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Buy renewable electricityEvery time you use electricity in your home greenhouse gases are belched out on your behalf… So buy the clean stuff!

By purchasing 100% renewable electricity you are instantly switching your electricity dollar from a traditional coal-burning power plant to one or a combination of renewable sources of electricity generation (wind, hydro, biomass and solar), and stopping approximately 10 tonnes of C02 / year (for an average home) from being released into the atmosphere.

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Your current energy provider will be able to tell you about the options they provide. Just call the number on your latest electricity bill and tell them you want to switch to 100% renewable electricity. If you are in the mood for a change, find out about the accredited renewable electricity options available from these retailers...

Electricity Provider Phone No# ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA
AGL 131 245        
Aurora Energy 131 002              
Australian Power and Gas 133 298              
Country Energy 13 23 56      
Energy Australia 13 15 02          
Ergon Energy 13 10 46              
Green Choice 131 493    
Horizon Power 1800 089 504              
Integral Energy 131 002            
Jackgreen 1300 465 225        
Momentum Energy 1300 662 778            
Neighbourhood Energy 1300 764 860              
Origin Energy 13 24 63        
Power Direct 1300 307 966        
PowerWater 1800 245 092              
Queensland Electricty 131 002              
Red Energy 1300 360 294              
Simply Energy 13 88 08            
South Australia Electricity 1300 360 294              
Synergy 13 13 53              
TruEnergy 13 34 66          
Victoria Electricity 1300 136 749              

Alternatively these retailers allow you to remain with your current electricity retailer but purchase GreenPower credits.

Electricity Provider Phone No# ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA
Ark Climate 03 9682 4200        
Carbon Planet 1300 76 99 31              
Climate Friendly 1300 CLIMATE        
COZero 1300 BE NEUTRAL      
Green Choice 131 493          

Why this action

is

important


The huge amounts of CO2 currently produced in excess of nature's ability to absorb (sequester) them are causing the global atmosphere to heat up (global warming). This in turn puts stress on all other parts of the global ecosystem, systems already under stress from human activity. Effects of this include increasing species extinction, desertification and climate change in general.

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Environmental benefit

By removing the waste currently produced to provide you with electrical power (approx 2.3 tonnes of CO2 in the atmosphere per person per annum) you will reduce your ecological footprint and slow the effect of climate change.

Wellbeing benefits

Climate change resulting from greenhouse gas emissions is projected to adversely affect the health of millions of people throughout the world with increases in malnutrition, disease, injury and deaths from heatwaves, floods, storms, fires and droughts, increases in diarrhoeal disease, increased frequency of cardio-respiratory disease due to worsening air quality and altered distribution of some disease vectors (Department of Human Services, Oct 2007).

 

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