Want To Power Your Home With Green Power?
Posted: Monday, October 30th, 2006 by damnHippyTags: Activism, Climate Change, Conservation, Energy, Pollution, Renewable Energy
Perhaps you don't have the money, space, or time to install solar panels on your roof. Perhaps you live in an apartment complex and don't know what else you can do. Even if this is the case, you can still power your entire home with Wind, Solar or other renewable energies. The E.P.A, even though they haven't been doing much E.P lately, has a page on their site that lets users find sellers of green energy in their location.
I live in Manhattan, NY and still have access to my choice of green energy sources through Con Edison our local utility company. If you don't know how this works, it's really quite simple, you sign up to receive green power through your utility. You'll probably be given a choice of different options, such as partial wind split with solar, 100% wind, etc. The program usually results in a small increase per kilowatt/hour, 2 cents for me, sometimes as low as .5 cents. The good news is you can use the power in your house proudly knowing that it's not pumping harmful greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, as well as other contaminants. It's good for the environment, it's good for public health, and it's good for political stability in the world.
Head on over to the Green Power Partnership on the EPA website, or just call your utility company and tell them you would like to run your home on green energy, if they say they don't offer it, complain.
Green Power Partnership » [EPA.gov]
