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WINE SAVES PLANET! You can help!

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Who knew wine could get even better than it is now: all delicious and helpful in awkward social situations?! Through a new Facebook application, users can make wineries transfer to 100% renewable energy for free. Village Green Energy, along with a handful of CA wineries, has launched a Facebook application it’s calling Green My Vino, which will allow users to give “gifts” of renewably generated electricity to each other; each time they hit certain milestones, a winery in Northern California permanently switches its energy consumption to use electricity from renewable sources like wind, geothermal or solar.

GET THE APPLICATION AT:

VillageGreenEnergy.com/facebook.

This looks like a pretty awesome initiative. Now, drinking wine will only harm your liver, not the planet.

Add the app! Oh by the way, the CEO of Village Green Energy is a guy named Michael Jackson. The people who run it are just very smart, enthusiastic socially responsible young people who wanted to make a difference, and this is just one of many socially responsible initiatives created by people just like you and me.
  • added August 07, 2008
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30 responses // WINE SAVES PLANET! You can help!

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    wine and renewable energy..that's a winning combo!

    sgirgis72
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    wow, using Facebook to actually create positive change, sweet.

    mjacks
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    I like wine... I could go for saving the planet in the meantime....

    Hmmmm.... and its free? Wow!

    cashcowmoo
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    i have sent my friends over 200 minutes of renewable energy already!

    jparrillo
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    dammit! planet, shmanet... where is the facebook app that will get me all boozy and emotional?

    joejoejoejoejoe
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    zonino for green vino!

    800lbgorrilla
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    Cheers to that!

    jmuir22
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    To paraphrase Napolean Dynamite, this is a "Flippin' Sweet" project!!!!

    troutfriend
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    it's a great marketing idea use the mostly viewed websites.....good thinking guys.

    x732krewx
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    Does anyone know if Al Gore has a Facebook account? I want to be his friend. I like having friends.

    jmuir22
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    The program buys the equivalent of energy use from renewable resources and it is a really great marketing tool. This is the part I don't like:

    Allowing Green My Vino access will let it pull your profile information, photos, your friends' info, and other content that it requires to work.

    sublimeuniverse
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    a good reason to get tanked.

    ohhellsno
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    2008...a good year ;)

    Mooshuspice
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    Times like this I feel patriotic... No not the US, my real home country...California! Snobby NorCal wine growers can save the world! (joke).

    Dmitri_Molotov
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    I'm not on facebook, but I'll support their transitions another way: by drinking the wine.

    majormajor
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    does wild irish rose count?.......hmmmm?

    marlaynek
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    i love wine.

    elspeth
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    If you love wine, and want to go green, don't buy boxed wine. The renewable cork industry is going out of business from synthetic corks. Now, all the cork forests of france are being destroyed for homes and such. Save a tree, buy a bottle with a real cork in it.

    good_stuff
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    I love it!

    oreo4sho
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    Brilliant idea!!

    HeroMAY
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    Napa is the BEST! Will have to plan a little trip to check out some of these soon to be green wineries.
    Hmm, but do they still use pesticides on their land?
    Is there a facebook app that will help change that?

    vavavicky
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    wow this is actually really cool

    maxwithxxx
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    youre gonna love it

    hcobb
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    Wow!!! This is swwweeeeeeeeet!

    I always new the day would come when my alcoholism would solve the climate crisis....

    Americaaaaa.... F YEA!!!

    SpankinIt
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    I'm adding it right now

    jimenagamio
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