Backcountry.com Offsets Its Energy Use (read article)
Backcountry.com, an outdoor-gear retailer, has been working with Renewable Choice Energy to offset its company's energy load in pursuit of a payload of 1.5 million kilowatt hours by the end of the year, the equivalent of removing 190...

Microsoft Unveils New Boulder Data Center - April 18, 2008 (read article)
Microsoft on Thursday unveiled its new wind-powered, container-based data lab, which houses processing servers for the photorealistic 3-D city models used in the company's Virtual Earth online mapping program.
The data center also is wind-powered, officials announced, noting the purchase of wind-generated power from Boulder-based Renewable Choice Energy...

Powdr Corp to Offset Energy Usage - April 14, 2008 (read article)
Powdr Corp will work with Boulder, Colorado-based Renewable Choice Energy as its renewable energy provider. Renewable Choice Energy is an award-winning renewable energy and carbon offset provider of Green-e certified sources such as wind, biomass and small hydro. The EPA estimates that Powdr Corp's purchase of RECs will avoid over 85 million pounds of C02 emissions annually, which is equal to removing 8,539 passenger vehicles from the road or powering 6,175 average American homes for a year...

Schools Leading Energy Efforts - March 2, 2008 (read article)
Two colleges are leading the local pack on renewable energy with efforts to increase the use of wind-generated electricity.

Retailers' Products Certified Under Green-e Climate - March 2, 2008 (read article)
Green-e Climate has certified products offered by retailers 3Degrees, Bonneville Environmental Foundation, Community Energy and Renewable Choice Energy, according to the Center for Resource Solutions based in San Francisco. These products have met or exceeded Green-e Climate's standards for project verification and measurement, consumer transparency and truth-in-marketing claims, and will be granted the use of the Green-e Climate logo.

Burt's Bees Backs Offsets - March 1, 2008 (read article)
Some companies blow hot air about saving the environment. Burt's Bees is paying its employees to embrace wind energy.

Burt’s Bees Buys Wind Credits, Wants Employees To Do Same - February 13, 2008 (read article)
Burt’s Bees has purchased 3,954,000 kilowatt hours of renewable energy credits generated by wind farms. The REC purchase, made through Renewable Choice Energy, will offset 100 percent of the company’s electricity use. In addition, when employees sign up for Renewable Choice Energy’s home wind power program, the company will pay 50 percent of the employee’s first year charges as part of its employee benefits package.

A-Basin Goes 100 Percent Wind-Power - February 13, 2008 (read article)
Just in time for its annual Climate Awareness Day on Sunday, Arapahoe Basin has decided to 100 percent wind power, offsetting all of its energy use through the Renewable Choice program.