Tree Canada - Canada’s First Carbon Neutral Grocery Store Opened in British Columbia

(Coquitlam, B.C., April 25, 2006) “Thrifty Foods is appreciative to advertise that we will be absolutely offsetting the greenhouse gases produced by our new abundance in Coquitlam with the burying of copse with Tree Canada,” said CEO Milford Sorensen today.

In affiliation with Tree Canada, Thrifty Foods afresh buried 1,776 copse in Manning Provincial Park and Colony Farm Regional Park―enough copse to blemish the carbon emissions from the abundance in a year, appropriately authoritative Thrifty Foods’ Coquitlam abundance the first-ever carbon aloof grocery abundance in Canada.

Planting copse may complete simple, but it’s aswell a complete action to action the accoutrement of all-around abating through “carbon sequestration.” That’s just a adorned way of adage that burying copse increases the assimilation of carbon dioxide and the assembly of oxygen in its lifetime. The boilerplate Canadian timberline sequesters 200 kg of atmospheric carbon. "We acknowledge Tree Canada for acceptance us to account our own carbon emissions and we animate others to do the same," said Sorensen.

"We are appreciative that Thrifty Foods has called Tree Canada to advice abate its carbon footprint," said Jeff Monty, Tree Canada President. "We appetite added companies, suppliers and individuals to chase Thrifty Foods’ archetype and account their operating emissions by burying copse with us.”


For added information, contact:

Jeffrey Monty, President, Tree Canada, jmonty@treecanada.ca (613) 567-5545 x224

Susan Postma, Communications Coordinator, spostma@thriftyfoods.com (250) 483-1177

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Tree Canada is a accommodating alignment accustomed to animate Canadians to bulb and affliction for copse in burghal and rural environments. To date, Tree Canada has affianced added than 60 Canadian companies and government agencies to abutment the burying of added than 75 actor trees, the greening of added than 350 schoolyards, 6 civic burghal forestry conferences, and added efforts to sensitize Canadians to the allowances of burying and advancement trees. More advice about Tree Canada is accessible at www.tcf-fca.ca .