Holiday Shopping Procrastinators Could Help Save the World

CI's 'Season's Greenings' attack offers different online anniversary gifts.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 21, 2007 -- Take affection those who accept yet to complete - or even alpha -- their anniversary arcade for accompany and admired ones. By authoritative an online donation at conservation.org/holidaygift, those analytic for an innovative, and last-minute, allowance advantage can accomplish a tax-deductible donation in account of someone, which will go to assure basic biodiversity above our planet.

Olive Ridley turtle authoritative its way to the sea.

Recipients will accept a admirable alone e-card on the specific date the donor selects. Each e-card includes active adumbration and a description of the different ecology abundance that the allowance will advice protect. Gift-givers may aswell baddest to book out a allowance agenda to supplement the e-card or to present in lieu of an online notification, such as a stocking stuffer.

The ability are accessible in a array of budgetary increments, alignment from $20 to $100,000 and advice break the some of a lot of acute ecology issues on the planet. Gift-givers may baddest from 14 altered online allowance options, including:

-   Gifts to save endangered breed such as the Tiger starting at $20.
-   A allowance of alone $50 to barrier altitude change by attention forests in Madagascar.
-   A $500 donation to aegis the endangered Mountain Gorilla, which faced a above setback this summer if six adults were collapsed in the Congo, abrogation two drop babies.
-   A allowance for those who accept everything. A high-end allowance from $10,000 to $100,000 to forward a aggregation of CI scientists to appraise and advice save the a lot of biologically affluent areas of the Earth.

Conservation International appear a analysis endure ages which begin that a majority (53%) of Americans would adopt to accept blooming ability this anniversary division compared to a acceptable allowance of according value. Two in 5 (43%) Americans aswell said that they plan on giving blooming ability during the holidays.

SURVEY FINDINGS:

Americans Ready to Give and Get Green

-   One-third (33%) of Americans would rather absorb money on a anniversary allowance that is environmentally friendly, compared to a acceptable allowance like a camera (33%) or watch (22%).
-   Clothing fabricated from amoebic cotton, a donation in their name to assure an endangered breed or forest, and amoebic claimed affliction articles were a allotment of the a lot of accepted blooming gifts.
-   Almost bisected (49%) of Americans say they do not accede that they are acquainted of blooming ability options they could accord this year.
-   Women are added absorbed in accepting blooming ability than men (62% vs. 53%).

Survey Methodology

The analysis was conducted by Opinion Research Corporation via telephone. One thousand American adults 18 years or earlier were surveyed from September 28-October 1, 2007. The allowance of absurdity is +/-3%. The abounding analysis after-effects are accessible aloft request.

Recognition as Responsible Charity

More than 85 percent of CI's costs go anon to attention programs and alone 4 percent to fundraising, earning CI an "A" ability appraisement from the American Institute of Philanthropy for 10 years running. CI has aswell accustomed a 4-star appraisement from Charity Navigator, America's better absolute analyzer of charities.

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Media Contacts:
Marshall Maher, Conservation International
703-341-2623
www.conservation.org

Jessica Mendelowitz, Ketchum
646-935-4173

The Nature Conservancy Offers One-of-a-Kind Holiday Gift Options

No Hidden Shipping Charges: Just Green Gifts to Help Save Our Natural World

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 12, 2007 -- This anniversary season, The Nature Conservancy’s online anniversary allowance abundance makes green-giving easier than ever. The 2007 Green Gift Guide ensures that your ability of attributes -- ability that will accumulate giving for years to appear -- are just a mouse-click away.

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This year, we’ve fabricated additions to our online Green Gift Guide, which cover ability for him, her and the kids, all at amount levels that will fit anyone’s budget These different anniversary ability will advice to assure and bottle attributes for approaching generations. Your accompany and admired ones will acknowledge these blooming ability all year long. “This year, we’ve fabricated additions to our online Green Gift Guide, which cover ability for him, her and the kids, all at amount levels that will fit anyone’s budget,” said Sue Citro, Senior Digital Membership Manager at The Nature Conservancy.

“These different anniversary ability will advice to assure and bottle attributes for approaching generations. Your accompany and admired ones will acknowledge these blooming ability all year long.”

The Nature Conservancy’s blooming allowance offerings cover opportunities to accept an acre of rainforest and protect apricot reefs about the apple -- even a adventitious sponsor an campaign of discovery to a arena never afore explored by humans. Along with the achievement of accidental to the attention of Earth’s a lot of adored places, allowance recipients will accept a certificate, a bright fact-filled brochure, a one-year cable to Nature Conservancy magazine, and a alone e-card.

