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One of the central beliefs of the Parducci Winery in California is their wish to preserve the environment in which they grow their grapes and produce their wine.  In the spring of 2007 the Parducci Winery because the first winery in the USA to gain carbon neutral status.

To achieve this Parducci Winery installed a solar powered system (with just under 10,000 square ft of solar panels), upgraded to energy efficient technologies (which reduced 9% of their 2006 annual energy use in 2007), converted farm equipment to run on bio-diesel (which produces less than half the CO2 emissions of diesel and no sulfur or aromatics), used earth-friendly packaging and promoted a variety of reduce-reuse programs that includes on-site vineyard composting, water conservation and recycling projects.  Parducci also purchased carbon credits, thus offsetting emissions through financial investment in carbon-reducing projects such as wind power, methane capture and forest conservation.

To find out more about the Parducci Winery please visit their website.

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