Green Earth Technologies

Company Overview

Green Earth Technologies, a consumer goods manufacturer, produces “G”-Branded superior performing TOTALLY GREEN products made entirely from American Grown Base Oils that now puts the power of patent pending nanotechnology (doing more with less) and dehydrogenation into the hands of environmentally concerned consumers everywhere.

Ultimate Biodegradable (ASTM Standard’s highest available ranking) and environmentally safe, G-Brands consisting of G-OIL™, G-DISPOSOIL™, G-WASH™, G-GLASS™, G-SCENT™ G-WHEEL™, G-TIRE™ and G-TILE™ are diversified to cross categories within several market segments, including automotive performance & appearance chemicals, marine performance & appearance chemicals, household cleaning solutions and lawn & garden chemicals. Consumers can now choose to “do their part” without having to give up performance or value…SAVE the EARTH – SACRIFICE NOTHING! Welcome to our web site for the latest news and in-depth information about Green Earth Technologies and our brands. GETGreen!

THINK GREEN

Environmentalism is fast becoming embedded in our culture and most Americans would do more for the environment if they only knew how.

SAVE THE EARTH – SACRIFICE NOTHING

Save the Earth = consumers doing their part to clean up the environment for a better tomorrow

Sacrifice Nothing = consumers not having to give up performance or pay a premium when choosing to “do their part”

Green Earth Technologies is a “TOTALLY GREEN” clean-tech company that combines renewable sourced feed stocks with proprietary technologies molded around the four ideologies of being GREEN:

• Renewable
  
• Recyclable
  
• Biodegradable
  
• Environmentally friendly

Chemicals, when stored or transported, use a diamond shaped diagram of symbols and numbers to indicate the degree of hazard associated when a particular chemical or material. These diamond shaped symbols are for fire, health, reactivity and special hazards. The diagram identifies four color-coded categories of hazard for each material. Each category is divided in levels of hazard potential with increasing numbers indicating increasing hazards ranging form 0 (no hazard) to 4 (hazardous). Green Earth Technologies prides itself on its perfect three zero or four diamond safety rating. This means that all GET products pose no health risks to its handlers, is not flammable, has no detrimental reactivity with other chemicals and poses absolutely NO health threat.

Hazard Rating

Note: According to the NFPA the degree of health hazard of a material should indicate the degree of personal protective equipment required for working safely with the material - “0” is harmless, “1” requires safety glasses and gloves, “2” requires chemical goggles, lab/work smock and local ventilation and “3” or “4” requires a respirator or exhaust hood, full face shield, rubber apron, specialized gloves and handling tongs. Pennzoil 2-Cycle Motor Oil carries a “2” rating while GET’s G-OIL 2-Cycle Green Motor Oil carries a “0”.

We put our hazard rating on all of our packaging…ever wonder why others don’t?

WHAT IS GREEN?

It seems many of us are realizing what Kermit the Frog has been telling us for years, “It is cool to be green”. Automobile manufactures are picking up on the trend as well as major retailers such as Home Depot who are touting their commitment via national ad campaigns. NBC nightly news recently ran a series on the “Greening of America”.

We now have green buildings, green household products, green automobiles, green electricity, green fuels and green tea. So what does it mean to be green? With the exception of green tea, “green” products have several things in common.
Green Buildings

Take for instance green buildings. The U.S. Green Building Council has developed the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ which is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. This program is based on a qualitative point system that goes well beyond energy efficient building envelopes and mechanical/electrical systems. Site selection, construction waste minimizing techniques and materials of construction are also important. For example utilization of flooring products produced from fast growing bamboo is rewarded over utilization of products from slower growing hardwoods. Points are also awarded for building features such as recycling stations and parking for shared cars or even bicycle racks to promote this type of commute. In short, LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality.

Green Fuels

The recent record prices for gasoline and diesel have focused attention on America’s dependence on imported fossil fuel. The additional “green” we are paying at the pump has been a catalyst for the promotion of alternative “green” fuels, namely biodiesel and ethanol. In President Bush’s recent State of The Union speech he stated "America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world. The best way to break this addiction is through technology”. Furthermore, as part of an "advanced energy initiative," Bush said the United States should reduce its reliance on foreign oil by using technology to develop alternative energy sources, such as ethanol-blended gasoline and hydrogen fuel cells to run pollution-free vehicles. The president set a goal to replace more than 75 percent of U.S. oil imports from the Middle East by 2025.

But are green fuels new? Actually green fuels are really a back to the future approach.

