We've pulled together a number of our previous publications and Web resources that can help you with your climate footprint. Enjoy perusing these back issues of Real Money, Real Green, the Co-op America Quarterly and the Green American, and thanks for all you do for people and the planet.
MARCH/APRIL 2007 Real Money, Carbon Offsets Demystified
When you’re looking to lower your carbon footprint by offsetting the carbon dioxide emissions from your air travel, automobile, or home energy use, you have a range of choices. Our editors reviewed the options and show you which available offsets are good, better, and best. Read more »
MAY/JUNE 2006 Real Money, Try a Solar Water Heater
This article from Real Money shows how, by installing a solar water heater, you'll get the hot water your household needs, while saving money and energy and reducing coal use. Read more >>
MARCH/APRIL 2006 Real Money, Climate Change and Your Power Company
This Real Money article tells you how you can help pressure coal companies to stop constructing new plants and invest in a green energy future. Read more >>
MARCH/APRIL 2005 Real Money, Tax Credits for Cleaner Energy
Learn from this Real Money article about the available tax breaks you can get by installing renewable energy systems like solar panels or solar hot water heaters. Read more >>
A Home Energy Revolution
Read the inspiring story of how Mike and Catherine Tidwell get nearly all of their home's energy from renewable sources--at a cost of only $40 a month, all year round. Read more >>
Our Green American archives:
CAQ69, Forests: Situation Critical (download as pdf)
Read our Summer 2006 issue to find ways you can help preserve the world's forests--which absorb millions of tons of greenhouse gases.
CAQ66, The Promise of the Solar Future (download as pdf)
The Summer 2005 issue shows you how individuals, businesses, and communites are takeing advantage of solar power, and walks you through how to go solar at home.
CAQ64, Sustainable Transportation (download as pdf)
Read our Fall 2004 issue for ideas and resouces on greening your transporation, to reduce global warming emissions related to driving and flying.
CAQ62, Shareholders in Action (download as pdf)
Use our Spring 2004 issue to learn how to use your shareholder power to pressure companies to become more environmentally responsible and curb their climate-changing emissions.
Co-op America's Solar Catalyst Group
Our Solar Catalyst program brings together business, government, investors, labor, environmental and community groups, and individuals working to catalyze a renewable energy future by creating a mass market for solar photovoltaics. Here you can download our SHINE report, detailing our ambitious, step-by-step plan for bringing solar to scale and making it affordable worldwide.
