Winter Festival of Lights is lighting the way to a GREENER Niagara!

With the support from LivClean Carbon Offset Solutions, AgroGreen Canada and P & C Compostech, the 2009 Winter Festival of Lights will be much greener, winter snow not withstanding.

As Canada’s largest illumination festival, the Winter Festival of Lights has partnered with LivClean Carbon Offset Solutions to make this year’s event carbon neutral.  As a top ranked provider of carbon offsets and sustainable solutions, LivClean helps businesses measure their carbon emissions as well as identify and fund reduction strategies to balance off their environmental impact through carbon offsetting.

By purchasing carbon offsets in support of emission-reducing projects across the country such as renewable energy, sustainable farming, energy efficiency, composting and recycling - the Winter Festival of Lights will be completely ‘carbon neutral’.  This initiative will eliminate the Festival’s current carbon footprint of 48 tonnes.

By accepting Green the Festival donations through WFOL.com, the Winter Festival of Lights expects it will be able to purchase a further 400 plus carbon offsets which could feasibly remove the equivalent emissions of nearly all the vehicles that drive through the Winter Wonderland illumination area.  A portion of the online Green the Festival donations will also support the Festival’s local efforts at energy efficiency, conservation and recycling.

Over the past several years, the Festival has made a concerted effort to utilize LED technology for new lighting initiatives and to convert its existing illuminations.  This has greatly reduced the Festival’s energy consumption as LED lights use 90% less energy than traditional, incandescent lighting.

Converting its remaining incandescent displays to LED lighting is being supported by Agrogreen Canada, a Canadian corporation dedicated to developing and marketing environmentally friendly products around the globe, and P & C Compostech, a distributor of compostable and biodegradable plastic packaging products for the food service industry as an alternative to polystyrene. Their support is making it possible for the Festival to completely refurbish its animated Enchantment of Disney® display, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Additionally, the Festival will be using only compostable and biodegradable products such as plates and cutlery distributed by P & C Compostech for its event and volunteer food requirements.  

Regardless of the time spent in Niagara Falls, we recognize visitors to the Winter Festival of Lights are concerned about their environmental impact when travelling.  The Festival shares your concerns and is doing its part to make your visit to Niagara Falls a little greener.

For more information on LivClean and the offsetting projects the Winter Festival of Lights is participating in, please visit www.livclean.ca.  To learn more about Agrogreen, visit www.agrogreencanada.com and P & C Compostech at www.compostech.com.

Contact us to learn more about how Winter Festival of Lights is going Green!

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