Now, suppose that every household cut its emissions in half through basic conservation– not unreasonable considering the many examples of those who have done it succesfully– ironically, much of what we emit is from wasted energy. That leaves 6 tons of CO2 per person to be offset annually. How much would it cost to offset this with clean energy construction? At NativeEnergy.com, you can offset 6 tons for $72 per year or $6 per month. That helps finance clean energy plants (wind &/or methane recapture), which reduce the amount of CO2 generated by power plants. For $14 a month, you could offset your share of emissions and someone else’s (unreduced) share, too.

Obviously there’s a limit to how many clean utility plants we can build. At some point, theoretically, we don’t need any more– and the remaining emissions would come primarily from trucking our food and consumables across the country. But in the mean time, we will have moved this nation much closer to the necessary goal of clean power, while at the same time embedding responsible usage in the minds of Americans throughout the country.

We can’t go the distance without national and international action. But this is one issue where we can have a great deal of imapct on our own.

(This will be expanded on http://www.AsymptoticLife.com)