NativeEnergy Newsletter: "Green" your sweet tooth
May 2012
Green sweeteners: 4 tips for your sweet tooth
Where does the sugar in your morning coffee come from? Imagine if it grew in your own backyard.
That’s right: you can harvest sugar, and likely cut carbon emissions, even if you live in a cold climate. But that’s not all. Here are four ways to “green” your sweetener, from the unusual to the common sensible.
Climate change and the risk of rising seas
How do you picture climate change? Aside from the warming part, another problem lies in the future: rising sea levels, which means a higher risk of damaging floods in coastal communities.
Unshopping: where thrift and neighbors come together
An older guy I work with occasionally puzzles over why there are so many storage facilities, and when they became necessary. As far as he can recall—and he’s not so old his memory has totally failed him—storage lockers didn’t exist when he was younger. What happened?
Sierra Club Outings: Environmentally minded adventure travel
Do you love to travel but worry about the environmental effects of tourism? Do you want to give back to the communities that you visit?
Trash to Energy: NativeEnergy project fires bricks with landfill gas
Last fall, we visited Oklahoma to celebrate the opening of the Wewoka Biogas Project. This project uses gas from a landfill to fire bricks at a local business next door. It is expected to reduce 30,000 tons of greenhouse gas pollution each year.
NativeEnergy customers offset 77,000 hours of computer use
Thanks to everyone who took our website survey. We offset 30 pounds of carbon emissions for each complete response, and we gained valuable insight too. Over the next few months, we'll be making updates to our website to better serve your needs. Stay tuned!
About NativeEnergy
NativeEnergy is an expert provider of carbon offsets, renewable energy credits, and carbon accounting software. With NativeEnergy’s Help Build™ offsets, businesses and individuals can help finance the construction of wind, biogas, solar, and other carbon reduction projects with strong social and environmental benefits. Since 2000, NativeEnergy’s customers have helped build over 50 projects, reducing more than 2.5 million tons of greenhouse gases, and the company has over 4 million tons under contract. All NativeEnergy carbon offsets undergo third-party validation and verification. Learn more at www.nativeenergy.com.
