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Biodynamic Farming:

• New Chapterís ìBiodynamic Luna Nueva ginger and turmeric Farmî is a model for agriculture which takes full advantage of the complex relationship between farmer, soil, plants, animals, sun, moon and tides. 
• Biodynamic farming increases the farmís biodiversity and protects the natural environment. It recognizes the farm as a closed, self-nourishing system, often using livestock (oxen) to work the earth instead of machinery avoiding the pollutants created by tractors and other farm equipment while goats and pigs happily clear rested fields for planting.
• This 200 acre Costa Rican Rainforest Farm has also achieved Demeter certification ñ the highest level of organic farming in the world and a true testament to our organic mission.
• New Chapter purchased Luna Nueva in 1994, when most commercial ginger was heavily sprayed and fumigated. They began growing blue-ring ginger that to explodes with flavor and phytonutrients. 
• Since then, Luna has evolved to take on an even deeper meaning.  It now has an eco-lodge that teaches visitors about environmental stewardship, sustainable agriculture and community development.  The lodge also hosts conferences on topics like permaculture and ethnobotany and offers field study opportunities through Earth University. 

Sustainable Sourcing:

• New Chapter travels the globe searching for suppliers to partner with that share their commitment to sustainable sourcing. 
• They require their suppliers to report on conditions in the field on an annual basis and they strategically choose farms to visit to ensure compliance and full transparency.
• The Company sources their raw materials in a way that ensures the ability of future generations to benefit from the bounty of these natural resources. Protection is also given to the local people for use of their own native assets. Favor is given to organically grown or wild crafted materials.
• They believe that a product intended to heal must be a healing force for every member of the supply chain. 
• Throughout their supply chain, from Vermont to India, they engage with partnerís whose workers are treated with respect and provided with working conditions that are safe, healthy and balanced.  
• Additionally, they promote equal rights, access to suitable housing, food, education, and health care, as well as freedom of expression, movement, association, and sufficient time for rest and leisure.

Environmental Integrity

• New Chapter uses 100% post-consumer recycled stocks for their product boxes, marketing materials and display units.  And they use 100% recycled corrugated shipping boxes within a closed loop system, which means the corrugate they recycle is looped back to them for reuse again and again.   
• They also use glass bottles for most of their supplements, one of the most efficiently recycled materials on earth and the healthiest choice for consumers.
• As of 2011, they currently compost, recycle or reuse more than 85% of the waste we produce.  Theyíve also contracted with a local farm that takes their compostable waste for use in their own organic compost.
• New Chapterís website runs on 100% solar power. They also utilize high efficiency, full-spectrum lighting throughout their headquarters and motion sensor lighting in their rest rooms.
• In 2009, New Chapter performed a baseline carbon inventory and assessment ñ an important step toward understanding our carbon and energy impact. They are comparing this baseline analysis year-by-year to help measure their performance, meet reduction goals and report annual achievements.

Philanthropy: New Chapter has partnered with the following organizations because their either Focus on human health, act as environmental stewards, work to further the accessibility and awareness of organic food, farming and traditional herbal medicine or contribute to community life in the Brattleboro, Vermont area - their hometown.  

Sacred Seeds Sanctuaries: (http://fincalunanuevalodge.com/sacred-seeds-sanctuary.html)

• In 2005, New Chapter created Sacred Seeds, a global initiative to save endangered plants and healing knowledge at their Costa Rican farm, Luna Nueva.
• It began as a single sanctuary for medicinal plants that were vulnerable to the loss of habitat, inappropriate harvesting, or climate change. 
• They worked with indigenous communities, a Costa Rican ethnobotanist, and student interns to maintain this sanctuary. 
• Their hope was to promote awareness of critical plant conservation, preserve biodiversity, and reconnect indigenous communities to their healing heritage through the protection of these culturally and scientifically significant plant species.
• Today they have 12 foundational Sacred Seed Gardens around the globe, working with the Missouri Botanical Gardens William L. Brown Center, their goal is to have a Sacred Seed sanctuaries in ecosystems throughout the world.  

Monteverde Conservation League US, Inc.: (www.mclus.org)

• This organization has preserved 54,000+ acres of what is now the largest private reserve in Costa Rica.
• New Chapter has partnered with them and created an important extraordinarily beautiful and biologically significant private wildlife reserve corridor for migrating species and connecting the Childrenís Eternal Rainforest with the Luna Nueva rainforest. 

Bumi Sehat: (www.bumisehatbali.org  or (www.amillionmothers.org) 

• In 2006, after traveling to Bali and witnessing the rampant malnutrition, Katherine Bramhall, a midwife from Barre, Vt., approached New Chapter for a product donation to help the malnourished pregnant women there.  
• New Chapter has committed to fulfilling the clinicsí supplement needs with New Chapterís Perfect Prenatal multi-vitamins.  

Nourish America (www.nourishamerica.org)

• New Chapter donates a steady flow of products to this cause. Their products have aided New York City homeless, Louisiana and Texas hurricane victims, American Indian reservation residents in South Dakota and many, many more. 

BEEC: (www.beec.org)  

• New Chapter has been a long-time sponsor of the Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center (BEEC):  A member-based, nonprofit organization founded to sustain an ecologically informed citizenry through education and action in order to enhance the vitality of southern Vermontís bioregion.

The Green Wave Program:  (www.greenwave.cbd.int)

• The Green Wave is an international project to educate children about biodiversity and to inspire the planting of native trees across the globe. 
• Every year, people all around the world celebrate biodiversity on whatís called the International Day for Biodiversity. 
• The Green Wave is an effort focused on working with schools to educate on the need for biological preservation.
• This year (2010) New Chapter participated in The Green Wave Program to direct their educational outreach to local communities and schools.
• They (along with Seven Vermont food Co-Ops) ran a 6 week campaign to raise money for trees to be planted at a local schools. Every purchase of a New Chapter product corresponded to one leaf. 20 leaves bought one tree to be planted at a partnering school. The trees were then donated to the partnering school and planted by students!
• Plans are already in place to take this program to a national level, working with larger retail chains as well as the national Green Wave Campaign in areas around the world.

Kindle Farm: (www.kindlefarm.org)

• Kindle Farm uses alternative educational approaches for boys and young men who do not succeed in the traditional classroom structure inherent in the vast majority of public and private educational settings due to trauma or disruption in their lives. 
• Their holistic approach to learning deeply connects with New Chapterís philosophy of whole healing. 
• Students are welcomed to learn through experience. Horticulture, forestry, bike maintenance, mechanics, carpentry, and culinary arts fill out a studentís day. 
• Their organic farms provide the space for vegetable and market garden, a greenhouse, and extensive forested land for creating mountain bike trails and studying aspects of plant and animal life.  
• While learning about garden planning, seeding, transplanting, watering, harvesting, and cover cropping, students are also learning about teamwork, problem solving, dependability, goal setting, and cooperation.