Shop Donates Proceeds To Conservation Group

Santa Monica, California August 2, 2007 -- Effective immediately, the Earth Rising shop on CafePress is donating 30% of its profits to the Nature Conservancy. Carbon neutral and Verde designs have been spotted around the globe at environmental causes, such as Live Earth and the Green Apple Music fest. The Carbon Neutral shops were created to spread awareness of global warming issues through T-Shirts, coffee mugs, bumper stickers and other items. A percentage of sales from the Carbon Neutral earth rising shops is being donated to the Nature Conservancy. The Nature Conservancy has been chosen because they help preserve plants, animals and natural communities all over the world, each and every single day.

The Earth Rising Carbon Neutral shops know that research and awareness are the keys to getting a handle on environmental pollution, and it is their mission to help fund important charities that work in concert with the environment. Since 2005, Earth Rising Carbon Neutral shops have created designs and sold bumper stickers and T-Shirts raising awareness throughout the world. Visitors to the Earth Rising Carbon Neutral shop are supporting research, since a portion of the profits from each purchase goes towards the environment. Recently a driving force in "sustainable building" and "environmental building" contacted the Carbon Neutral shops to create a green building* design. "Now Green Building employees are greeted with our coffee mugs and mouse pads!", said Kay Solblanc, product manager for Earth Rising Carbon Neutral. More about the Carbon Neutral Earth Rising Shops: http://carbonneutral.2truth.com. Carbon neutral earth rising artists create their designs display them via Foster City, California based "CafePress", an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic.

Definitions

• Carbon neutral, or carbon neutrality, refers to the practice of balancing carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, wood, or other sources; with practices that remove or sequestor carbon from the atmosphere, and use of renewable energy that creates a similar amount of useful energy without releasing carbon, so that the net carbon emissions are zero.
• Green building is the practice of increasing the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use and harvest energy, water, and materials, and reducing building impacts on human health and the environment, through better design, construction, operation, maintenance, and removal -- the complete building life cycle.