Green Houston

Stop Global Warming is going on a college tour, with two stops in Texas. Houston isn’t on the agenda, but Dallas and College Station are. Led by Laurie David and Sheryl Crow, this tour is targeting companies like TXU, a key company in the push to add more dirty coal-burning power plants. Might be worth the 90-minute drive to Aggieland to take part.

The multi-city tour will begin on Monday, April 9th in Dallas, Texas, where the duo plan to shine a harsh CFL light on the Dallas-based TXU Corporation, which is trying to fast track 11 dirty coal burning power plants. Texas already dumps more CO2 into the atmosphere than any other state in the nation and TXU’s plan would more than double that.

The activist & entertainer will visit 12 cities across the Southeastern United States in a bio-diesel bus to motivate college students to become part of the movement to stop global warming and demand solutions from themselves, their schools and their country.

The multi-city tour will continue on to select cities including: College Station, TX; Baton Rouge, LA; New Orleans, LA; Birmingham, AL; Auburn, AL; Gainesville, FL; Atlanta, GA; Charlottesville, VA; Nashville, TN; Chapel Hill, NC; College Park, MD and Washington, DC.

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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!

Will Steger’s Global Warming 101…check it out.

Venture out virtually on a polar expedition with environmentalist Will Steger and his team to see global warming in action.

Starting February 8, 2007, this group of educators and explorers will begin a 1200-mile, four-month dogsled journey across Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic.

You can be with them every mush of the way by following along online. Trek through trails and paths, over glaciers and ice caps, across frozen rivers and icy seas to see how things are heating up on the planet:

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