Innovative Washington Dairy Project Addresses Climate Change

eBay, Stonyfield Farm, Brita, and Effect Partners help build project with NativeEnergySOUTH BURLINGTON, VT – March 22, 2011 – A project in Washington State will support local dairy farms and reduce approximately 4,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year. eBay, Stonyfield Farm, Brita, and Effect Partners are enabling this project through the purchase of NativeEnergy’s Help Build™ carbon offsets. Conventionally, manure storage on dairy farms results in the release of methane—a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than CO2—into the atmosphere. The Rainier Farm Biogas Project in