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| February 8, 2010 |
Wines & Vines, California Wineries Get Certified |
| January 15, 2010 |
Suite 101, California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance: Third-Party Certification Program Launched |
| January 14, 2010 |
Decanter, First California-wide sustainability certification programme launched |
| January 13, 2010 |
Press Democrat, Wine industry sets standards for sustainability |
| January 13, 2010 |
Wine Business, California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance Announces New Certification Program for Wineries and Vineyards |
| January 13, 2010 |
Associated Press, Red, white or green? Calif. wine choices expand |
| January 13, 2010 |
Wine Spectator, California Wine Industry Establishes New Green Certification
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| October 8, 2009 |
Planetshifter.com, An Interview About the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program |
| May 28, 2009 |
The following letter was sent to the National Geographic Editor in response to the May 2009 article on the "Toll of Wine."
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| August 27, 2008 |
San Francisco Chronicle, "Winemakers cultivate earth-friendly practices, from ground to glass" |
| June 2, 2008 |
Wines and Vines, "Sustainability Goes to Market: Two new tools lead consumers and merchants to greener wines" |
| April 18, 2008 |
San Francisco Chronicle, "Bugging out: Beyond pesticides - vintners who see insects as vineyard helpers" |
| January 21, 2008 |
North Bay Business Journal, "Wine industry moves aggressively on carbon footprint: Wineries, trade groups developing protocols to reduce gas emmissions" |
| December 11, 2007 |
Wines & Vines, "Sonoma Growers Appeal to Regulators" |
| October 10, 2007 |
Wines and Vines, "Industry Group Wins Federal Grants" |
| July 13, 2007 |
Capital Press Agricultural News, "More Growers, Vintners Warming to Solar" |
| May 15, 2007 |
Wine Business Monthly, "A Case Study in Sustainable Wine Production" |
| April 1, 2007 |
Practical Winery and Vineyard, "Improving Air Quality" |
| February 1, 2007 |
Practical Winery and Vineyard, "2006 Progress Report" |
| August 31, 2006 |
SacBee article "Stewards of Wine Land" with Wine Institute's former Chairman Paul Dolan and SWP **The article link is no longer active, however, you can attempt to retrieve the article from the publication's archives. |
| June 17, 2006 |
Modesto Bee "Growers learn to sustain soil". **The article link is no longer active, however, you can attempt to retrieve the article from the publication's archives. |
| April 25, 2005 |
The Press Democrat "Taking sustainable agriculture to the next level: Fetzer executive to lead grape growers' alliance". **The article link is no longer active, however, you can attempt to retrieve the article from the publication's archives. |
| October 11, 2004 |
Green Biz.com "Wine Industry Uncorks First Sustainability Report". |

The following letter was sent to the National Geographic Editor in response to the May 2009 article on the "Toll of Wine."
May 28, 2009 Back to Top
I am writing in response to the menacing title and erroneous graphic portraying the "Toll of Wine" in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic. This graphic depicts the carbon intensity of shipping wine from various global wine regions to key U.S. cities and bases its data on a seriously flawed, two-year-old working paper that is filled with untested assumptions, has not been peer reviewed, and does not accurately reflect the complexities of greenhouse gas emissions in the wine sector. Research on a science-based Life Cycle Analysis for wine is underway but this graphic, as well as the paper on which it is based, misleads consumers into believing that foreign imports are somehow more environmentally-friendly than California wines.
This distortion of fact is particularly unfortunate given the ground-breaking work by California wineries and vineyards to tackle the issue of GHG emissions by working to improve air quality and energy efficiency, along with other sustainable winegrowing practices from ground to bottle, through the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program (http://www.sustainablewinegrowing.org/). This statewide program guides California''s wineries and winegrape growers to adopt an integrated system for their operations based on tested "best practices" in alternative energy, packaging, transportation, production and farming practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints in the state with the most stringent environmental laws in the country.
California vintners and growers are taking their carbon footprint seriously and have partnered with the international wine community to create an International Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Accounting Tool (www.wineinstitute.org/ghgprotocol). In addition, we are working with scientists to better understand the carbon balance of wineries and vineyards, including how vines, soil and broader vineyard ecosystems may benefit the environment by sequestering carbon. For instance, we worked with leading agriculture and climate scientists at UC Davis on a comprehensive review of state of the science in 2008 (visit http://www.sustainablewinegrowing.org/publications.php).
We''re confident that U.S. consumers can add "environmental track record" to many other reasons for choosing California wines, including quality, diversity, value, and significant contributions to local, state, and federal economies through jobs, taxes, charitable donations and tourism.
Sincerely,
Allison Jordan Executive Director California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance
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