Alkemists Sets The Bar, Becoming a 'Green' Analytical Laboratory

Alkemists Pharmaceuticals today appear that it has partnered with Green Mountain Energy Company to crop the all-important accomplish in offsetting 100% of the absolute affected carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions thereby enabling them to accomplish as a "carbon neutral" analytic laboratory. Today, it is difficult not to be acquainted of the imbalances we accept aback created for our planet

Costa Mesa, CA -- Alkemists Pharmaceuticals today appear that it has partnered with Green Mountain Energy Company to crop the all-important accomplish in offsetting 100% of the absolute affected carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions thereby enabling them to accomplish as a "carbon neutral" analytic laboratory.

Partnering with Green Mountain Energy Company to actualize a CO2 emissions brand for Alkemists's absolute operation, they accept abstinent the emissions appulse of anniversary electricity, refrigerant and accustomed gas usage, agent commuting and accumulated air travel. The emissions were begin to be about 31 metric bags of CO2. To put that in perspective, that is about the aforementioned ecology appulse as active a car about 76,000 miles! It is agnate to demography about 6 cars off the alley annually or burying added than 4,100 trees. Furthermore, by offsetting these emissions, it has the aforementioned ecology appulse as recycling over 168,000 aluminum cans and recycling over 27,300 pounds of newspaper.

By purchasing abundant Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) fabricated from wind sources, Alkemists account 100% of their electricity and refrigerant (A/C) accompanying CO2 emissions in 2007 and 2008. This charge will advice account over 11 metric bags of carbon dioxide, a adverse greenhouse gas and abeyant cogent contributor of all-around altitude change.

Alkemists has aswell committed to acrid 100% of the emissions created in 2007 and 2008 by the accustomed gas usage, agent commuting and accumulated air biking which accept account over 20 metric bags of CO2 through the acquirement of Forest Sequestration Offsets. Trees will be buried in the Mendocino National Forest Hunter Fire Restoration Project through Green Mountain's backwoods aloofness partner, American Forests.

"Today, it is difficult not to be acquainted of the imbalances we accept aback created for our planet," declared Elan Sudberg, Lab Manager of Alkemists Pharmaceuticals. "As a accidental agency in the assorted ecology issues I feel that it is our albatross to be accountable in some way. Going carbon aloof is a abundant and abundantly simple way to move advanced in a allusive attack to disengage the adverse byproducts of operating an analytic laboratory. In actuality we are traveling aloft and above our affected emissions by alive with The Arbor Day Foundation and their Rain Forest Rescue and Reforestation Program."

For the accomplished decade, Alkemists Pharmaceuticals, an absolute above ascendancy laboratory, has focused on the Dietary Supplement Industry's cocky adjustment and has emerged as the accustomed best for independent, third-party analysis, as able-bodied as a reliable abstruse and above ascendancy accomplice for companies bearing comestible supplements. With over 850 breed of botanicals analyzed and an centralized herbarium absolute added than 6000 botanical specimens, enabling assorted breed cross-referencing, Alkemists has become the 'go to' lab for independent, third-party accustomed artefact appraisal and accidental testing appraisal and certification.

If you'd like added advice about this topic, or to agenda an interview, amuse acquaintance Elan Sudberg at (714) 754-4372 or by email at Elan @ alkemist.com.

Green Your Diet for a Healthier Planet

See the top 3 things to accent if planning a blooming meal, and apprentice how simple changes in diet can accept a absolute appulse on the ambiance and why. Use Eco Hatchery's chargeless online carbon calculator to admeasurement your comestible carbon footprint, and again account your appulse on all-around abating with the Eco Starter Kit which helps abate greenhouse gas emissions by 2.5 tons, agnate to not bistro 671 servings of beef.

Milwaukee, WI -- Health and anatomy aren't all that's afflicted by your diet choices. What you eat has a cogent appulse on all-around abating as well.

A archetypal American diet accounts for an estimated 2.4 bags of greenhouse gas emissions a year, due to the top use of deposit fuels in the production, harvesting, processing, busline and storage, in accession to a top allotment of inefficient protein sources in meats. Compare this to a developing country area the absolute greenhouse gas emissions per capita is just over 1 ton for transportation, housing, and diet.

When planning a blooming meal for yourself, accompany and family, accent the following:

1. Serve acquaintance fruits and vegetables or buy bounded aftermath from a adjacent vendor. Homegrown vegetables are the a lot of environmentally aloof antecedent of food, decidedly if accumulated with home composting and basal artificial fertilizer application. Organic agriculture practices abate absolute CO2 and added greenhouse gas emissions by eliminating deposit ammunition based fertilizers. It aswell facilitates administration of emission-generating abominable and vegetable waste. Note that active added than your bounded bazaar to "shop local" can aftereffect in added emissions from your auto than is adored by artery transport.

2. Use fresh, rather than pre-packaged, food. Food burning generates ample amounts of carbon dioxide due to processing, packaging and inefficiencies in the US aliment assembly system. An boilerplate aliment account campaign 1,300 afar afore extensive your table (i). The boilerplate emissions per being in the U.S. for aliment production, processing and busline is 2.4 bags CO2 (ii). In 2002, aliment assembly accounted for 17% of all deposit ammunition use in the U.S.

3. Choose a meat with a low carbon footprint. The a lot of carbon-efficient meat in the U.S. is banty which rapidly converts acreage inputs into protein. Due to the ability of poultry, a diet consisting alone of chicken and plant-based foods would accept a lower ecology appulse than a angle or octo-lavo diet. Surprisingly, angle is a allotment of the a lot of deposit fuel-intensive aliment artefact in the U.S. This is due to the top akin of deposit fuels acclimated in both apricot agriculture and in the agriculture of big-fin angle such as adolescent and swordfish. Overall, angle emissions are lower than beef, pork and lamb because angle assembly generates lower methane and nitrous oxide emissions. Inner bank and freshwater (non farmed) angle accept a decidedly lower appulse on greenhouse gas emissions. Please see the "CO2 Per Serving" chart.

To acquisition out how your diet accepted impacts your carbon brand and why, try Eco Hatchery's online carbon calculator. You can admeasurement your comestible carbon brand based on one of several archetypal diets, or absolutely account based on your archetypal account servings of fish, meats, dairy and eggs.

To account your ecology impact, use the Eco Starter Kit to alpha abbreviation domiciliary emissions by about 2.5 tons, agnate to not bistro 671 servings of beef. Packed with high-impact articles for greening your home, the kit includes a "cookbook" anecdotic the rationale, action and time bare for accomplishing the easy, earth-loving activities. In addition, the kit helps you save over $260/year in account bills. Eco Starter Kit ambit are 16" x 15" x 4". Price: $97.50.

Based in Milwaukee, WI, Eco Hatchery is "hatching" blooming homes by allowance individuals crop the aboriginal accomplish against activity attention and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The web website appearance alone recommendations for energy-saving articles and projects, an Eco Shop, and Eco Communities for accumulation the carbon brand of groups and tracking reductions.

Sources:
[i Heller, M. C., and G.A. Keoleian, 2000: Life cycle-based sustainability indicators for appraisal of the US aliment system. Rep. CSS0004, Center for Sustainable Systems, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, p. 41 (Note: this abstracts is based on a 1960 Department of Defense Study. Since that time, aliment accumulation chains accept assuredly diffuse substantially. Unfortunately, no absolute studies of accepted aliment accumulation alternation exist).
[ii Horrigan, L., R.S. Lawrence, and P. Walker, 2002: How acceptable agronomics can abode the ecology and animal bloom harms of automated agriculture. Environ. Health Persp., 110, 445-456.

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