Southern Sierran
COMMITTEE OFFERS YOU AN EASY WAY TO HELP SLOW GLOBAL WARMING

BY KATHY SEAL

Replace dirty brown power with clean energy with the LADWP Green Power Program. PHOTO BY DARRELL CLARKE

Would you like to help slow global warming --- easily? And without having to drive somewhere in your car?

If so, you're invited to help our Global Warming and Energy Committee's effort to build up Green Power in Los Angeles.

Here's how it works : all you have to do: knock on the door or pick up your phone, and ask your friends, neighbors or family members if they would like to join you in signing up for the LA Department of Water and Power's Green Power program.

Anyone who's a DWP customer can sign up for Green Power. That means you can help cool the planet by signing up five people you know. Just knock on your their door, call them on the phone, or send them an email. Ask them to fill out a form at https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/rebates/GreenPowerRes.ladwp?act=init&contentId=LADWP_GRNPWRRES_SCID. Or they can call 1-800-DIAL-DWP (800-342-5397) and they'll mail you the form.

After signing up, they'll pay a three cents per kilowatt hour premium into a fund that then buys renewable energy for DWP customers. This green power goes into the overall power mix, replacing dirty brown power. You can pay the premium on from 20% to 100% of the electricity you buy from DWP. So if you agree to pay the premium on 20% and use 1000 kWh over two months, you'll pay $6.

As soon as you get someone to sign up, email us at globalwarmingaction@gmail.com to let us know. We'll register the sign-up(s) on our "Cool LA" thermometer gauge.

Would you like to do even more?

Come with us to the next DWP Board of Commissioners meeting to press for improvements to the Green Power program (Send us an email at globalwarmingaction@gmail.com and we'll notify you of that date.)

Email us at globalwarmingaction@gmail.com with your comments, questions, and to receive email notice of our meetings and activities.

Come to our next Angeles Chapter Global Warming & Energy Committee meeting on June 11th --- in person or by phone (if you have a headset, you can attend while doing the dishes!). See http://angeles.sierraclub.org/energy for meeting info.

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