Why Arcadia? Because they’ve come up with a unique way to connect you to renewable energy that doesn’t cost you a dime.

Watch this quick video.

Here’s How It Will Work for You

⇒ Go to Arcadia’s website and plug in your zip code.

⇒ Then, create a FREE, secure account by providing the name of your local utility, your account number, and how you prefer to pay for your electricity: by credit card or debit from your checking account.

Voilá! You have an account.

Beginning with your next billing cycle, your bill will be paid to the utility via Arcadia.

It will not cost you any more money to have Arcadia pay your bill than if you were paying it directly.

Meanwhile, Arcadia will begin monitoring how much electricity you use each month. Here’s why that’s a good thing:

For each kilowatt-hour (kWh) you use, Arcadia buys something called a Renewable Energy Certificate, or REC.

The REC does two things:

1. It claims on your behalf a kWh of clean power that’s been generated by a wind turbine.
2. It infuses that wind facility with more investment income so it can create more wind power, which enables your utility to use less coal and oil.

Isn’t that brilliant?

In all likelihood, the electricity you’re using now has been generated by a utility that relies on coal or oil, the fossil fuels that are responsible for climate change and dirty air.

This short video makes it clear why that’s so unhealthy for you, your kids and the world.

When you pay your bill through Arcadia, you are basically helping to build more windmills and make more wind power available to your utility grid, but at no cost to you.

Ultimately, the goal is that NONE of your power will be generated by fossil fuels and ALL of it will come from clean energy.

Germany is already aiming for that target:

You can help the U.S. become a renewable energy power, too, just by letting Arcadia buy RECs based on how much power you use.

(You don’t have to cut back on your electricity use to work with Arcadia, though of course, that’s a good idea. Here’s how you can do that.)

All You Have to Do Is Sign Up for a Free Green Energy Account. Arcadia Will Do the Rest.

Could anything be simpler?

FREE CLEAN ENERGY BONUS!!!

Get your friends to sign up, too, and save even more.

You’ll earn up to $25 off your actual bill for each person you refer to Arcadia power. There is no limit to how much you can earn.

I usually don’t make such a hard pitch here on BigGreenPurse.com. But I completely and totally believe that we all need to shift to clean energy if we’re going to stop climate change and reduce the air pollution that is making so many of us sick. I want to live in a healthier greener world, and shifting to clean energy is the way to do it.

Sign up for Arcadia Power today. Thanks!

NOTE: I have partnered with Arcadia Power because it is essential to shift from coal and oil to wind and solar. Arcadia’s approach is one of the best I’ve seen to make it easy for you to do that. All editorial opinions remain my own.

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Not only did Mr. Obama push for “building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country,” but he endorsed “opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development” and “continued investment in...clean coal technologies.”

Does the President actually believe offshore oil drilling makes sense and that coal and nuclear can be safe, healthy and non-polluting? Or, as the country’s uber politician, is he trying to maintain a balancing act in order to avoid alienating members of Congress who are beholden to the fossil fuel and nuclear industries for their campaign contributions?

If it’s the latter, we should all remind the President of his campaign promise to rid the nation of “politics as usual.” If it’s the former, President Obama’s science, environmental and health advisors need to make a beeline to the Oval Office so they can brief their boss on the industries he’s touting. Why?

*  Clean coal and nuclear are myths, the products of aggressive industry public relations far more than reality.  Says analyst Richard Coniff, “Clean” is not a word that normally leaps to mind for a commodity some spoilsports associate with … acid rain, black lung, lung cancer, asthma, mercury contamination, and, of course, global warming. Even if the carbon is captured and sequestered or impurities are “scrubbed” away, the pollutants that result from burning coal never truly disappear.”

* The very act of mining coal destroys the environment.  Mountaintop removal mining is decimating both the natural and human landscape of Appalachia, for example.

* Offshore oil drilling pollutes the oceans, threatens marine animals and plants, and trashes beaches and coastlines.

As for nuclear energy, I have a hard time imagining any scenario that can lump “radioactive waste” and “clean” in the same sentence. There’s a reason no state wants to become a repository for the waste from nuclear power plants: they can’t guarantee it won’t eventually make its way into our air, water, and soil — or be stolen by terrorists and converted into a bomb.

Now, to be fair, the president did strongly endorse renewable energy:

“We know the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21st century,” he said, noting that “Thanks to our recovery plan, we will double this nation’s supply of renewable energy in the next three years.”

I applaud the Administration’s commitment to “put Americans to work making our homes and buildings more efficient so that we can save billions of dollars on our energy bill.” Likewise, I support his decision to “invest fifteen billion dollars a year to develop technologies like wind power and solar power… and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks built right here in America.”

But rather than link these winning strategies to losers like coal, oil and nuclear, why not expand his vision for our future to include cost-effective and non-polluting options like mass transit, telecommuting, and stricter building standards to reduce energy demand from space heating and lighting?

If we want an energy future we can believe in, that future cannot continue to depend on fossil fuels and nuclear energy.

President Obama said it best: “If we confront without fear the challenges of our time and summon that enduring spirit of an America that does not quit, then someday years from now our children can tell their children that this was the time when we performed, in the words that are carved into this very chamber, “something worthy to be remembered.”

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