The Washington Post reported this weekend that "beginning next month, millions of Dominion Virginia Power Customers will probably see their electric bills rise by at least 18 percent, the largest one-time rate increase in three decades to pay for soaring fuel costs." The Post ominously adds, "And it won't stop there." And it's not just in our backyard in Virginia - USA Today reports today that across America "electricity bills are heading up. Way up. Utilities ...More »

We've just launched our latest assault on the conventional wisdom that green has got to be expensive: Earth Aid Group Buys. We're helping folks band together to force prices on helpful green products down to unprecedented lows. We're calling this new weapon a Group Buy. Here's how it works: A series of exclusive offers for select green products are made available for a period ranging from two to three weeks. (Our initial round is open until June ...More »

That renewable energy is the future is a fairly risk-less prognostication. Why? Well, sunshine and wind are free - not to mention the gush of rivers and oceans and the many other natural forces that can be tapped in any number of increasingly creative ways. In contrast, fossil fuel and even nuclear-powered plants will be faced with an increasingly intractable dilemma: they require fuel, and their fuel is available only in finite quantities. This doesn't mean ...More »

After a hiatus of a few months, the Earth Aid Blog is back - you'll see it featured on our redesigned home page soon! The resurrection of the blog is part of a massive expansion of Earth Aid's interactivity. Not only can you follow us here, but you can also befriend us on a variety of social networking platforms (including Facebook and MySpace), follow us on Twitter, see and contribute photos on Flickr, view our movies ...More »

The Washington Post today revisits the Green the Capitol project today, this time taking a more critical look at the initiative's carbon offset purchases. Several months ago, we wrote: Insofar as these funds and credits eventually find their way to supporting somebody’s new energy efficiency or renewable energy projects, all this is a good thing. We are all in this together, so it doesn’t matter who does the emissions reducing - just so long as the ...More »

What Would Oprah Do To Stop Phantom Loads? Use a Smart Strip Power Strip, of course. Parting ways with Kermit to assert that "it's easy being green", Oprah advocates using a Smart Strip Power Strip to automatically eliminate "phantom loads" associated with your computer or home entertainment center. What's a phantom load? Well, every device that you've got plugged in is always drawing electricity - whether it's a lot or a little, this continuous, low-level energy use ...More »

Happy New Year, Canadians! We wanted to make sure that our friendly neighbors to the north could also kick-off 2008 by making the green resolution that keeps itself - outfitting your house with the easy energy efficiency upgrades of the Earth Aid Kit. What better purpose to put your impressively appreciated currency towards than helping out Mother Earth while lowering your utility bills and improving your quality of life? That's what the Earth Aid Kit is designed ...More »

Thanks to the fine reporting of Shirley Siluk Gregory and associates, the Earth Aid Kit began the week featured at the top of sustainablog - a leading blog of record on all things green and innovative. Under the headline Get a Kit, Cut Your Home's Carbon Footprint, Gregory highlighted precisely the role the Earth Aid Kit is aiming to play in empowering individuals to do their part to fight global warming: When it comes to cutting ...More »

      That's right: chances are that your power company will pay you to pay them less. Why? As Thomas Friedman and others have noted, it costs your utility a bundle to build extra power plants to handle growing electricity demand. So, they'd much rather pay you use their existing electric capacity more efficiently.     Obviously, that's good for you: you pay less on your energy bill because you are using less electricity - and you get paid ...More »

It's never a dull day at the home of the Earth Aid Kit. Check out our snazzy new feature that helps you more accurately assess what sort of energy savings and emissions reduction you can expect from your Earth Aid Kit. Now you can specify how many people will be using your Earth Aid Kit and how many cars you have in your household. Our site integrates these considerations into its dynamic calculations of the impact ...More »