Zerofootprint and National Quality Institute Unite to Help Companies Benchmark Their Carbon Emissions

Zerofootprint and National Quality Institute Unite to Help Companies Benchmark
Their Carbon Emissions
NQI/Zerofootprint Carbon Index Enables Organizations to Calculate Carbon
Emissions, Compare Results with Peers and Reduce Environmental Footprint

TORONTO, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Quality Institute (NQI), an
independent, not-for-profit, organization committed to advancing
organizational excellence across Canada, and Zerofootprint, a leading
developer of tools to measure and reduce the environmental footprint of
individuals and organizations, today announced that they have teamed up to
create the NQI/Zerofootprint Carbon Index, to provide NQI members with greater
insights about their carbon emissions through peer-based benchmarking.

"Benchmarking is a simple but powerful tool to help companies understand their
carbon footprint and where it can be reduced," said Ron Dembo, founder and CEO
at Zerofootprint. "Comparing your organization to others can also engage
employees and help drive the behavioral changes that will be critical to
reducing greenhouse gases. At Zerofootprint we are committed to helping create
standards and best practices, and making it easier for businesses to
participate in the battle against climate change. We are excited to work with
NQI in spearheading these efforts for its membership."

New regulations, investor demands, and customer concern are driving companies
to make green initiatives and carbon management top priorities. As the
regulatory landscape evolves and industry standards emerge, more and more
organizations are electing to participate in voluntary disclosure projects.

"We believe that this unique NQI/Zerofootprint Carbon Index, will form an
important part of the NQI Environmental Sustainability Strategy," said Allan
Ebedes, president and CEO of the National Quality Institute. "It will generate
a valuable database for organizational benchmarking and will become an
important tool for continuous improvement. Measurements and trend data are key
elements in satisfying the Environmental Sustainability Criteria embodied in
the NQI Progressive Excellence Program."

The NQI/Zerofootprint Carbon Index captures information from NQI members about
common business activities, and calculates total carbon output, carbon per
square meter and carbon per employee. Additional analysis provides rankings
across key metrics, allowing NQI members to anonymously evaluate where they
rank among similar NQI members.

For more information, or to participate in the project, please visit the NQI
website at http://www.nqi.ca.

About National Quality Institute
Founded in 1992 by Industry Canada, the National Quality Institute is an
independent, not-for-profit, organization that is committed to advancing
organizational excellence across Canada. A Board of Governors comprised of
leaders from the private sector, public sector, health care, and the
not-for-profit sector, governs NQI. Since its inception, the National Quality
Institute has helped thousands of Canadian organizations across many sectors.
As Canada's national authority on Quality and Healthy Workplace® practices,
the National Quality Institute has created a uniquely Canadian model,
providing measurable standards for all Canadian organizations. For more
information, visit http://www.nqi.ca.

About Zerofootprint
Zerofootprint is a socially responsible enterprise whose mission is to apply
technology, design, and risk management to the massive reduction of our
environmental footprint. Zerofootprint operates both in the for-profit and
charitable domains through two entities, Zerofootprint Software and
Zerofootprint Foundation, using shared technology.
http://www.zerofootprint.net.

SOURCE Zerofootprint

Heidi Rosenberg of Nadel Phelan, Inc., +1-831-440-2405, heidi@nadelphelan.com,
for Zerofootprint