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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s never a dull day at the home of the Earth Aid Kit. Check out our snazzy new feature that helps you more accurately assess what sort of energy savings and emissions reduction you can expect from your Earth Aid Kit. Now you can specify how many people will be using your Earth Aid Kit and [...]

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 [...]