When customers purchase a Green Mountain Energy Green Ticket online, a portion of the costs will automatically go to purchase renewable energy credits. When you buy your Telluride ticket, check the “Offset Your Carbon Impact Now” option and Green Mountain will purchase 300 kWhs of renewable power on your behalf. 

We are setting a goal this year to sell 2,000 green tickets. Reaching this goal will have the same positive environmental impact as not driving a car almost 1 million miles, recycling over 300,000 lbs of newspaper, or planting over 40,000 trees. 

Individually, each green ticket offsets the equivalent of 339 pounds of CO2 avoided. That’s like not driving your car 433 miles, recycling 160 pounds of newspaper, or planting 24 trees. 

At the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, we understand that there is an emissions footprint associated with our business operations. That is why we are partnering with Green Mountain Energy Company, for the 3rd year in a row, to take a leadership role in calculating and offsetting 100% of the total calculated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with the 2009 Telluride Blues and Brews Festival. This continued commitment to the environment offsets the CO2 emissions created by last year’s festival’s on-site generators, electricity usage, and staff travel and festival vehicles. 

To neutralize these emissions we purchased Green Mountain Energy® Offsets sourced from Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) certified methane capture projects across the United States. This year we will be offsetting 60 metric tons of CO2 emissions, a harmful gas that is the leading cause of global warming. To put this in perspective, this is like not driving your car almost 120,000 miles or the annual carbon absorption of about 200 trees. 

About Green Mountain Energy 

Austin, Texas-based Green Mountain is the nation’s leading retail provider of cleaner energy and carbon offset solutions. The company began in 1997 with a simple idea: “to change the way power is made”. The company entered the renewable electricity market with the belief that if given a choice, consumers will choose cleaner electricity products using renewable sources such as wind, solar, water, geothermal, and biomass, over electricity made from polluting fossil fuels. These cleaner energy sources help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the air. Since 1999, Green Mountain customers have collectively helped avoid over 9.8 billion lbs. of carbon dioxide emissions and have been responsible for helping to deliver more than six billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy into the market. Additionally, Green Mountain’s customers have helped spur the development of 40 new wind and solar facilities across the nation, which are producing pollution-free power. For more information, visit www.greenmountain.com.