Green Power

Here’s a really quick step you can take to seriously decrease your carbon footprint without making a huge dent in your wallet: green power. Here’s a blurb from the site:

If just 10 percent of New York’s households purchased green power in conjunction with their electricity supply, it would prevent nearly three billion pounds of carbon dioxide, 13 million pounds of sulfur dioxide, and nearly four million pounds of nitrogen oxides from getting into our air each year.

You can easily sign up online with your Con Ed account number. I signed up through Con Ed Solutions, which means I get a single bill, and 100% of my electricity is generated from wind power, one of the cleanest sources available. The premium for wind power is 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, approximately an extra $8.75/ month for a typical household. (Of course, if you have a small place, and are careful to conserve energy in other ways, you’ll pay less.) So for around $100/year, you can remove yourself from the fossil fuel economy. That’s a bargain at twice the price.