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DTN/The Progressive Farmer Chooses ClimateSuite for Carbon Credit Management Offering

DTN/The Progressive Farmer partners with TeraVista Systems to offer customers a more efficient way to enroll, manage and profit from agriculture-based carbon credits

November 20, 2009 – Telvent (NASDAQ: TLVT), the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, announced today its partnership with TeraVista Systems to license the ClimateSuite™ enterprise platform. The partnership allows farmers participating in the carbon economy a simple online solution to manage emerging carbon offsets and increase profitability. The online tool, available to DTN/The Progressive Farmer subscribers in early 2010, will eliminate complex work associated with managing carbon offsets by automating the enrollment, verification, registration and aggregation process, and facilitate interaction with carbon credit exchanges.

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First Remote Sensing Verifier Approved by Chicago Climate Exchange for Agriculture Soil Carbon Offsets

ST. LOUIS, July 1, 2009 - TeraVista Systems, announced this week that the company’s ClimateVerifyTM technology platform has been approved as a verification provider by the Chicago Climate Exchange® (CCX). The Company has been working with the CCX Offset Committee for the past year in developing a new CCX Carbon Sequestration Remote Sensing Verification Protocol for Agricultural Soil Practices. This protocol was approved in February, 2009, and TeraVista was approved as the first verifier for this protocol in May, 2009.

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FCStone Carbon Partners with ClimateSuite on Carbon Credit Management Platform

ST. LOUIS, November 18, 2008 - FCStone Carbon, LLC has signed an agreement to license the ClimateSuite™ enterprise platform from TeraVista Systems, LLC. ClimateSuite is an on-demand back office system that manages emerging carbon offsets by automating the enrollment, verification, registration and aggregation workflow, as well as interaction with exchanges.

“Utilizing the ClimateSuite application will not only assist in verification and automation of carbon credits, but will also reduce costs of managing and registering carbon credits,” said FCStone Carbon President Mike Knobbe. “Additionally, the platform will add value and revenue to our large grain elevator network and producers through streamlining our services at a localized level.” (more…)

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Chris Carl Named Verification Sub-Committee Chair for Soil Standard Development

St. Louis, MO, (GreenNewswire) - The second meeting of the Agricultural Carbon Sequestration Standard Committee was held on the St Louis, Missouri, Monsanto Campus on October 26-28. The meeting was held to hear presentations from noted USDA scientists on carbon sequestration and to give committee reports of activities since the first meeting held in August. (more…)

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TeraVista Systems Partners with The Institute for Technology Development and University Illinois Chicago, Energy Resources Center

SAINT LOUIS, Missouri - September 22, 2008 - TeraVista Systems announced this week that it will be working closely with The Institute for Technology Development (ITD) and The University Illinois Chicago, Energy Resources Center (ERC) in a joint research project. The project will concentrate on conducting geospatial analysis for carbon offsets. The research will help TeraVista analyze and validate carbon offsets for agricultural land based credits. Both research projects will help the ITD and ERC in their pursuit for geospatial analysis as well as TeraVista’s product development. (more…)

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Dr. David Schertz Joins TeraVista Systems Advisory Committee

St. Louis, Missouri - September 17, 2008 - TeraVista Systems announced today that Dr. David Schertz, former president of Schertz Consulting Company, was elected, as an advisory committee member and consultant to the company. Dr. Schertz organized and managed his own consulting company which emphasized conservation issues such as promoting the use of no-till farming methods, conservation alliances, developing soil erosion prediction training materials and providing training, and making presentations. (more…)

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CleanTech Biofuels Enters Agreement with TeraVista Systems to Develop Additional Revenue Streams through Carbon Credit Protocols

Saint Louis, MO, June 24 — CleanTech Biofuels, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CLTH - News) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with TeraVista Systems to develop and implement Carbon Sequestration Protocols for CleanTech’s unique waste-to-ethanol processes and manage CleanTech’s Carbon Credits program.

CleanTech Biofuels’ novel waste-to-energy cellulosic ethanol technology systems utilize waste otherwise filling landfills to produce renewable sources of ethanol fuel locally. The Carbon Credits Protocols being integrated by TeraVista Systems into CleanTech’s systems will quantify and capitalize on Cleantech’s added benefit of mitigating methane and other dangerous greenhouse gases emissions from release into the atmosphere through traditional disposal of waste in landfills. (more…)

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