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Make Your Event Carbon Neutral With Direct Energy Business' Event Greening Program; Renewable Energy Certificate and Carbon Offset Offering to Green Events.(Conference news)

Article from: Canadian Corporate News Article date: March 23, 2009

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Mar 23, 2009 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Editors Note: There is a photo and a video associated with this Press Release.

Direct Energy Business is launching an Event Greening Program, an easy, cost-effective program which will enable event planners, conference and meeting organizers in Alberta and Ontario to offset the environmental impact of the energy usage at their events by making them carbon neutral.

The Event Greening Program allows event planners and conference organizers to make the energy used at ...

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