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Green Tags:

"  Green tags  " also known as " Renewable Energy Credits ( R.E.C. )" is a name for the environmental attributes of renewable energy.

Are You Aware that the Average U.S. Household Produces More than 35,000 Pounds of Greenhouse Gas Every Year?

Through normal activities of using electricity, heating a home and driving a car, each of us is responsible for adding carbon dioxide and other emissions into the air we all breathe. Annually, the activities of an average U.S. household can result in more than 35,000 pounds of CO2 and other pollutants. Carbon dioxide emissions are the leading cause of global climate change.

You can offset the polluting effects of your energy use by supporting the development of clean renewable energy. Most traditional power generation relies on burning fossil fuel. Every time we replace existing power with wind, solar or another renewable resource, your electricity pool becomes a little greener and that benefits everyone.

Green Tags are created when wind power or other renewable energy is substituted for traditional power. The result is a shift away from our dependence on burning fossil fuel to produce electricity. Using clean renewable energy is friendly to the environment and reduces emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Green Tags represent the real savings in carbon dioxide and other pollutants that occur when green power replaces burning fossil fuel.

Renewable energy is still a little more expensive than buying traditional power so Green Tags are purchased in addition to the electricity that you are now using. Buying Green Tags has the same effect as buying green power. Both replace fossil fuel generators with clean renewals, and both have exactly the same environmental benefits.

What kind of environmental impact do Green Tags have? 

The environmental impact of one person buying a Green Tags is significant.

If  only  one household purchased one Green Tag for one year it would directly eliminate the following 5 emissions:

1. 172 milligrams of mercury: just 1 milligram of mercury in a 25 acre lake is enough to make all the fish in that lake unfit to eat.  This is really toxic stuff.  Mercury has been strongly linked to autism, Alzheimer’s and heart disease among other illnesses.  And yet power plants are responsible for 61% of all airborne mercury in the U.S. , a whopping 41 Million milligrams per year.  That’s almost 5,000 milligrams every minute.  Just one average coal plant spews out hundreds of pounds – tens of thousands of milligrams – of mercury every year. 
2. 67 pounds of nitrogen oxide, which causes smog, air pollution, creates dangerous ground level ozone and has been proven to cause headaches and exacerbate asthma.  Cases of asthma in children in the U.S. have tripled in the last 2 decades, and asthma is the leading cause of missed school days in the Northeast.
3. 55 pounds of sulfur dioxide, which causes acid rain and damages entire ecosystems and food supplies.
4. 12 tons of carbon dioxide, the leading global warming gas.
5. And hundreds of pounds of particulate matter, which causes thousands of people to die in the U.S. every year from asthma attacks and upper respiratory illness, and hundreds of millions of dollars in direct healthcare costs.

  So, the environmental impact of one person buying Green Tags is significant.  But what kind of economic impact do Green Tags have for your region or country? 

  Utilities by law, in all 50 states, have to purchase clean energy for every green tag sold.  This means that when you buy a Green Tag, you can be assured that somewhere in the grid those electrons were produced using clean power – and you’re helping to incrementally ‘Green Up’ the national power grid.

  So, what is the demand for Green Tags?  Over 1,000 surveys and polls in recent years by numerous credible organizations such as the Edison Electric Institute, the United States National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Electric Power Research Institute, Stanford University, and Platts Engineering have all said the same thing: 80% of Americans and 62% of businesses support clean, renewable power, even if it costs a little more for their utility to produce it.  And 24% of Americans say they would pay more on their own electric bills for clean power in the form of Green Tags.  That 24% represents a market of over 60 Million Americans – and yet today only about 3 Million have signed up for a Green Tag program.  

Interested in buying GREEN TAGS ( R.E.C. ) give us a call:

Buy One Green Tag ( R.E.C. ) for $ 30.00, donate it to charity *, write it off on your taxes, and we will also send you a monthly thank you gift.

You will receive a gift certificate every month worth up to $15 in value as a way of saying thank you for doing the right thing.  The value of the tax deduction and the gift combined can be as much as $30 per month. **

Do you part - buy a Green Tag today.

* Must itemize deductions ( Schedule B ), to claim a charity deduction.
I.R.S. Tax Law  :  501c3 non-profit organization

** As long as you keep paying for your green tag.

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