abundant soap and baptize is acclimated per person, but aswell adapt it by aural an all-overs if too abundant is used. The N9NE Group buys 100 percent recycled cardboard fabricated from post-consumer fiber, Biorenewables bottle cleaner, and ammonia and bleach-free All-Purpose Hydrogen Peroxide Cleaner. In addition, all bottles and cans are recycled, all back-of-the-house advisers are accustomed reusable baptize bottles to abate artificial waste, and no aerosol cleaners are used.

Jenna is aswell committed to abundant added causes as Director of Community Relations for the N9NE Group. She actively supports DIFFA's (Design Industry Foundation Fighting AIDS) Style Council, After School All-Stars, Keep Memory Alive, the ONE Campaign, League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, Clean Energy Coalition, and Conservation International, a allotment of others.   
         
The N9NE Group, the Las Vegas-based aggregation founded by Michael Morton and Scott DeGraff, is amenable for the conception and operation of groundbreaking restaurant and bistro concepts in Chicago, Las Vegas, and Dallas. They launched their signature concepts, N9NE Steakhouse and ghostbar in 2000 in Chicago. With the 2001 aperture of the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, they debuted N9NE Steakhouse, Rain Nightclub, ghostbar, and Skin Pool Lounge. After tens of millions of dollars in renovations, Skin was adapted into the new, adult Palms Pool & Bungalows in June 2006. In abatement 2006, added N9NE Group nightspots were added to the Fantasy Tower including Nove Italiano, the Playboy Club Las Vegas, and MOON Nightclub. The $3 billion Victory Project in Dallas, TX, which aswell opened in 2006, is home to N9NE Steakhouse, ghostbar, and Nove Italiano. The Las Vegas venues are amid in the Palms Casino Resort at 4321 West Flamingo Road. For reservations, or for added information, alarm 702.938.9999 or appointment www.n9negroup.com.

BeGreen , the latest solution-based artefact from Green Mountain Energy Company, provides businesses and consumers the befalling to account their carbon footprint through the acquirement of renewable energy, backwoods sequestration, and added activity based offsets. Green Mountain Energy Company, the nation's arch provider of cleaner activity and carbon account solutions, began in 1997 with a simple idea: "to change the way ability is made." The aggregation offers consumers and businesses the best of cleaner electricity articles application renewable sources such as wind, baptize and solar that advice abate the aggregate of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the air. For added advice amuse appointment www.greenmountain.com and www.begreennow.com.

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