Climate & Nature...

Looking for a way to make your cell phone a little bit greener? Best Buy has an idea -- visit one of their stores to buy wind-power energy credits to offset your phone's electricity use.

The program, called Green Your Phone, offers $10 enewable energy cards that offset the electricity use of two cell phones for two years (the average lifespan of a phone). The cards are loaded with 500 kilowatt hours of certified renewable energy credits (RECs), and purchases support the development of wind power projects in Kansas, Idaho, Wyoming and Minnesota.

The RECs guarantee that a specified amount of electricity is added to the national power grid with wind power or other renewable energy sources.

The "Green Your Phone" cards also include two “Offset with Wind Power” decals, so you can attach them to your phones and show off what you're doing to help save the environment.

The Green Your Phone program was created by a company called Renewable Choice Energy, a supplier of RECs and carbon offsets to both organizations and individuals.

Green Your Phone cards are available now in 1,000 Best Buy stores around the country, and online at their web site. (I hope they just give you the credits instead of mailing you the card, though...)