The Big Green Bus :: Sponsors

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Flagship
	Waste Management--Captain Flagship Waste Management, Inc. is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. The company is strongly committed to a foundation of financial strength, operating excellence and superior customer service. www.wm.com
	Newman's Own Newman’s Own ®, Inc. ─ founded by Paul Newman and his buddy A. E. Hotchner in 1982 ─ is a successful and growing premium food business. Newman’s Own offers more than 100 varieties of delicious all-natural food and beverage products, which include salad dressings, pasta sauces, salsa, popcorn, lemonade, and thin & crispy frozen pizza. Based in Westport, CT, the charitable mission of Newman’s Own®, Inc. was expressed by Paul in the Company motto: “Shameless exploitation in pursuit of the Common Good.” Newman’s Own Foundation continues Paul Newman’s commitment to donate all profits to charity. More than $265 million has been given to thousands of charities since 1982. Visit www.newmansown.com for the nearest retailer/s that carry Newman’s Own products and for recipe suggestions using Newman’s Own®, Inc. products. Learn more about our mission at www.newmansownfoundation.org.
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	Changents Changents is an entertainment-driven Internet destination that connects innovators of social and environmental change - Change Agents - with a global network of people who want to help them. Change Agents and members of its community around the world share their amazing stories and utilize online tools to mobilize help from friends everywhere. Changents was founded in 2007 by Alex Hofmann and Deron Triff, social entrepreneurs with backgrounds in entertainment and digital media, who set out to engage a digitally-connected, socially-conscious generation on its own terms. Back a Change Agent at www.changents.com.
	Rosedale Products Leaders in the alternative fuel movement, Rosedale filters has been our most prominent supporter. Their top-of-the-line Model 8 Platinum Filtration System allows The Big Green Bus to quickly and easily gather Waste Vegetable Oil and convert it to fuel that is clean enough to eat (for a bus). We would like to thank Rosedale for their tremendous support in the renewable resource revolution and for helping this bus eat its veggies. www.rosedaleproducts.com
	SunPower SunPower designs, manufactures and delivers the highest efficiency solar electric technology worldwide. Based on more than 20 years of innovation, we deliver proven solar performance to residential, commercial, and utility-scale power plant customers. Our high-efficiency solar cells, panels and systems deliver significantly more energy per unit area than competing systems. Our customers benefit from lower electric bills, meaningful financial returns and maximum carbon emissions savings. At SunPower, we see a future where solar power is an essential component of the global energy mix. We work every day to continuously set new standards for solar performance, value, appearance and our customers' experience. We will compete with retail electric rates by reducing system cost by 50% by 2012. www.sunpowercorp.com
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	EcoDirect EcoDirect Inc is committed to empowering individuals, communities and businesses with products that will create a clean, energy efficient presence and a sustainable future that will enhance the lives of generations to come. EcoDirect believes that by reducing energy consumption and generating clean, efficiently distributed, renewable energy we can achieve that goal. The EcoDirect website was established and will continually be developed as an instrument to locate an effective, affordable solution for your eco-friendly product purchases. Furthermore, we feel an obligation to provide the most seamless, productive online-shopping experience available. In closing, EcoDirect is dedicated to building relationships with not only customers but all entities within the eco-friendly industry in an effort to make Earth the healthiest, most energy efficient planet in the universe. www.ecodirect.com
	EcoTimber Since 1992, EcoTimber has been the leading supplier of high quality wood products from environmentally sound sources. They offer a beautiful selection of hardwood flooring from FSC-certified well-managed forests, fast-growing Bamboo flooring, and reclaimed flooring. Offering products made with finishes and adhesives that won't off-gas harmful chemicals, EcoTimber is the healthy choice for your home and the planet. This summer, the Big Green Bus will be featuring a bamboo floor from EcoTimber. www.ecotimber.com
	IceStone IceStone durable surfaces are made from 100% recycled glass and concrete to make a highly durable concrete surface. IceStone surfaces are produced by an environmentally friendly manufacturing process in their daylit factory in Brooklyn, New York. Their goal is to be the top choice for green, sustainable countertops by producing beautiful materials that rival the strength of quarried stone, yet actively reduce the waste stream by redirecting glass from the landfills into their product. This summer, the Big Green Bus will be featuring IceStone countertops. www.icestone.biz
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	Clif Bar At Clif Bar & Company, we understand that our health depends on the planet's wellbeing. That's why we're working to reduce our environmental impact in everything we do, from the field to the final product. Our journey began in 2001 with sourcing organic ingredients and we have since expanded our program to include recycled materials for packaging, biodiesel in our company fleet, and a growing climate action program that includes incentives for employees and the development of new wind farms to reduce our carbon footprint. We continue to learn from and share the journey with others. Here are a few examples of our progress: 70% of all ingredients are now organic, 13,000 trees planted with American Forests, 3 wind turbines up and running thanks to our partnership with NativeEnergy, and B100 biodiesel fuel is now used for 20,000 miles of inter-company shipping. www.clifbar.com
	Home Depot Home Depot's Eco Options brand makes it easy to identify products that make a difference, once choice at a time. Every product with the Eco Options label has less of an impact on the environment than competing products. Specifically Eco Options products offer one or more of the following benefits: Sustainable Forestry, Energy Efficient, Healthy Home, Clean Air and Water Conservation. www.homedepot.com
	act2GreenSmart Shoreline has been making bags since 1995. In 2007, the Company’s owners committed to only making bags from green materials by the end of 2008. Bottles 2 Bags represents the first step in this transition. The fabrics in the Bottles 2 Bags items are made from 100% recycled water and soda bottles (PET #1). By utilizing a recycled resource, these fabrics use less energy to be manufactured as well as keeping bottles out of landfills. Each Bottles 2 Bags product has an internal label that identifies the number of bottles that were recycled to create the bag and the energy saved in production. The company website www.act2greensmart.com explains the production method and provides a GreenSmart Glossary to enhance anyone’s understanding of green.