In the late nineteenth century, Rudolph Diesel developed a new kind of internal combustion engine utilizing high compression to raise a fuel/air mixture to its ignition temperature. This compression-ignition principle allowed his engine to use a wide variety of fuels. When Mr. Diesel demonstrated his engine at the 1898 Exhibition Fair in Paris, France, he ran the engine on peanut oil. Mr. Diesel thought that the real future of his engine rested with the use of plant oils which are renewable or sustainable resources. In 1912, Diesel said, "The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become, in course of time, as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time”.

In the 1920s the developing petroleum industry began offering a low-grade fuel suitable for diesel engines. Before long, this new, plentiful and cheap fuel supply had replaced biomass fuels and led to the development of the diesel engine and fuel we know today.

Biodiesel is a renewable fuel produced from agricultural resources such as vegetable oils. In the United States, most biodiesel is made from soybean oil; however canola oil, sunflower oil, recycled cooking oils and animal fats are also used.

Why biodiesel? Biodiesel has a number of important benefits. As an alternative to diesel, it can help reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Biodiesel also provides significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions. B100 reduces lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50 percent, while B20 reduces GHG emissions by at least 10 percent. In addition, biodiesel offers several criteria emissions benefits for the existing vehicle fleet. It reduces emissions of carbon monoxide, particulate matter (PM), and sulfates, as well as hydrocarbon and air toxics emissions.

Ethanol-fueled vehicles date back to the 1880s when Henry Ford designed a car that ran solely on ethanol. He later built the first flex fuel vehicle: a 1908 Model T designed to operate on either ethanol or gasoline.

Ethanol is a renewable fuel made from plants. Essentially non-drinkable grain alcohol, ethanol is produced by fermenting plant sugars. It can be made from corn, sugar cane, and other starchy agricultural product. The cellulose in agricultural wastes such as waste woods and corn stalks (also know as "cellulosic ethanol") can also be used as a base. In the United States, most ethanol is currently made from corn, although because of rapidly developing research, cellulosic ethanol may soon become a larger part of the market.

Why ethanol? Much of the increased interest in ethanol as a vehicle fuel is due to its ability to replace gasoline from imported oil. While pure ethanol is rarely used for transportation fuel, there are several ethanol-gasoline blends in use today. E85 is a blend of 85 percent denatured ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. Another common mix is E10, a blend of 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline.

E85 also provides important reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. When made from corn, E85 reduces lifecycle GHG emissions (which include the energy required to grow and process corn into ethanol) by 15-20% as compared to gasoline. E85 made from cellulose can reduce emissions by around 70 percent as compared to gasoline.

Perhaps the most efficient use of ethanol is to blend it with diesel and biodiesel and utilize this blend in diesel engines. Diesel and ethanol mix like oil and water without the use of special additives. However additives allow these fuels to blend or emulsify without separation. Blending ethanol with diesel and/or biodiesel results in a renewable, oxygenated, cleaner burning fuel suitable for off and on road use in both new and old engines. This oxygenated diesel is expected to improve diesel engine performance while cutting visible smoke and reducing hazardous emissions. In fact blends with 7.5% ethanol have been reported to: reduce particulate matter over 20 to 46%; reduce NOx 1.8 to 8.5%; reduce CO 12 to 23%; reduce smoke 50 to 70%; and improve opacity of exhaust 55 to 70%.

Green Machines

Thus green fuels are renewable or sustainable while reducing environmental impact. However, while low percentage blends of green fuel such as B10 or B20 (ten or twenty percent biodiesel blended with diesel) or E10 (ten percent ethanol with gasoline) can be used in unmodified engines, higher concentrations of these green fuels require modified engines. Most major automobile manufactures offer alternative fuel or flex fuel vehicles. And these green machines are selling. In 2003 there were 1,800 alternative fuel vehicles in London. Now: 14,000. Currently there are 10.5 million alternative fuel vehicles on American roads, a jump of 22 percent over 2005 numbers. All in all, 2006 was a banner year for auto dealers selling alt fuel vehicles: totals topped out at 1.5 million--more than 500,000 more than industry projections.
Green Power

That brings us to green power. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established the Green Power Partnership; a voluntary program helping to support the increased use of green power among leading U.S. organizations, in order to reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use. A key program requirement is the purchase of green power from eligible renewable resources such as: solar electric; wind; geothermal; hydropower; biomass; biodiesel; and fuel cells.
Green Products

Other green products are in demand. After all why should we wash our clothes in products made from petroleum?

