Stonyfield views its decision to aggressively pursue a climate change target as a smart business decision. Surveys show that the company's environmental performance is of key importance to its customers. Also, Stonyfield's climate change strategy has been very cost-effective, costing less than a third of the dollar savings from lighting retrofits alone at its manufacturing facility. From Stonyfield's perspective, its overall objective of mitigating its environmental footprint has been a great investment. Stonyfield's CO₂ mitigation journey is extensively described in Stonyfield's Carbon Cookbook, available at Stonyfield's website.

Stonyfield Farm talks about working with TC+ES:

"At Stonyfield Farm Yogurt, we believe all businesses, large and small, have a responsibility to contribute to a sustainable society and to serve as a model of environmental and social responsibility. After considerable internal thought on what sustainability might look like for our company, we chose to offset a portion of our onsite CO₂ emissions because these emissions can easily be quantified. We sought out Trexler and Associates, Inc. [former name of TC+ES] to help us mitigate our emissions, to advise us on how Stonyfield could best play a leadership role in this area, and to work with us to encourage other businesses and individuals to mitigate their CO₂ emissions. While Stonyfield's greenhouse gas emissions obviously are small, we believe that the collective impact of greenhouse gas abatement by a number of small- to medium-size firms could be significant. We looked to TAA because we found that TAA is in an excellent position to help small- and medium-sized companies become "CO₂ neutral" and because we have learned that TAA can help us maximize the benefits of taking a leadership role in the climate change arena. We chose to work with TAA over several other companies and nonprofits, specifically because TAA is an international leader in the climate change mitigation arena."

Ms. Nancy Hirshberg, Director of Natural Resources, Stonyfield Farm, Inc.