Buy Green Energy
| June 29, 2011 | Posted by admin under Green Energy |
You Can Buy Green Building Products - Benefits of Going Green
Author: Bryan Burbank
Using green building products can be a great way that you can help protect the environment and reduce land field expansion. If you are redesigning a kitchen or bathroom in your house then you need to consider using products that are designated green. These products in most cases will be recycled and then reused again. With so many people in the world and the population continuing to grow we need to find a way that everybody can go green.
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The first thing that you need to do is talk to a contractor who specializes in using only green products. You want to find a contractor that has experience doing this because you will get much better results. It is a good idea to get references from any builder or contractor you are thinking about using. You want to make sure that they know exactly what they are doing before they begin.
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You should always educate yourself about green products so you know what is truly a good product to use. Some items claimed to be recycled but in reality they may not be. Also when you use a specialist who knows about these types of products you can feel confident that every item that is used is safe for the environment.
It is a good idea to visit your local builders store to find out what type of green products they carry. You should ask them as many questions as possible so that you understand what it means to go green. You may be shocked to find out that every item you use to build or redo your house can be a renewable product.
Remember that when you are looking for building materials you should consider using green items. The important thing to remember is that you are helping to save the environment.
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Are there any gov’t financial incentives or grants to help buy green-energy producing technology in Canada?
like wind-energy propellor things or solar panels for the house, or even for the workplace
Someone please tell me about them, don’t just answer Yes or No.
yes
Should I buy stock in green energy?
I’m looking to make a long term investment. I just don’t know of any big green energy companies yet. Could anyone tell me what a good company there is out there I could invest in?
why don’t you buy stock in my didick…. it’s on the rise
Do you think it is a good idea to buy energy stock now?
I have been wanting to start buying stock for some time now and what with tax returns coming back I think it may be a good time to start. I am thinking of buying into “green energy” companies or companies that sell fibro optics. I have a few other ideas but I can’t figure out what’s best to buy. Stocks are so cheap now it’s difficult to decide. What do you think is going to boom?
Energy’s great. i’ve been looking at a few at these low levels. What main ones are you looking into? If you like green – I’d assume you’ve looked into ener.
I’d just buy the basic uso for oil being so cheap by the barrel now. Forget “green energy” Let’s make some money. Uso’s your pick. 52 week low right now. Be ready to average down if we get 10% lower. I think we will easily see 10% more on oil by the barrel by summer time.
Is a green energy credit the same thing as a carbon credit?
I know how carbon credits are used but I noticed that some companies claim that they “buy green energy credits” as though it’s a positive thing. Don’t companies want to advertise that they sell credits because they don’t use all theirs up?
No they’re different things. Related in that they’re both ways to reduce CO2, and both are important. But there are some big distinctions.
Okay you know how carbon credits work at offsetting your emissions so I won’t spend any time explaining those, other than they’re good but should ONLY be used as a last case resort (reduce your emissions first!).
Where green energy comes into play is that it’s produced by renewable sources, such as wind, solar, hydro, etc. Simple as that.
So if you generate 4 tonnes on CO2 for burning the fuel in your car for a year, and another 4 tonnes from the coal burned to produce electricity to power your house for a year, you can use both Carbon and Green Energy credits to zero your emissions from both.
You can’t buy green energy for your car (unless you have an electric vehicle…), so Carbon offsets are the ONLY way to do that. But you CAN buy your electricity from renewable sources, and by doing so your house power consumption hasn’t contributed produced any CO2 at all. You can also use Carbon Credits to offset the house instead, but Green Energy is better if you can.
People get confused and think that there needs to be a separate ‘Green’ power cord to plug your house into. This isn’t the case. What happens is that ALL electricity goes into the same grid and gets used at it’s nearest point. The power itself doesn’t know or care where it’s being used. So the actual physical electricity produced by renewable power might be used by someone NOT paying for green energy, and if you’re nearer to a coal power station, you’ll be using power from there regardless.
But this is the important part. It doesn’t matter where it comes from or goes. What matters is that there’s a DEMAND for it in the first place. For example, if there’s 100GW of power coming from coal, and 1GW coming from Renewables, and no one bothers buying green energy, there’s no reason to make more Renewables. But if MOST people (like, 70GW’s worth) said they want to buy green power instead of coal power, then a HUGE amount of renewable power stations would need to be built, and the coal stations could eventually be turned off. So it’s EXTREMELY important and perhaps the best thing (and easiest) all of us can do. Right now.
But right now there’s still only a tiny fraction of people buying green energy because they’re either not aware of it, or they don’t want to pay the 5c or so more per KW, or they don’t think the world even needs clean renewable energy…
I’m aware of it, I don’t mind the extra money, and I think it’s essential that we switch to clean energy. So I’m one of those that buy Green Energy (as well as offsetting the other stuff).
Hope that helps.
what products are good to buy for green energy, for my house?
compact florescent lights
rechargeable batteries
recycled paper
Energy Star products