532 Reasons to buy clean energy. What's yours?
Posted by Rahul Chitrapu on Mon, Mar 01, 2010
The Center for Resource Solutions or CRS, a non-profit that administers the Green-e program which provides certification and regulatory oversight to the renewable energy industry, launched a year long campaign called Buy Clean Energy 2010.
This campaign will promote renewable electricity purchases among individuals and businesses across United States. I am proud to say that EcoElectrons is one of the sponsoring organizations to this campaign that is focused on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and has the ambitious goal of 1 billion unique kilowatt hours of new purchases made in 2010.
Buy Clean Energy 2010 will utilize its website, www.buycleanenergy.org, to encourage individuals and organizations to buy renewable electricity in support of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. On the website, visitors are given tools to find out how much electricity they use, research local green electricity programs, buy renewable energy credits through a 'Buy Now' button, and share testimonials about why they purchased renewable energy. "Buying clean energy is one of the most important tools consumers and businesses have to reduce the impact of their electricity use," said CRS Executive Director Arthur O'Donnell. "That's why this campaign is so important. No matter what our politics or our perspectives on climate change, we can all agree that building more renewable energy will result in energy security, job creation, fewer emissions, and less pollution. This is the one thing consumers can do now to make a big impact."
The campaign with the tag line, '532 Reasons to Buy Clean Energy. What's yours?', has numerous sponsoring and supporting organizations.