Silk Soymilk, my non-dairy breakfast staple, has brought back the Green Caps for Green Energy (TM) campaign, which offsets the electricity they use to make Silk with clean wind energy.

Simply purchase Silk Soymilk with green caps, and go to the website to enter the UPC number from your carton. Silk will sponsor 30 extra kilowatt hours of green power (enough to offset a typical home’s energy usage for a day). Plus, you’ll get a chance to win a green home makeover and other green-themed prizes.

How This Helps
Silk’s offsetting of energy consumption with wind power prevents over 16,000 tons of greenhouse gasses from entering our atmosphere.

The energy that runs our homes and businesses comes from a variety of sources including coal, nuclear and hydroelectric power. Nationally, the facilities that produce that power feed it into a large pool of energy. This pool is comprised of all types of energy like coal, water, wind, etc. Every time we turn on a light in our house or crank the air conditioner on a hot day, we drain energy from that pool. We don’t have a choice of what kind of power we drain out of the pool – we just have to take the mix that comes through the power lines. But we do have a way to choose how the energy we use gets put back into the pool.

Silk Soymilk is making sure that only 100 percent clean, pure wind energy goes back into the power pool to replace what we take from it.

Because the most common forms of energy we use today pollute our environment, replacing energy usage with clean, non-polluting methods like wind power or solar power will help ensure a cleaner, healthier environment. In addition, some energy sources, including fossil fuel and coal, won’t last forever.

By developing sustainable power options such as solar and wind power, we can ensure that our children – and their children – will have a viable power source for the future.

Benefits of Wind Power

• Wind power is clean. More wind power means less smog, toxic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
• Wind power is affordable. Many utility companies offer you the option to purchase wind-generated electricity for around 2 - 2.5 cents per kilowatt. At that price, the average household could obtain 25 percent of its electricity from wind for just $4 or $5 dollars extra per month.
• Wind power is inexhaustible. The total amount of electricity that could potentially be generated from wind power in the United States has been estimated at 10,777 billion kWh annually - three times the electricity generated in the US today.
• Wind power is domestic. The U.S. has abundant wind power right in our own backyard, like the rural areas of the Great Plains. Wind power brings jobs and income, which helps revitalize rural communities and bolsters farm incomes against bad weather.

Silk Soymilk has been a recipient of the prestigious Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, a top honor that recognizes the brand’s role in using and promoting renewable energy. Silk Soymilk has also been a proud supporter of Farm Aid since 2002.

About the Beans
Silk Soymilk supports America’s farmers and primarily uses organic soy beans in its products. In fact, it uses more than 700,000 bushels of U.S. organic soy beans annually, farmed on more than 3,000 acres of organic farmland.

Silk Soymilk uses a mixture of organic and natural, non-genetically modified soy beans. Organic soy beans are grown with traditional plant breeding and farming practices, which reduces the amount of pesticides in the air, soil, water, and most importantly, the food supply. In fact, organic soy beans actually return nutrients to the soil.

Silk Soymilk uses soy beans that when farmed; replenish the earth. Soy provides nutrients to the soil, unlike other agricultural products that deplete soil nutrients.

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