Now serving carbon-neutral milk
“This change is costing us just a little bit more but making a huge difference.”
Available in coffee drinks and pastry kitchens at all locations
What if your milk could fight climate change?
Now it does, with the arrival of Neutral and its Northwest-produced climate-neutral dairy products. By monitoring and reducing carbon emissions on dairies as well as purchasing carbon credits, Neutral is pushing low-carbon solutions in dairy farming.
We use their 100% carbon-neutral milk and cream at all Grand Central Bakery locations, for glazes and icings and in coffee drinks.
“Neutral lives up to our standards of responsibly sourced ingredients, and it’s a big step in the right direction for GCB in terms of meeting our environmental impact goals,” says Gina Langley, Grand Central Bakery’s Retail Product Manager.
Dairy products make up 10% of unwanted greenhouse gas emissions, according to some sources.
How does Neutral produce climate-friendly carbon-neutral milk?
They source milk from family farms right here in the Northwest and rigorously monitor and measure carbon emissions;
They sponsor new work to help lower carbon emissions at those dairy farms. Last fall, for instance, Neutral began work with family-owned dairies in Oregon to design, install, and operate new manure management solutions at no cost to their farmers.
They offset any remaining carbon emissions with the purchase of carbon credits.
To calculate carbon emissions, Neutral measures everything from feed and the fertilizer and energy used to produce it, to methane emissions from the livestock, to energy needed to run the farm and process and refrigerate the milk, to fuel burned by the delivery trucks.
Through the use of carbon offsets, they invest in dairy projects across the country, including Rainier Farm Biogas Project in Enumclaw, where three family dairies are turning cow manure into renewable energy and protecting two vulnerable watersheds. The anaerobic digester will produce 1 megawatt of electricity and supply farmers with animal bedding and fertilizer. All carbon offsets purchased by Neutral are verified by accredited auditors.
Neutral buys carbon credits with projects like Rainier Farm Biogas in Enumclaw.