The Power’s in Your Hands!
Think you need solar panels to get in on green energy?
The Bite
Nope – use that opposable thumb to pick up the phone or write an email to your local energy company asking it to offer a green option (if it doesn’t already). Then give yourself a big thumbs-up.
The Benefits
*Getting a grip on pollution. Power plants are the #1 air polluter in the United States.
*High fives for health. A study found that greener power plants could prevent 22,000 pollution-related deaths each year.
*A handy investment for power companies. Even big businesses like FedEx , HSBC Bank, and Kohl’s are buying green energy, because they see it’s important to their customers – that’d be you.
Personally Speaking
All of us have or will soon have green power options. But, if you don’t have green power in your area, you can always purchase offsets to counterbalance your CO2 output.