As an added bonus, there’s no burden to adjustment by the absolute date for centralized delivery. Last-minute shoppers accept the advantage of sending a photo e-card that will advertise your allowance on any day you choose.

For added advice or to abode an order, amuse appointment nature.org/greengifts.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at nature.org.

Contact
Nicole Levins
(703) 841-5839

Beat the Credit Crunch Through Resource Efficiency, Says Envirowise

Inefficient use of assets is still costing UK industry at atomic £15 billion anniversary year1, according to acceptable business able Envirowise. The Envirowise affairs provides free government-supported, advice, ecology appointment and documentation. With the acclaim crisis affecting all sectors, simple accumulation from ability ability could be a acceptable accession to basal lines.

Oxford, UK -- Figures from an Envirowise analysis conducted two years ago showed that a third of appointment workers acquainted that no action was taken to abate ability use in the workplace2, while a added contempo analysis begin that 82 per cent of UK businesses are now implementing accomplish appear arrest ecology issues3.

Envirowise - applied ecology admonition for business
Every aggregation has an appulse on the environment, and Environmental Legislation has been developed to ensure that their appulse stays aural able limits. Envirowise will advice you to annihilate or abate the could cause of your company's ecology appulse and advice you to accede with all accordant legislation.

It is auspicious that bisected of the 82 per cent of businesses demography accomplish to be added acceptable accede that there's still abundant added they can do We apperceive that generally businesses are impeded in their mission to be greener by time constraints and abridgement of ability about how to put new measures into practice. This is area Envirowise comes in. We aim to advice businesses acquisition added applied means to be acceptable and accomplish cost, abstracts or time accumulation in the process. The accepted bread-and-butter altitude requires us to be astute spenders both as individuals and business people. Achieving accumulation through bigger use of assets has a actual aftereffect on companies' basal curve and as a aftereffect we accept generally apparent bigger agents action and morale Getting started on the alley to ability ability can be simple and straightforward. And while chief administration buy-in is acute to success, the actuality is that any affiliate of agents in an organisation - at any akin - can accomplish a absolute difference. This may be partly due to afflicted chump attitudes: a analysis agitated out by YouGov on account of KPMG4, has apparent that 90 per cent of Britons accept become added environmentally acquainted at home - with four out of ten respondents accommodating to pay added for blooming products.

Envirowise is agog to see alone charge agitated added into the workplace. "It is auspicious that bisected of the 82 per cent of businesses demography accomplish to be added acceptable accede that there's still abundant added they can do," comments Elaine Sharp, Programme Marketing Manager. "We apperceive that generally businesses are impeded in their mission to be greener by time constraints and abridgement of ability about how to put new measures into practice."

"This is area Envirowise comes in. We aim to advice businesses acquisition added applied means to be acceptable and accomplish cost, abstracts or time accumulation in the process. "

A afresh launched online apparatus 'Words to the wise'5 - www.envirowise.gov.uk/change - can be a advantageous starting point. It will advice companies appraise the way they use assets and will accommodate cardinal abutment on how to improve.

"The accepted bread-and-butter altitude requires us to be astute spenders both as individuals and business people. Achieving accumulation through bigger use of assets has a actual aftereffect on companies' basal curve and as a aftereffect we accept generally apparent bigger agents action and morale" explains Elaine Sharp.

"Getting started on the alley to ability ability can be simple and straightforward. And while chief administration buy-in is acute to success, the actuality is that any affiliate of agents in an organisation - at any akin - can accomplish a absolute difference."
Companies absent to crop advantage of the casework of the Envirowise programme and accessible environmental events and seek admonition from our able admiral can alarm 0800 585794 or appointment www.envirowise.gov.uk

Issued on account of Envirowise by The Mistral Group
For added advice contact, Alison Hill or Lucinda Roberts on 01869 352 722 / alison.hill@mistral-pr.co.uk or 01869 352 729 / lucinda.roberts @ mistral-pr.co.uk
Notes to editors:
1. Envirowise advertisement 'Green Officiency '
2. Tick box surveyed a sample of 1894 appointment workers, age-old 16 years and above, above the UK amid 19 May and 9 June 2006.
3. Envirowise Market Penetration and Messaging, three-phase analysis conducted by Databuild amid April and September 2007, with inferior and chief agents at 200 ample businesses.
4. Research conducted online on account of KPMG by YouGov amidst 2,350 adults in Great Britain age-old 18 and over, amid 22 and 27 May 2008.
5. 'Word to the wise' is a chargeless online apparatus from Envirowise; it guides users through the action of accumulation the account of ability ability and decay minimisation aural their business. A abbreviate check identifies area the organisation is now, makes suggestions on area to go next and provides advantageous accoutrement and cardinal abutment for demography those steps. www.envirowise.gov.uk/change

About Envirowise
Envirowise delivers a ambit of chargeless casework and able admonition to businesses above the UK - including a absolute ambit of publications and acceptable convenance case studies, applied workshops for firms, as able-bodied as a absolute website and admonition line. Since 1994 Envirowise has helped UK businesses save over £1bn by enabling them to decidedly abate their ecology footprints.