Green claims can be found in many advertisements and labels today. They are the direct response to consumers' increasing interest in protecting the environment. Institutional consumers also care about buying "green”. Indeed, the President of the United States has issued Executive Orders encouraging federal procurement officers to purchase recycled and environmentally preferable products. Such purchases are required by Executive Order 12873, Federal Acquisition, Recycling, and Waste Prevention. The Executive Order also directed the EPA to develop guidance to help federal agencies incorporate environmental preferability into their purchasing procedures. Environmentally preferable products are products and services [that] have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared to other products and services that serve the same purpose.

Mass marketers are beginning to ride the “Green Wave”. After battling over prices for decades, so-called big-box retail chains in the United States are set to fight it out in a new arena: the environment. Home Depot will introduce a line of 3,000 products, like fluorescent light bulbs and natural insect killers, that promote clean water and energy conservation. The product line - expected to reach 6,000 products by 2009, or 12 percent of the chain's total - would become the largest "green" labeling program in American retailing and could persuade competitors to speed up similar plans. And it signals that Home Depot, the second-largest U.S. retailer, is joining the first, Wal-Mart Stores, in trying to educate shoppers about issues, like climate change, that stores have traditionally left to the government and environmental groups.

Executives of Home Depot said that as the world's largest buyer of building materials, the company had the power to persuade thousands of suppliers, home builders and consumers to follow its lead. “Who in the world has a chance to have a bigger impact on this sector than Home Depot?" said Ron Jarvis, the head of environmental sustainability at the retailer, which is based in Atlanta. Jarvis said Home Depot had found that, "given the option of a product that performs just as well, we are seeing the consumer would rather buy something that has less of an impact on the environment, adding, "We are just making that easier”. Suppliers who earn the Eco Option label will be rewarded with prominent shelf space in Home Depot's 3,000 stores and aggressive marketing in weekly advertising supplements.

So what is green? Green is renewable, recyclable, biodegradable, earth friendly, environmental friendly and a host of other adjectives. But “Green” is simply sustainable.

Sustainable is defined as the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely. One of the most often cited definitions of sustainability is the one created by the Brundtland Commission which states sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.

WHY GREEN?

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, over 40% of our nation’s oil pollution comes from the improper disposal of used motor oil by Do-It-Yourselfers.

One five quart oil change improperly disposed can:

• create an oil slick on the surface of ten acres (about ½ million square feet),
  
• render five acres (about ¼ million square feet) unusable for planting for decades,
  
• and, contaminate one million gallons (a year supply for 50 people) of water.

Green Earth Technologies’ products, including G-OIL, are made from American grown base oils, achieving an Ultimate Biodegradability ranking form the ASTM standard D5864 which defines 'Ultimate Biodegradable' as a product that is rapidly absorbed (eaten) by microorganisms by 60% in 28 days. G-Oil proudly exceeds those standards; for more news on G-Oil's biodegradability, click here.

The biodegradability of motor oil depends on the feedstock. If the feedstock is crude oil, then the biodegradability that can be obtained is between 15% -35% and synthetics biodegradability value is between 5% - 30%. For G-OIL, where the feedstock is plant oil or animal fat, the biodegradability is significantly better with 65% to 95% achievable within 9 days and more over time.

THE BENEFITS

Benefits of Green Motor Oil

Effects of Green Motor Oil on the Environment (Automotive):

Green Motor Oil (G-OIL) has several advantages over crude or other oils including synthetics:

• Ultimate Biodegradable and Renewable
  
• Environmentally friendly, significant amount of ground water pollution can be controlled or eliminated
  
• Low or no toxic
  
• High Performance…naturally better than synthetics
  
• Excellent lubricity (superior performance can be achieved by introducing Molybdenum disulfide nanospheres)
  
• High flash point
  
• The unsaturated fatty ester, Methyl Oleate, helps to lower the pour point.
  
• Reductions in Greenhouse gas emissions
  
• Provide significant reductions in HC (hydrocarbons -32%), CO (carbon monoxide -48%) and NOx (nitrous oxides -80% emissions
  
• Best solution to air and water pollution
  
• Can be stored anywhere

Effects of Green 2-Cycle Engine Oil (Lawn and Garden & Marine):

• Allow you to use both water-cooled 2-cycle engines
  
• Does not utilize a solvent to increase gasoline miscibility
  
• Offer a significant worker-safety advantages since the product has a flash point of 262°F
  
• No harmful VOC’s Non-flammable
  
• Base stocks are non-GMO (genetically modified organism) agricultural vegetable oils
  
• G-OIL exceeds the ASTM Standard for "Ultimate Biodegradable" the highest biodegradability ranking as determined by 2.1 ASTM D-5864

Recent GETG News:

