sustainable midwest
An attempt to pass on info that we come across promoting a healthier, more sustainable way of living.Archive for October 22, 2007
Green Power Option from Indianapolis Power & Light
Sorry, since I’m living in Indianapolis, there will be times where my posts will be Indy-centric.
That being said, I know many people already know this, but I wanted to go ahead and post some quick info about Indianapolis Power & Light’s Green Power Option for Renewable Energy. You can specify how much of your power you’d like to receive from clean, renewable energy sources – 100%, 50%, 25% or 10%. Cost is only $0.001913 per kilowatt-hour. Not even half a penny per kilowatt-hour. To give you some perspective, if your power bill is typically $50/mo, for 10% green you’d only pay an additional 16¢; for 25% green, only an additional 39¢; for 50% green an additional 78¢; and for 100% renewable power, you’d only be paying an additional $1.56. That’s not bad for doing a lot to reduce your carbon imprint! Check out the IPALCO Green Power Option for Renewable Energy web page that offers details along with links to enrollment, FAQs and a Cost Estimator.
first posts…
Are always the most awkward. So, the reason for starting this blog is to consolidate the information and notes I commonly refer to that are all piled on scrap pieces of paper, random magazine and newspaper tear-outs, etc. After having just moved back to the Midwest from Atlanta, I became pretty frustrated with how hard it was to get information about recycling and other resources up here. All the information seemed scattered or incomplete. Not that I’m going to be a master at offering complete info, but I’m hoping to at least offer more than a bunch of links – half of which may or may not work on any given day and most likely don’t offer pertinent info such as hours of operation. Run on sentences. Get used to them. I’m not much of a writer. Then again, this is mostly to become a compilation – not prose.
