Our Commitment to Quality
Our carbon offsets (greenhouse gas offsets) are sourced from the Weber County Landfill Gas Methane Recovery facility in Ogden, Utah.

Third Party Certification
Our greenhouse gas offsets are certified by SCS Engineers, an expert in Landfill Gas and are SCS Engineers is independent of drivegreener.com.

SCS Engineers will serve as third-party auditors who will verify that drivegreener.com, will:

1. Provide offsets from the appropriate renewable energy sources;
2. That the carbon offsets you are purchasing is actually the amount of carbon emissions prevented from release to atmosphere, and;
3. That the product will result in substantial environmental benefits;
4. Ensure that carbon offsets (or greenhouse gas offsets) represent those produced from a particular facility at a particular time and that they are not sold twice or in other words we do not sell more carbon offsets than we generate from our facilities.
5. The carbon offsets we sell are only sold once, to you.

The Carbon Offset Agreement
The Terms and Conditions for Simple Carbon Offset Retail Purchase are outlined below. This is an agreement for the purchase of Carbon offsets. Carbon offsets are sold by the ton. When we sell you carbon offsets, we will explicitly state in your purchase summary and certificate the actual number of tons of carbon dioxide offsets you have purchased. The environmental attributes associated with the conversion of methane into carbon dioxide represents a measure of the quantity of Greenhouse Gas prevented from entering the atmosphere. Offsets are created by measurable and verifiable net reductions of greenhouse gases. Because methane is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide for trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere, our landfill gas project in Ogden, Utah generates over 32,221 metric tons of CO2e offsets per year (depending upon plant operation. (A metric ton = 0.984 tons).

The purchase of our offsets allows an emission reduction achieved at our Weber County Landfill Gas project to be purchased by a business or individual in order to offset their carbon emissions. It allows us to recover the costs of better environmental performance and you the buyer to choose an alternative at a lower cost. As a result, your investment dollars can move towards the most environmentally-friendly, cost-effective greenhouse gas reduction opportunities available. Unlike most landfill gas energy projects, the gas collection system installation was voluntary and NOT mandated by law and the cost of our project is approximately double that of most landfill gas projects. The purchase of GHG Offsets supports the investment in the gas collection system and the conversion of a more potent greenhouse gas into a less potent gas, carbon dioxide.

Our Commitment to you
drivegreener.com agrees to deliver to you, carbon offsets from an endorsed, environmentally-preferred resource in the quantity and over the time period necessary to meet our obligations to you, the Customer, with the limitations provided in the following paragraph.

Our delivery of the carbon offsets is subject to uncertainties, including the availability of energy resources, the number and duration of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance operations, the reliability of the generating technologies, and other factors beyond the control of drivegreener.com. In the event that it is unable to meet its delivery obligations from a designated facility within the designated time period, drivegreener.com may reconcile its delivery obligations with carbon offsets produced from another endorsed, environmentally-preferred resource, at drivegreener.com’s option, by the end of the first quarter of the following calendar year.

drivegreener.com agrees to obtain and maintain the necessary documentation to substantiate its acquisition of offsets from each resource, including the description of the resource, the amount of carbon offsets produced, and the calendar year in which they were produced. This information will be made available to the Customer upon request.

drivegreener.com agrees that credit for the environmental attributes associated with carbon offsets will pass through to the customers who purchase the carbon offsets, and that drivegreener.com will not make any claims or reserve any rights with respect to the environmental attributes associated with the sale of drive greener carbon offsets to its customers.

drivegreener.com represents that it will perform due diligence for the carbon offsets that it acquires and sells to ensure that only the carbon offset credits generated by its projects are sold and sold only once, and that the electricity generated in association with the carbon offsets production is sold without any claim or assertion of rights by any other party with respect to any of the environmental attributes associated with the carbon offsets, except as otherwise provided by law. Furthermore, we will document the appropriate chain of custody as each amount of carbon offsets is passed intact and without modification from our supplier(s), through drivegreener.com, to you, our Customer.

The Customer’s Commitment
The Customer agrees to purchase our carbon offsets (greenhouse gas offsets) from drivegreener.com in accordance with these terms and conditions.

The Customer agrees that the Carbon offsets are being purchased and used for the purpose of offsetting or mitigating the environmental impacts of the customer’s automobile usage, and therefore agrees not to resell or otherwise transfer the carbon offsets or any portion thereof to any other party for any purpose.

The Customer understands that drivegreener.com will undertake to match its purchase and sale of carbon offsets within any contract period, but that the timing of drivegreener.com’s purchase of carbon offsets is subject to some uncertainties, including the availability and intermittent nature of the resources, the number and duration of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance operations, the reliability of the generating technologies, and other factors beyond our control.

Liability
In no event shall either party be liable to the other party for indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, including but not limited to the loss of revenues or profits, the cost of substitute services, the cost of purchased power, the loss of opportunity, the loss of goodwill, a loss of data, governmental sanctions or penalties or claims of third parties, whether such liabilities arise as a result of breach of contract, warranty, indemnity, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise; and drivegreener.com and the Customer hereby release each other from any such liabilities. This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Utah. Any dispute under this agreement shall be subject to mandatory arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association, with the arbitrator's decision binding on all parties.

Agreement to the Terms & Conditions
The Customer acknowledges that they have reviewed the terms and conditions set out above, and agrees to be bound by them, and is authorized to enter into this Agreement.

Our disclosure statement
Your purchase of drivegreener carbon offsets (or greenhouse gas offsets) is supporting the reduction of carbon emissions into our atmosphere. The burning of fossil fuels (primarily coal, oil and natural gas and the derivatives of oil, such as gasoline for cars and trucks is causing the chemical makeup of our atmosphere to change dramatically. The change in the atmosphere is already affecting the global climate. Automobiles are a big piece of the problem. When a gallon of gasoline is burned in your car, it combines with oxygen in the combustion process to produce 20 pounds of carbon emissions. The total amount of carbon emissions produced is therefore related to the amount of driving you do and how much fuel the vehicle burns to get you there: The lower the gasoline consumption, the lower the carbon emissions from your vehicle.

The purchase of our carbon offsets can displace the carbon emissions from your vehicle use. The purchase of carbon offsets is helping to develop alternative energy projects that don’t use fossil fuels and therefore do not contribute to global warming and therefore climate change.

Product Disclosure
Our renewable energy facility produces carbon offsets by converting a more potent greenhouse gas (methane or CH4) into a less potent greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide or CO2). The measurement of the ability to “trap” heat in the atmosphere, not unlike a “greenhouse” is defined on a scale with carbon dioxide as the basis. This ability is known as a gas’ “Global Warming Potential” (or GWP). The GWP of methane is 23 times greater than carbon dioxide. The carbon offsets we sell is the total amount of methane burned to produce electricity multiplied by 23 and then we subtract the amount of carbon dioxide we emit at the end. As a result, we are achieving a zero carbon emissions facility and only selling the net environmental benefits.

Our offsets help build a market for greenhouse gas offsets and reduce global climate change, and may have other environmental benefits such as reducing regional air pollution.

When our carbon offsets or greenhouse gas emissions reduction certificates (ERCs) are purchased, the ownership of the environmental benefits (primarily a net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions) measured in tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (or CO2e) are transferred to the purchaser. The amount of carbon emissions purchased will be explicitly stated on your purchase certificate and are measured in tons of carbon dioxide (or in the case of other greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide equivalents or CO2e) of emissions avoided.

The environmental benefits produced by the displacement of coal-generated electricity is sold separately as green electricity certificates.