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  Finding eco-minded singles

  Good call, Dave, on volunteering.  There's a website www.realidate.com that brings singles together for volunteering & other events.  Also check out meetup.com which organizes monthly face-to-face meetings (search topics like "environment" and
  "democracy for america"--which came out of the Howard Dean campaign).  Other places to meet eco-minded singles: care2.com/community , veggielove.com and greensingles.com .

  Eharmony.com is quite good in general, and here's a tip: after taking the lengthy test, you get to fill in your profile, and you can write just about anything in the input fields (including ways to look up your contact info!)...before you subscribe.  Eharmony doesn't seem to screen the text that users input.

  ~ George
  http://georgekao.comOn Umbra on love posted 3 years, 8 months ago 7 Responses

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  Innovative way to make wind cost-competitive

  Utility companies can be forced to buy wind power if it is cost-competitive with polluting power, thanks to PURPA (Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act) & RES (Renewable Electricity Standard) laws.  

  Renewable energy credits (or "green tags") can purchased by eco-conscious individuals who want to invest in green power to earn an environmental (and sometimes financial) return.

  CleanEnergyTeam.comOn Umbra on wind farms ... again posted 4 years, 3 months ago 56 Responses

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  Say YES! to green tags

  Gene,

  Your basic objection seems to suggest that industrial customers cannot also switch to green power?  Green tags is already allowing many to do so: Sprint, IBM, Kinko's, Staples, to name a few.   (I'm not saying that they're perfect, just that they're beginning to switch to green energy thanks to consumer pressure and PR benefits.)  A company that is marketing green tags to universities and corporations is Pristine Power.  And Krystal-Energy is using referral-based marketing to get green tags into homes everywhere.

  So as we continue to "demand that industrial customers buy green" and support legislation pressuring businesses to go green, we can also, for our own homes, transition to 100% certified green power.  35 million people in Europe (and 1 million in the U.S.) are already buying green tags and for good reason: it's the easiest way for any home to switch to clean power.

  ~ George Kao
  Krystal-Energy.comOn Umbra on Green Tags posted 4 years, 8 months ago 10 Responses