Interested in visiting wineries without leaving a big footprint of the environmentally unfriendly type?
Then pick up a copy of the GrassRoutes guide book devoted to
Northern California Wine Country. The sub-title: "Green Road Trips."
Never heard of GrassRoutes? Here's some descriptive verbiage from its...
Attendance was high at last summer's Water Conservation Field Day, which was held in Sonoma County's Alexander Valley.
Among the 200 attendees were vineyard owners, irrigation
specialists and conservation groups such as the National Fisheries
Service.
Water is a precious commodity in California, even for winegrape growers who don't like to see their vineyards receive...
Benziger Family Winery has promoted winemaker Rodrigo Soto to Vice
President of Winemaking, and in his new role, Soto will supervise the
winegrowing program for the certified sustainable Benziger Family
wines, as well as the vineyard designate program.
He will also be managing the certified organic and certified Biodynamic Signaterra and de Coelo winemaking programs.
The Chilean-born Soto joined Benziger as Director of Winemaking in
2006. He brings extensive international winegrowing experience with
Biodynamic and organic...
Sonoma County's
Ferrari-Carano winery has long practiced sustainable farming techniques to help protect the land.
Don and Rhonda Carano realized that to achieve their goal of
producing memorable wines of outstanding quality, they needed to start
in the vineyards and not focus solely on the winemaking. Inspired to
meet their present goals while preserving the land for...
Parducci Wine Cellars in Ukiah, Calif., received the 2009
Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award - California's
highest environmental honor - at a reception following the Governor's
Global Climate Summit 2 in Los Angeles.
The winery was singled out for Enhanced Leadership, a category
reserved for previous GEELA winners that continue to expand their
environmental commitment. In 2008, Parducci was honored for combating
climate change.
Parducci sales and marketing coordinator Kelly Lentz accepted the award on behalf of Parducci partners...
Tinhorn Creek Vineyards has become Canada's first carbon-neutral
winery, following a trail blazed by New Zealand's
Grove Mill Winery in
September 2006 and, more recently, California's
Parducci Winery.
Being carbon neutral typically requires organizations to reduce
emissions of the gases associated with global warming, and offset
remaining emissions through...
On Dec. 19, Sonoma Valley docent Bill Myers will lead up to 50
people on a fun, casual and up-close hike through the 1,850-acre
volcanic and vertical
Kunde Family Estate in Kenwood, Calif.
This is a great opportunity to see sustainable winegrowing
practices at work while taking in some of wine country's most
spectacular scenery.
Myers' tours wind through the estate's distinct eco-systems, each one uniquely contributing to the process of...
Through the use of the Ecoglass bottle, Chile's
Vina Ventisquero
continues to strengthen its efforts to promote ecological
responsibility and minimize the effect of its operations on the
environment.
As part of its corporate mission, Vina Ventisquero engages in
ongoing efforts to raise ecological consciousness as the company
evolves into a truly eco-friendly winery. Its latest initiative
involves adopting...
Gil Friend, President and CEO of
Natural Logic Inc., will deliver
the 2009 keynote address today at the
Green Wine Summit luncheon in
Santa Rosa, California.
Friend is the author of "The Truth About Green Business,"
published by Financial Times Press, which
Worldchanging.com has called
"simply the best green business book on the market."
"We are honored to have Gil deliver our keynote," said Lesley
Berglund, Co-Chair of GWS. "As a leading thinker on sustainability, Gil
brings decades of experience in systems ecology and...
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The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance has released a
report funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation revealing
that 101 winegrowers surveyed throughout California have a remarkably
high level of adoption of sustainable vineyard management practices.
About 60 percent of the 101 surveyed winegrowers reported using 10
or more of the 16 environmentally friendly farming practices included
in the study. The six most-used practices, adopted by 80 percent or...
