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Save $$$$ -- Use Renewable Energy for Your Electric Power
In Maryland the energy distributor, such as BGE, allows you to select your energy source. Why not obtain your electric energy from a 100% renewable source? - either from a designated provider who uses only renewable sources for producing energy, or from a community solar group "coop." In the later case, we ask you to check with Neighborhood Sun. For the former, check out https://cleanchoiceenergy.com You may be pleasantly surprised. Their prices are compatible and sometimes even less that the standarard rate.
20 Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Here are top twenty ways we can reduce our carbon footprint based on research by Union of Concerned Scientists. See http://www.globalstewards.org/reduce-carbon-footprint.htm
Contact your legislators.
Legislators consistently indicate they want to hear from their consituents. Because of their time constraints, they will tend to ignore correspondence or calls from people not in their district. Use the tools on the right sidebar to learn your representatives' contact information.
Become more informed.
Spend 30 minutes poking around and reading Skeptical Science
Determine what is happening in your area. Pipelines (maybe not on the same scale as the XL pipeline, and compressor stations,) are being built in neighborhoods where they are unwanted. Also, contact your federal legislators and stress the need to protect federal parks and lands.
Participate.