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"Earth Aid is helping me stay on top of my consumption. I just got an email that told me my use was way up! So it's time to start looking at what's happening at work and in my business to drive that bill and the carbon down!"Warren Brown
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Awards
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Sustainable Brands '09 New Venture Award |
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Social Matchbox Summer '09 Community Choice Award |
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Web 2.0 Expo Launch Pad People's Choice Award |
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Earth Aid Enterprises exemplifies the kind of private sector innovation necessary to tackle climate change and other environmental and economic development challenges our country faces every day |
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Acting green to save a little green--that's the theory behind a new program in the District that rewards residents if they cut back on their utility costs. The premise is simple: the more you save on your energy bills, the more coupons and discounts you earn from local businesses. Starting this week, residents can sign-up with a local start-up called Earth Aid. The company calculates your energy consumption from the past year - it uses your electric, gas, and water bills to create a base-line. Then, you get points each month based on how much you save. About 30 local businesses have signed up to partner with Earth Aid. D.C. is the first city to go live with program. |
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"I have to say, it's really genius." |
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Earth Aid doesn’t just show you charts of how much energy and water your household goes through. It offers a rewards program to encourage you to save energy. Earth Aid monitors how much electricity, water, and natural gas you use and how much you spend on these utilities. It grabs the data directly from the utilities (with your permission), and compares how much energy and water you consume to the same month a year ago. As you consume less energy and water, you get reward points which are redeemable at local businesses. |
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I know you've all heard this before — making your home more energy efficient will not only help the planet, but save you money. For those of you who want to up the ante by saving money and earning rewards for your reduction in energy use, I've got just the ticket. A few months ago, Earth Aid, a Washington, D.C.-based company, launched a rewards program to attach to its free program that tracks users' energy and water consumption. Each time a participant reduces monthly consumption, they rack up points to use at local shops. |
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Some lawmakers are trying to encourage their constituents to save energy using a new Web application called EarthAid.net. Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), for example, has partnered with the site. So has D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty. EarthAid.net is a Washington-based start-up that keeps track of how much electricity, water and natural gas you use. It works sort of like Quicken for your finances--you plug in your online utility account information and EarthAid pulls in updates from the utility companies. The free site then shows you what you're using and when. If you reduce your energy use, you get points that you can redeem for rewards and discounts from local businesses. |
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I signed up on their website and was amazed at the sheer simplicity of their system. In addition to tracking usage, the Earth Aid website gives further tips and incentives for cutting down. There are even links to tax credits and rebates to help toward the purchase of more efficient appliances. I look forward to watching my usage through the Earth Aid system and racking up points. It is startups like Earth Aid that will encourage individuals to start making reductions. People simply need those extra - and very clear - incentives to change old, inefficient, and costly habits. |
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Shreveporters now can easily track their water and energy use and, in the process, get discounts and freebies from local businesses. Earth Aid kicked off the free program Tuesday with online applications becoming available. The service is designed to track utility usage and verify savings through lower bills. Residents link their AEP-SWEPCO, CenterPoint Energy and city water accounts to the Web site, which offers tips and products to help with energy savings. Perks include oak trees, desserts and movie tickets. "It is with great pride that I join Earth Aid to bring a true benefit to the citizens of Shreveport," Mayor Cedric Glover said. |
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Think Mint.com for personal energy use. EarthAid gives people the ability to monitor their energy consumption, while at the same time providing easy tips for reducing energy, and even showing where companies have created cash rewards or other incentives for switching to more sustainable energy or water sources. |
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If you are looking for a way to do your part in reducing CO2 and wouldn't mind saving a little green in the process, EarthAid.net may be the solution consumers have been waiting for. |
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The District and Bethesda plan to partner with a downtown D.C. company that pays utility consumers back for the amount of energy they save. Starting Sept. 8, households can log on to EarthAid.net, a site founded two years ago by Earth Aid Enterprises LLC, to track their energy consumption. They would then enroll for free in a rewards program that earns them spending credits for every kilowatt-hour of electricity, cubic foot of gas and gallon of water they cut from their monthly use. |
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I've been using the program for several months now, and its been a great way to track energy use: each month, I get a statement showing me how my energy use compares to that same month the previous year (and, yep, we're saving so far!)... The Earth Aid system itself ups the ante a bit, but may be more important in the long term for providing an initial incentive for individuals and families to start exploring reduced energy use… and the many benefits it creates for both the planet and the pocketbook... I know I've been stoked to see our savings |
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Going green through energy conservation is trendy, but one new company is even giving away prizes to individuals who excel in that effort. Earthaid.net, an online service, is hoping to capitalize on both aspects of the environmentalist trend. The free program allows households to monitor energy use, and earn rewards for energy savings. |
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Earth Aid educates, rewards, monitors and reminds consumers of new trends in energy efficiency. Partnering with government energy offices and local businesses, Earth Aid offers tips on ways to save electricity, conserve water, save gas and the overall environmental benefit of being energy efficient... Innovation and new trends come from collaboration. Earth Aid is setting a new trend in allowing members to take individual responsibility for their energy consumption and savings. Investigate, research and enjoy the rewards. |
