On Friday I signed up for more expensive but cleaner electricity.

By subscribing to Sterling Planet’s NY Clean Choice plan, I pay a flat fee of $10 per month (33 cents a day) to force ConEdison to buy 400kWh more power per month from clean renewable NY sources: 40% wind, 30% small hyro and 30% bioenergy from recovered methane.

Generating electricity from these sources results in no carbon dioxide emissions, no sulfur dioxide emissions, no nitrogen oxide emissions, no mercury emissions and no nuclear waste.