Want an easy way to help support clean energy? Go into your local grocery store and pick up a carton of Silk Soymilk with a green cap. While enjoying the contents of your carton, go to the Silk Green Caps website and enter the number you find on the cap. For each number you enter, Silk will donate 30 killowatt-hours of green tags to the national green power grid — enough energy to power the average home for a day.

With its Green Caps for Green Energy program, Silk Soymilk not only markets its products as greener than the competition, the company also provides a very simple way for consumers to support green power; many people like the thought of renewable energy, but have problems finding a way to help advance it in their day-to-day lives.

 

Silk Soymilk has partnered with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation to handle consumer contributions. Bonneville helps to ensure that the funds the Green Caps for Green Energy program generates go directly to wind farms across the U.S. They've helped fund the Gray County Wind Project in Kansas, the Blue Canyon Wind Project in Oklahoma, the Edgeley/Kulum Wind Energy Center in North Dakota and the White Creek Wind Project in Washington.

"Over the past two years, Silk has successfully engaged several hundred thousand individuals across the U.S. to take action and show their support for wind energy," said Patrick Nye, the Vice President of Green Tags for the Bonneville Environmental Foundation "In terms of consumer response, the Silk Green Caps for Green Energy program competes among the most successful utility green power programs in the nation."

In just the last two months, Silk has passed its goal to offset power to 200,000 homes a day, and is encouraging consumers to keep the effort rolling. To enhance the Green Caps for Green Energy program, Silk has developed a toolkit — available through the Green Caps website — to help consumers further support renewable energy. The very informative site features a community where members can share tips on going green and enter to win a Green Home Makeover.

Silk Soymilk offsets 100 percent of the electricity it uses to produce its products through purchases of wind energy, and estimates that since 2003, the company's renewable energy purchases equal planting 22,000 acres of trees annually. Silk Soymilk has been in business since 1996 and distributes products to major supermarket chains.

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