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Perks abound for environmentally conscious consumers. Take Earth Aid, a company that enables households to monitor their actual electric, gas and water utility usage, all together online. It rewards DC residents when they save energy at home. To earn rewards, residents must enroll in the free program, have Earth Aid access the energy consumption and utility charges on their monthly utility bills and realize energy savings in any given month. Earned points can then be used to take advantage of discounts and offers at dozens of local businesses, including restaurants and shops. For more information and energy-saving tips, visit www.earthaid.net. |
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DC is the first city to go live with Earth Aid's Rewards Program... This is a wonderful opportunity to earn money and to receive special rewards from local businesses like Love Cafe, Busboys & Poets, Comet Ping Pong, Local Sixteen, Live Green, Shoe Fly, and several dozen others. To introduce Earth Aid to the District, a special event will take place on September 8th. |
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While many of us buy carbon offsets and similar products from companies like Terrapass and NativeEnergy to achieve "carbon neutrality," producing and selling these credits has generally been limited to bigger players. Earth Aid Enterprises, creators of the Earth Aid Kit, would like to change that equation. A new service from the company allows Earth Aid to measure residential energy usage, and pay consumers for savings by bundling energy reductions, and selling them on the carbon credit market. |
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My ears perked up when I heard about a new local company that promises to pay you money for saving money. The premise of Earth Aid is that reductions in household energy use are valuable not only to us in the form of lower utility bills, but also potentially to companies that want to buy credits to offset their own carbon footprints. Earth Aid bundles your energy savings over the course of a year and then sells them off -- returning the profit to the consumer... |
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There's no shortage of free online services aimed at helping consumers do things like track their energy consumption... The carrots these consumers are chasing are lower utility bills and the satisfaction that comes from knowing they are lightening their footprint on the planet. But the startup Earth Aid is offering consumers a new kind of carrot: hard, cold, green cash. |
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At the end of the day, it's great to reduce your energy consumption as much as possible, regardless of the economics involved. But a service like this is sure to pique the interest of people, and possibly get more people thinking about financial benefits of conserving energy beyond savings. |
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If we were saintly as well as frugal, we would consider saving money an end in itself. But we are far from saintly. And the frugal part is still a work in progress. So our ears perked up when we heard about a new local company that promises to pay you money for saving money. |
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I just love how the site organizes my utility information. What Mint.com is to personal finance, Earth Aid is to energy consumption -- clear charts and visualizations help make sense of my household energy usage and where I might find opportunities for reductions and savings. |
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Earthaid.net gives consumers a one-stop spot online to see how much juice their homes are using. The new service helps consumers monitor their home's patterns, then pays them when they save energy... Earth Aid was the winner of the New Venture Exchange contest at 2009's Sustainable Brands conference. |
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When I heard about Earth Aid (not to be confused with Live Aid), a website service that tracks your monthly utility usage, I thought it would be a good tool for analyzing and reducing costs.... Not only do you get paid for reducing the amount of energy you use, the planet also benefits from reduced energy usage. Everybody is a winner in this plan! Also did I mention that using the service is free? |
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A double win. A free service for consumers, Earth Aid captures usage data directly from utilities, then bundles validated consumer savings which they sell on the carbon credit market. This is a unique value proposition: real data on usage, tools to help manage consumption, recommended energy- and water-saving product catalog and carbon offsets that return value through consumer incentives. The brainchild of entrepreneurs Ben Bixby and Greg O'Keeffe, earthaid.net won the New Venture Judge's Choice Award. |
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It can not only see their past usage data but also monitor their current usage over time... The carbon market has long focused primarily on businesses and large organizations, so it's exciting to see the same capabilities being brought to consumers—who, after all, have a big role to play in the fight against global warming too. Based in Washington, D.C., Earth Aid appears to be targeting US consumers with its service. Another one to partner with, emulate or be inspired by! |
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Earth Aid is basically Mint.com for household utilities. With a cleanly designed and intuitive site, Earth Aid is able to pull in data from most utility companies by accessing it through those providers front-end web portals. This circumvents tedious back-end integrations, providing users much more opportunity to have a complete perspective on energy use. |
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The genius of Earth Aid's concept is that it makes the benefits of energy efficiency tangible. Earth Aid complements the traditional incentive of a lower utility bill with actual rewards for saving energy -- not to mention, a "tips" page, which provides a comprehensive list of energy-saving measures and the associated cost and difficulty of implementation. And, of course, each of these measures can help members earn more rewards, too. |
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Imagine if you could do something good for the environment and get paid for it. Now imagine that it was simple, you could do something good, and you could get paid for it. I'm always excited to see new companies emerging that are raising awareness about reducing energy and encouraging people to get involved... But, I recently came across a new company that I think is very cool and has the potential to get people excited. Remember that imagining you did a few moments ago? Go back to it and imagine if you didn't have to imagine anymore and that this actually existed. Earth Aid has developed new technologies to allow you to change your energy habits and get paid for it... This model reminds me of Mint but for your energy - it allows you to be more conscientious about your carbon footprint and then adapt your life accordingly. |