{"id":1874,"date":"2019-09-25T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2019-09-25T20:35:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T20:35:46","slug":"easy-ways-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint-reforest-your-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/easy-ways-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint-reforest-your-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Super Easy Ways To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint & Reforest Your Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I generally think it’s a bad idea to assume that your government is going to solve the issues of pollution, deforestation, and CO2 production. There’s just a possibility they’ll never do it. That’s why it’s really important that individuals take it upon themselves to be the change they want to see.<\/p>\n

Where’s that quote from again? Oh yeah, this guy:<\/p>\n

\"Mahatma<\/p>\n

There are two things I did this year to get me to move in this direction.<\/p>\n

1. I switched my electrical power company<\/h2>\n

My family and I have an interesting housing situation. We co-own a home with another family member and we rent a home. Both dwellings can’t have solar panels installed on them<\/strong>. For the one we co-own, the homeowners association will not permit us to put solar on the roof. And for the rental, well, we don’t have permission because we don’t own the building.<\/p>\n

I started searching for a solution. Should I put solar panels in the back yard of the rental and have my brother (who’s an electrician) rig up some kind of power inverter system? Southern California Edison probably doesn’t want me doing that, and my landlord probably doesn’t want me doing that either.<\/p>\n

Eventually, I found out about Arcadia Power<\/a>. Basically, you buy power through them and they sell you renewable energy credits. That means I’m buying my power from renewable energy providers from across the country. The entire renewable energy market (from what I understand) sells power – or maybe trades power – using these things called renewable energy credits. When they produce a bunch of power on a given day, that power is worth so many renewable energy credits (RECs). When I buy power from Arcadia power, I’m exchanging money for RECs – meaning, I’m purchasing renewable power that has been created and associated with a certain amount of RECs.<\/p>\n