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 [...]

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 [...]

Happy New Year, Canadians! We wanted to make sure that our friendly neighbors to the north could also kick-off 2008 by making the green resolution that keeps itself - outfitting your house with the easy energy efficiency upgrades of the Earth Aid Kit. What better purpose to put your impressively appreciated currency towards than helping out Mother [...]

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 [...]

      That’s right: chances are that your power company will pay you to pay them less. Why? As Thomas Friedman and others have noted, it costs your utility a bundle to build extra power plants to handle growing electricity demand. So, they’d much rather pay you use their existing electric capacity more efficiently.     Obviously, that’s good [...]

We’re proud to support Habitat for Humanity of Washington DC by providing - entirely free of charge - complete Earth Aid Kits to every new Habitat house built in Washington. We’re starting right now by fully equipping four new homes that will open soon on 55th Street NE. All the showerheads, thermostats, light bulbs, and [...]

Over the next few days, this blog will be introducing the Earth Aid Kit. We’ll show you what we’ve got, why you should use it, how you can get it, and how you can help make a dent in global warming and dependence on foreign energy with your Earth Aid Kit. The Earth Aid Kit™ is [...]