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Planktos is a San Francisco Bay Area (Foster City) company that is positioned to do more to fight global warming and climate change than any other company in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company is prepared to take their ship, the Weatherbird, out to sea and "seed" the ocean to produce life-giving plankton that will pull CO2 from the atmosphere and help build a replenished, healthy ocean.

Planktos uses a process called iron replenishment to restore declining plankton growth in the open seas. They revive plankton populations by adding iron dust to the ocean. Iron is a critical micronutrient needed by plankton for photosynthesis. It normally reaches the oceans in wind-borne iron-rich dust from arid lands, but that dust supply has fallen 30% over the past 30 years, resulting in a 10% decline in plankton populations since the late 1970s. Extensive research projects have shown that adding tiny amounts of iron can powerfully regenerate plankton growth. Stimulating plankton blooms not only captures global warming CO2, but also restores ocean ecosystems, as plankton is the base of the food chain.

Planktos is a for-profit, publicly traded company dedicated to ecosystem restoration, climate change mitigation, and the creation of high-volume, low-cost carbon offsets for individuals and businesses. If you're looking for a forward-looking, forward-moving investment vehicle that is centrally involved in the rush to tackle climate change - Planktos may be your answer.

In June 2007, Alex Schmidt, speaking on American Public radio's Marketplace, said: "There are business opportunities aplenty as the planet gets warmer. While Congress tries to figure out how to pass some kind of climate change law, entrepreneurs are cashing in...In Fort Lauderdale, the Weather Bird II is preparing to depart. Planktos is making a big bet that both business and government will sign up to an offset trading scheme. It's hoping that out on the ocean, it'll find a way to turn green into gold."

As Jim Jubak, MSN Money Market editor said: "You should own global-warming stocks... At worst, you'll make a profit. At best, you'll make a profit and help save the world. That sound OK to you?"

To learn more visit the Planktos web site.

Also browse through the following important carbon reference links:

Carbon Science The Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The Climate Impacts LINK Project: Pioneering Climate Data Provision Ocean Carbon Sequestration Abstracts, Office of Science, US Department of Energy Ocean Biogeochemical Processes Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Vital Climate Change Graphics by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Carbon Policy United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Future International Action on Climate Change Network UNCTAD/Earth Council Institute's Carbon Market Programme CERES: Investors and Environmentalists for Sustainable Prosperity Carbon Trading The European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) The European Climate Exchange - Real players, real action, real prices The Chicago Climate Exchange Carbon Finance Online: premier carbon trading news site www.co2e.com: "Global Carbon Trading Hub" Pricing Carbon Overview from the European Climate Exchange 500PPM: "Outsourcing partner for compliance management in Carbon Trading" Carbon Articles "The Geritol Effect - Adding trace quantities of iron makes ocean 'deserts' bloom - Can it slow global warming?" USC News World Rainforest Movement: Causes of Deforestation Value at Risk: Climate Change and the Future of Governance (.pdf file) Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Making the Connection (.pdf file)

Planktos Contact List:

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Russ George, CEO


Michael Chinn, CFO



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Note: No future-looking plans are going to be without critics. I received a letter from Shasha Alexander of the Society for Ecological Restoration International. She doubts the claims made by Planktos and calls attention to a paper published by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science. The paper may be read here.

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