January 8 - G-OIL Debuts at Daytona International Speedway in Kinetic Motorsports' BMW M3

Green Earth Technologies (Pink Sheets: GETG) announced recently that their G-OIL(TM) G-1 Racing Oil has completed extensive trials at Daytona International Raceway in Florida to establish the performance of their new motor oil products. Kinetic Motorsports and Kinetic Sunbelt Engines performed on-track race tests in their BMW M3 GS car (a race built version of a standard street-going BMW M3) to establish the oil's operating parameters, and have concluded that G-OIL outperformed all the synthetic oils that they currently use. G-OIL will now be used in all Kinetic race cars for the upcoming Grand-Am Koni Sports Car Challenge later this month at the world famous NASCAR circuit in Daytona Florida.

Jim Thompson, Head of Kinetic Sunbelt Engines said, "During extensive testing of G-Oil in our race engines at Daytona, we have concluded that the oil not only possesses the basic characteristics that we demand in an engine oil, but it in fact outperformed all synthetic oils that we currently use. The durability and heat transfer capabilities of the oil were impressive with improvements in the range of 5-10% seen on the track. This, coupled with the reduced friction, created less wear and tear on the engine components. These characteristics held together exceptionally well during our rigorous testing on the track and translated to greater horsepower, torque and better fuel economy. We are very excited about these tests and look forward to beating out the competition while protecting the environment."

"Consumers can now buy G-OIL(TM) with the confidence that you don't have to sacrifice performance by buying green oil, as our racing oil is basically the same as G-OIL currently available at retail," said Mathew Zuckerman, Ph.D., President and COO of Green Earth Technologies. "This is a major milestone for Green Earth Technologies and the 'green' auto industry, proving the success of our bio based G-OIL under the most severe racing conditions."

The track testing reinforced the recent rigorous dyno testing that was performed by world renowned Roush Yates Engines in North Carolina. Roush Yates Engines are responsible for building and racing their own NASCAR entered cars along with supplying engines for all Ford powered Daytona Prototype cars in the Grand-Am Rolex Road Racing Series.

What makes G-OIL so unique is a proprietary ingredient and a patent pending system that supports the ingredient's performance. The ingredient is called "Nano Geodesic Bearings", aka "NGB." These NGB's are tiny spherical shaped particles that are comparable in size to the molecules that make-up the base material of Bio based oil. These particles are postulated to spin at almost unimaginable high speed to support adjacent oil molecules to squeeze more precious horsepower out of the engine: Truly nano-sized ball bearings.

G-OIL is the world's "eco-friendly," ultimate biodegradable motor oil. Unlike traditional petrochemical-based motor oils from leading manufacturers, Green Earth Technologies' G-OIL is made with renewable animal fats. These saturated fats have no harsh effects on the environment. G-OIL G-1 Racing Oil will soon be available to professional and amateur racing enthusiasts alike at a variety of outlets including the www.getg.com .

ABOUT KINETIC MOTORSPORTS

Kinetic Motorsports is a subsidiary of Kinetic Group located in Buford, Georgia. Kinetic Group is comprised of Kinetic Speed Shop and Kinetic Sunbelt Engines. Kinetic Speed Shop is a Porsche and BMW street car performance shop. Kinetic Sunbelt Engines is a leading provider of race and championship winning BMW, Mazda and Porsche engines for club and professional teams throughout North America.

ABOUT GREEN EARTH TECHNOLOGIES

Green Earth Technologies produces G-branded superior performing totally green products made with American-grown base oils that utilize the power of nanotechnology to deliver environmentally friendly products with no compromise... meaning, consumers can now "do their part" without having to give up performance or value: Save the Earth - Sacrifice Nothing. The G-brand family of products include G-OIL(TM), G-LUBE(TM), G-WASH(TM), G-GLASS(TM), G-CLEAN(TM), G-SCENT(TM), G-WHEEL(TM), G-PROTECT(TM) and G-TIRE(TM), and are offered in a wide range of automotive categories including performance and appearance chemicals. GET products are now available at The Home Depot, Kroger, VIP, National Auto, Fred Meyer, participating ACE & True Value dealers, Redners, Trader Horns, The Andersons, Biggs, Bennett Auto, Frank's Auto Supermarket and Amazon.com. Please visit www.getg.com for the latest news and in-depth information about GET and its brands.

Green Earth Technologies Inc.
3 Stamford Landing, Suite 200
Stamford, CT 06902
Phone: 877.GET.GRN1 (877.438.4761)
Fax: 877.GET.FAX3 (877.438.3293)

Website: http://www.getg.com/