Media Advisory - TDSB negotiates first-ever sale of carbon credits

TORONTO, June 7 /CNW/ - The Toronto District School Board has completed one of the largest transactions of its kind - the Board's first - to sell carbon credits to the Greening Canada Fund, created by the Toronto City Summit Alliance's Greening Greater Toronto initiative, and managed by Green Power Action Inc.

Join us Wednesday morning to find out:

    
    -   How this win-win arrangement permits TDSB to invest an incremental
        $1.75 million in projects to help it meet its "Go Green - Climate
        Change Action Plan" goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions

    -   How this arrangement also permits forward-looking Canadian
        corporations to meet their own carbon-reduction goals, while
        advancing their desire to support good community initiatives

    Details:

    WHEN:        Wednesday, June 9
                 11:00 a.m. (EDT)

    WHERE:       Hillcrest Community School
                 44 Hilton Ave., Toronto
                 (1 block north of Davenport, off Bathurst)

    WHO:         Bruce Davis
                 Chair & Trustee Ward 3
                 Toronto District School Board

                 Gerry Rocchi
                 Chief Executive Officer
                 Green Power Action Inc.

    WHAT:        Mr. Davis and Mr. Rocchi will outline the terms of the
                 arrangement and respond to questions, after which media will
                 be provided a short tour of the school to see the Board's
                 climate change plan in action
    

For further information: Brian Smith (Green Power Action Inc.), Tel. [phone]; Bob Poldon (TDSB), Tel. [phone]