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In this issue:
Upcoming events!
NC GreenPower is a part of more than 100 events each year. Earth Month is April and it is by far our busiest month. Thinking about volunteering as a member of our Speakers Bureau? Visit our events calendar and sign up to volunteer today. We offer free trainings throughout the year and across the state.
If you would like to be notified about the next volunteer training in your town, please contact us
via email or call (919) 857-9026
for more information on opportunities!
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Make a tax-deductible donation TODAY using our convenient, online form
and
your credit card.
Find out your vehicle's Carbon Footprint or Green Up your event.
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Green up your Valentine's Day
Flowers, cards, candy? GREEN up your Valentine's Day with these ideas
that both
your significant other and the environment will appreciate!
- Instead of traditional flowers for Valentine's day, give a beautiful, long-lasting plant from a local garden.
- Cook a romantic, meal using all organic ingredients from local markets. www.carolinafarmstewards.org
- Want to take your date to dinner? Think about supporting a restaurant that uses locally-grown produce.
- Around a billion valentines are sent each year globally, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. Those one billion cards laid end to end would stretch around the world 5 times! That's a lot of trees.
- NOT including cards exchanged in classrooms between children, 180 million Valentine’s Day cards are exchanged in the U.S. alone. So forget traditional paper Valentine's Day cards! Instead send an e-card that will save paper and get to your Valentine right on time.
- If you’re really splurging this year and want to get jewelry, find a jeweler who uses conflict-free diamonds, like www.brilliantearth.com. Brilliant Earth uses Canadian diamonds and recycled gold, which means their sales never support slavery, child labor, or terrorism.
- Take a green vacation with your loved one - visit our website to purchase carbon offsets for your trip.
- Send your sweetheart organic fair trade chocolates this V-day. www.equalexchange.coop
- If you want to get a really unique gift, check out Ten Thousand Villages. It's not only a socially responsible business but also eco-friendly.
- For a simple $24 tax-deductable donation, you can also give the gift of clean air with an NC GreenPower gift card! www.ncgp.org/giftcard
- Consider natural perfumes. Other fragrances are synthetic and often are made with toxic petrochemicals from crude oil.
- Take a trip to your local park, aquarium or zoo. Or better yet, make a donation to the ASPCA or your local Humane Society or animal shelter.
- If Valentine's Day is an important day for you, show a bit of extra love for the environment by carefully considering what you buy.
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FEATURED NC GreenPower sponsor
We at Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff are committed to leaving this world in a condition suitable for future generations. Because of this mindset, we offer as many “green” products as possible in an effort to reduce our impact (or carbon footprint) on the environment.
To further our commitment, this year we joined other North Carolina businesses in support of environmental initiatives such as renewable energy projects. We are proud to announce that we are a 100% Offset Sponsor of NC GreenPower. NC GreenPower is an independent, non-profit organization that receives its funding through voluntary individual and business contributions. They currently support the generation of enough renewable electricity to power more than 2,500 homes annually; and they subsidize more than 250 renewable energy projects that are producing green power right here in North Carolina. Through our corporate sponsorship, we will be purchasing green power equal to our monthly electrical consumption. You may ask, “How exactly does this benefit the environment?”
For starters, our level of sponsorship will be used to support an additional 120,000 kWh of renewable energy generation per year, having an environmental impact of:
- Equivalent traditional electricity usage to power eight average North Carolina homes for 375 days, or
- Reducing the consumption of coal by 97,200 lbs., or
- Planting 19,208 trees
Find out more about Cheap Joe's Art Stuff by visiting their website: www.cheapjoes.com
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NEW 2010 Generator map!
Ever wondered if NC GreenPower had any solar panel generators in your area? We now have an updated map available for you on our website! We plan to update it every quarter, but the listing of generators below it is updated daily, as each new agreement comes in.
(Click to view a higher resolution file.)
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