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Green Tag

Green Tag: A green tag or Renewable Energy Certificate (REC), represents the environmental attributes created when electricity is generated using renewable sources instead of fossil fuels such as coal, oil & natural gas. REC’s can be sold separately form their associated electricity & enable customers to "green" the electricity they consume from their retail power supplier(s).

Green

Green: concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party, United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952), an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party.

Global Warming

Global Warming: Also known as the Greenhouse Effect  most scientists believe global warming is happening right now. When too many greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide and methane are trapped in the atmosphere, the temperature on the Earth rises causing the ice at the north and south poles to melt. This raises the water level in the oceans and different places on the earth slowly get hotter or colder. If it goes on long enough, global warming could change rainforest’s to deserts and dry areas to wet ones.