The Washington Post reported this weekend that “beginning next month, millions of Dominion Virginia Power Customers will probably see their electric bills rise by at least 18 percent, the largest one-time rate increase in three decades to pay for soaring fuel costs.” The Post ominously adds, “And it won’t stop there.” And it’s not just in [...]

We’ve just launched our latest assault on the conventional wisdom that green has got to be expensive: Earth Aid Group Buys. We’re helping folks band together to force prices on helpful green products down to unprecedented lows. We’re calling this new weapon a Group Buy. Here’s how it works: A series of exclusive offers for select green [...]

That renewable energy is the future is a fairly risk-less prognostication. Why? Well, sunshine and wind are free - not to mention the gush of rivers and oceans and the many other natural forces that can be tapped in any number of increasingly creative ways. In contrast, fossil fuel and even nuclear-powered plants will be faced [...]

The Washington Post today revisits the Green the Capitol project today, this time taking a more critical look at the initiative’s carbon offset purchases. Several months ago, we wrote: Insofar as these funds and credits eventually find their way to supporting somebody’s new energy efficiency or renewable energy projects, all this is a good thing. We [...]

What Would Oprah Do To Stop Phantom Loads? Use a Smart Strip Power Strip, of course. Parting ways with Kermit to assert that “it’s easy being green”, Oprah advocates using a Smart Strip Power Strip to automatically eliminate “phantom loads” associated with your computer or home entertainment center. What’s a phantom load? Well, every device that you’ve [...]

Thanks to the fine reporting of Shirley Siluk Gregory and associates, the Earth Aid Kit began the week featured at the top of sustainablog - a leading blog of record on all things green and innovative. Under the headline Get a Kit, Cut Your Home’s Carbon Footprint, Gregory highlighted precisely the role the Earth Aid [...]

The Washington Post, NPR, AP, and many others report today on the Center for Global Development’s launch of a brilliant new website: CARMA - Carbon Monitoring for Action. CARMA is meant to inform and empower citizens to take action to reduce our reliance on dirty energy. That’s just smart. Why? You can’t effectively address global [...]

We’re big fans of taking simple steps to improve home energy efficiency, so we were very happy to see the Chief Administrative Officer of the House (of Representative) take a simple step to mitigate the impact of the Capitol’s absurdly environmentally unfriendly coal power plant. The Washington Post reports today that Daniel Beard, [...]

Kicking off Green Week over at NBC, the Today Show had Chip Giller from Grist over to highlight seven easy ways to start going green. It’s a great highlight of just how much of a difference a few simple steps can make. Not everybody can take all seven of Chip’s steps, but all of us [...]