Napa Green is the leading sustainable winegrowing program providing comprehensive, systematic soil to bottle certification for Napa County growers and vintners. In 2021, Napa Green was the first sustainable winegrowing program globally to completely redevelop the Vineyard certification standards to focus on climate action, regenerative carbon farming, and social equity. Our members stand as leaders exemplifying that caring for nature and community elevates quality and experience for employees, customers and community, now and in the future.
Adoption of the rigorous Napa Green Vineyard and Winery certification standards
Impact, both regionally and by leveraging Napa Green and Napa County’s powerful platform, to influence adoption of leading sustainability and climate action practices in the global wine industry and beverage sector
Measurement by baselining and tracking ongoing performance for water and energy use, waste diversion, and Scope 1 & 2 emissions from the vineyard into the winery.
Napa Green supports the The Porto Protocol on its principles to mitigate climate change effects. With this communication, we express our intent to implement those principles. We are committed to making The Porto Protocol and its principles part of the
strategy, culture and day-to-day operations of our company, and to engaging in collaborative projects which advance the broader development goals of The Porto Protocol, particularly in sharing with others our good practices and results obtained with the implementation of solutions and actions that we have taken to mitigate the total impact of our activity on the environment.
At Napa Green we pledge to continuously examine and deepen our understanding of power imbalances and social biases in our everyday world.
We commit to take action whenever possible to build a more just community, and partner with individuals and organizations that share this commitment. We seek to be a visible ally and take public positions not only on social inequities and injustices within our industry and community, but also within the broader social justice movement.
Napa Green is a nonprofit partner with 1% for the Planet, an international organization whose members contribute at least one percent of their annual sales to environmental causes. 1% for the Planet approved nonprofit partners are carefully vetted environmental organizations that are eligible to receive funding from their members.
Businesses and individuals can support Napa Green and other non-profits dedicated to addressing issues surrounding climate, food, land, pollution, water, and wildlife through 1% for the Planet.
The Diversity in Wine Leadership Forum is a central resource for the wine community to connect and work with organizations with a core commitment to diversity and equity. Diversity occurs through the intersection of gender, race, ability, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, language, and age.
Organizations with a commitment to diversity recognize that these social categories create overlapping systems that can disadvantage or discriminate against individuals and groups in differing ways. Having a core commitment to diversity means seeking to open doors to more people, creating easier access to resources for success, and not only including but welcoming people of diverse backgrounds and experience
Organizations with a commitment to equity seek to increase access to resources needed for inclusion and success to more diverse people and groups; uncover and undo root causes of disparity within our industry; promote justice, impartiality, and fairness in these ways; and ultimately seek to include more diversity at the decision-making levels of the wine industry.
Bill Bennett is trained and licensed as a Civil Engineer, and draws on decades of experience with commercial and industrial resource use to help Napa County wineries understand, manage, and reduce energy and water use. Beginning in 2016, Bill led the design and facilitation of “Integrated Resource Audits” for wineries seeking Napa Green Winery certification or recertification. These one-stop, user friendly energy, water and waste evaluations baseline and track resource efficiency over time and provide targeted recommendations for both cost and resource savings. With more than 160 reviews to date, Bill has developed a broad portfolio of operational guidance and recommendations which have helped Napa Green wineries save more than $4 million in energy costs and over 27 million gallons of water (as of July 2021).
Prior to joining Napa Green, Bill was a key team member at Sustainable Napa County (SNC) where he designed and implemented a county-wide energy efficiency program for commercial customers of PG&E (Napa County Energy Watch). Prior to SNC, Bill was the Resident Engineer for the Anheuser-Busch InBev Fairfield brewery, where he led successful and innovative energy efficiency changes at this $500 million facility including 1 MW of ground mount tracking solar, 1.5 MW wind turbine, anaerobic digestion, upgrades and automation of compressed air, boilers, and ammonia refrigeration systems, making it a beacon for energy conservation in an industry, with production issues very similar to those of the winemaking community.
Viticulture & Winemaking Operations, Trefethen Family Vineyards
Consulting Winemaker
Industry Relations and Regulatory Affairs Director, Napa Valley Vintners
President & CEO, Visit Napa Valley
Winemaker, Massican Winery and Board Member, Napa Valley Grapegrowers
Partner, WineWise; Founder, Reyes Wine Group and Co-Founder, Wine Unify
Napa Climate NOW! and Sierra Club Napa Group
Director of Viticulture & Winemaking at Dominus Estate
Assistant Winemaker & Environmental Manager at Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery
President, ViewCraft
Program Director, Napa County Resource Conservation District
Sustainable Agriculture Program Manager, Napa County Resource Conservation District
Sustainable Agriculture Program Manager, Napa County Resource Conservation District
President, Creative Furnace LLC and Director of Marketing Communications at Lloyd Cellars & Prescription Vineyards
Director Technical Viticulture, Sustainability & Research at Treasury Wine Estates