Green Houston

TerraPass has a nice profile of GreenDimes on their blog. Thought I’d profile both companies for you. Both have a lot to offer consumers in ways to help the environment. TerraPass offers various “passes” that offset carbon emissions.

The first step you can take to fight global warming is to reduce your carbon footprint through conservation. Drive less. Turn down the thermostat. Buy locally produced goods.

Then use TerraPass to reduce your carbon footprint all the way to zero.

When you buy a TerraPass, your money funds renewable energy projects such as wind farms. These projects result in verified reductions in greenhouse gas pollution. And these reductions counterbalance your own emissions.

Basically by combining your own efforts with a TerraPass, their goal is to get your “carbon footprint” down to zero. They have multiple options for home, road, and flight, so check it out.

GreenDimes stops your junk mail, plain and simple. Buy a pass, and GreenDimes will take you and your household off of mailing lists for catalogs, credit card offers, and more. On top of that, they’ll plant a tree for you every month that you are a member.

Unbelievably, we chop down 100,000,000 trees and waste 28 billion gallons of water EVERY YEAR producing this stuff. Most of this goes straight to the trash or recycling bin.

For $4 a month, GreenDimes will reduce the marketing at your home, help you maintain your privacy and plant a bunch of trees on your behalf.

I joined less than two months ago, and I’ve already received notifications of stopped catalogs…it’s great, not too expensive, and it’s good for the environment.

Happy Planet Saving!