Message #2 From:
NewsBot Date: October 9, 2006 04:30:00 AM
SLRE News Leading CA Green Groups Embrace Planktos Ecorestoration to Erase Their Carbon Footprints
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Thoreau Center and the Earth Island Institute are happy to announce
that all of their 100+ NGO offices and projects will be carbon neutral
throughout 2007 thanks to a generous donation of ecosystem restoration
carbon offsets from Planktos, Inc. of Foster City, CA.
According to Planktos CEO and Chief Scientist Russ George, "We honor
these transformative organizations for following in the footsteps of
legendary environmentalist David Brower who committed himself in his
final years to Ecosystem Restoration for Generations yet Unborn.
"David founded the Global CPR Service (C for conservation, P for
preservation, and R for restoration) 'to help catalyze the restoration
of natural and human systems,' but his passing and current US policies
have slowed progress to his goal. At Planktos we are now working to
fulfill David's last and greatest objective, conserving, preserving and,
above all, restoring the ocean and forest ecosystems on which all life
depends."
Although downplayed by industrial CO2 solution providers and their
policy allies, natural ocean and forest restoration is the most
effective, inexpensive and urgently needed response to global warming,
marine crises, and habitat collapse. Just restoring the marine plankton
that human activities have killed off since 1980 can reduce atmospheric
CO2 by 3-4 billion tons, more than four times the Kyoto Protocol's
current inadequate target. More importantly, it will also lower ocean
acidity and recharge the marine food chain for fish, birds and whales.
Thanks to Kyoto Protocol carbon offset markets Planktos has secured
green funding to accelerate this long overdue effort with a number of
research-intensive pilot projects of significant climatic and ecological
scale. Planktos is happy to share its current and future carbon credits
with environmental allies in this cause.
These initial contributions will be acknowledged in a noon briefing at
the Thoreau Center for Thoreau & Earth Island friends and associates on
Thursday, October 12th. The event will feature a brief illustrated
seminar on the science, economics and global urgency of ecosystem
restoration for both climatic and ecological health.
Thoreau Center for Sustainability: Located in San Francisco's Presidio,
the Thoreau Center houses a vibrant and influential community of 70
primarily non-profit organizations working for environmental health and
social justice. Powerfully networked and synergistically supportive,
this progressive village has been an internationally important source of
vision and effective activism for a generation. See participating tenant
list here: http://thoreau.org/Tenants/tenantlist.html.
Earth Island Institute: Founded in 1982 by the renowned David Brower,
EII now umbrellas 38 separate projects at the forefront of environmental
research and defense. EII also sponsors the annual Brower Youth Awards
"to call forth a new generation of environmental leaders" and is one of
the key organizations constructing the David Brower Center in Berkeley,
a multimillion dollar complex that promises to be the greenest building
in the state both in its design and activities. See EII's trail-blazing
track record here: http://earthisland.org/abouteii/abouteii.html.
Ecorestoration Offset Donor
Planktos, Inc. is an ecosystem restoration firm specializing in
permanent climate forest parks and blue ocean phytoplankton
resuscitation. The company is now acquiring its own research flagship
from which it will soon launch a new series of large science-intensive
pilot projects to revive failing ocean plankton populations in the
Pacific, Atlantic and Southern Ocean basins. This in turn can buffer
ocean acidity, replenish the marine food chain, and sequester millions
of tons of CO2 for centuries or more. SRI and green cosponsors are
welcome to participate in subsequent blooms. See http://planktos.com
for details.
Planktos' Budapest subsidiary KlimaFa (Climate Tree) has just received
Hungarian government approval to reforest tens of thousands of degraded
acres back to biodiverse mixed species forests. From the moment of
planting, these young climate forests will be included in existing
national parks where they will be strictly protected in perpetuity.
KlimaFa will run these eco-protective and village-sustaining projects in
collaborative partnership with Hungary's government, National Park
Service, and Academy of Sciences. They will be entirely funded out of
the restored forests' accumulating carbon credit value. See http://Klimafa.com
for more.