Green Energy Made Feasible with Innovations in Geothermal Power Plants

A blooming activity aggregation based in Iceland has fabricated contempo advances in geothermal technology that will accomplish it accessible to appearance out smog-producing atramentous plants with geothermal ability plants.

Reykjavik, Iceland -- Someday anon the apple will be cleaner, acknowledgment to efforts and innovations by Kaldara Green Energy, a Norwegian/Icelandic architect of geothermal electrical ability production equipment. According to achievement studies and specs on its latest KAPS ('Kaldara Power System') geothermal ability plant, its innovations in geothermal technology will accomplish a acceptable addition to atramentous or accustomed gas.

It is a accepted confounding that ability assembly is added big-ticket by application renewable activity instead of deposit ammunition and Iceland has already accurate the case for geothermal ability production It is arduous in that this is a different 'win-win' bearings of accepting the everyman ability bearing amount available, aswell accepting the a lot of environmentally friendly. KAPS are alembic based 5 MW geothermal ability plants that can accomplish stand-alone and are aswell able of alive calm in ability farms. Because of baby sizes KAPS can be added calmly adopted to the ambiance than ample ability bulb structures. KAPS on-surface units can be acclimated for all types of Wet/Dry and Binary/Flash geothermal Systems. The KAPS abstraction is to abode a miniature ability abode in accepted sized containers next to the assembly boreholes. The containers could be placed hidden into hillside areas or placed underground to abstain abhorrent structures in the environment, in abounding adaptation with ecology groups. Using KAPS could accordingly extend the ability of environmentally affable corruption for electrical ability assembly worldwide. With the KAPS approach, boreholes can be acclimatized at an beforehand date or aural weeks afterwards conduct is completed, admitting the accepted access requires borehole appraisal aeon of 3-5 years afore ability production. Thus the beforehand assets abandoned can in a lot of cases pay majority of the KAPS investment. KAPS units can be organized in ability farms of aforementioned accommodation as ample geothermal ability plants and even larger.

Outstanding ability is alone to be compared with 30-50 MW awful beat accepted geothermal ability plants. By beat technology and admeasurement acclimation KAPS compares in amount capability pr MW with the beyond accepted geothermal ability plants. Cost comparisons appearance an outstanding bread-and-butter affability for assembly from geothermal beef with prices abundant lower than for atramentous or accustomed gas.

"It is a accepted confounding that ability assembly is added big-ticket by application renewable activity instead of deposit ammunition and Iceland has already accurate the case for geothermal ability production," says Skuli Johannsson Manager of Kaldara Green Energy and columnist of a appear article on KAPS. "It is arduous in that this is a different 'win-win' bearings of accepting the everyman ability bearing amount available, aswell accepting the a lot of environmentally friendly."

The KAPS technology lowers barriers of access into the branch of geothermal ability production, until now belted by the amount of assembly boreholes (>10) all-important to accomplish acceptable activity for an economical adaptation of accepted geothermal ability plants (>30 MW). With modular and small-step access of developing geothermal fields, boreholes can now be acclimatized at an beforehand date to accomplish faster revenues. KAPS ability plants are branch installed in containers. This adjustable access allows for reallocation in case of declining crop of boreholes.

About Kaldara Green Energy:
Kaldara Green Energy is a Norwegian/Icelandic company, with focus on assembly of KAPS geothermal electrical ability assembly equipment. Headquarters are in Reykjavik, Iceland. Green Energy Group AS (GEG) is a Norwegian captivation company, which amount business across is to seek banking opportunities aural the geothermal blooming activity space. GEG holds 100% of the Equity in the Icelandic Kaldara Green Energy. Green Energy Group seeks ally in geothermal ability bulb projects common and abnormally in the USA area US government has advertise this ages affairs for leasing of acreage with top abeyant for geothermal assets in 11 Western states and Alaska.

Contact:
Green Energy Group AS
Oslo, Norway
Stig Torvund, Chairman
Telephone: +44 7702811703

Kaldara Green Energy ehf
Reykjavik, Iceland
Skuli Johannsson, Manager
Telephone: +354 5354900

Article: http://www.kaldara.com/aboutus/articles