The Carbon Neutral Way
How we do what we do
It’s not the cow, it’s the how
Measure
We obsessively measure - from field to fridge and beyond - the entire carbon footprint of our products.
Reduce
We partner with farmers to realize new emissions reduction projects on their farms that radically reduce the carbon intensity of milk.
Offset
What we can’t eliminate, we offset with verified carbon credits from U.S. dairy farmers that are turning cow poop into clean energy.
Measuring our footprint
Every product has a carbon footprint, including ours.
We obsessively measure the entire carbon footprint of our products — from field to fridge and beyond. Our chief science advisor Dr. Greg Thoma, a faculty member at Colorado State University, advises us in calculating each of Neutral’s product footprints. Dr. Thoma has dedicated the past 12 years to quantifying the carbon footprint of U.S. dairy, including a groundbreaking study of the emissions associated with consumption of a gallon of milk based on data from more than 500 American dairy farms.
What We Measure
Reducing our footprint
Our collective mission in our food production
We work with farmers to sponsor projects that profoundly reduce their overall footprint. These changes benefit local and global ecosystems by keeping methane and other pollutants out of the atmosphere. And because Neutral makes capital investments on farms, we’re helping farmers tackle projects they have been wanting to do—in some cases for years—but have not yet been able to because of money, time, and risk. Reduction opportunities include improved forage production and grazing management, nutrient and manure management, and conservation practices, such as reducing tillage or planting cover crops.
Learn more about some of our projects here.
Tannin-rich forage grasses planted in cow-grazing pastures are methane-busting and delicious.
This contraption is a Liquid and Solid Manure Separation system and it can actually generate energy and produce products for reuse or generate compost.
Offsetting what’s left
Finally, as our reduction efforts are a work in progress, we guarantee that every product is 100% carbon neutral by investing in carbon offsets from dairy projects across the country. Pioneering dairy farmers are turning cow manure into renewable energy right on the farm—and in doing so, are significantly reducing the amount of methane emissions along the way.
We know not all offsets are created equal. Neutral only acquires offsets from U.S. dairy farmers that are verified by Climate Action Reserve (CAR), American Carbon Registry, and VERRA. Verifying our offsets through accredited auditors ensures the projects we support are real, additional, permanent, verifiable, and enforceable. It also minimizes any risk of invalid creation or double counting of Climate Reserve Tons.
Our organic dairy products are also Carbon Neutral Certified by SCS Global Services, a leader in 3rd party verification for environmental and sustainability claims. That means our products have passed a stringent set of requirements to verify their carbon footprints and that we’ve either eliminated emissions through our on-farm projects or purchased the correct amount of quantified and verified carbon offsets to ensure there is no increase in greenhouse gas emissions as the result of making, selling, and consuming our products.
Certified Carbon Neutral
Our products are Carbon Neutral Certified by SCS Global Services, a leader in 3rd party verification for environmental and sustainability claims. That ensures there is no increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of making, selling, or consuming our milk.
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You can find us across the USA making the world a environmentally safer place.
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