Green Dimes

As a radical moderate, I'm very much in support of environmental protection, but feel the solutions need to be both useful and reasonable. For this reason I cheer the recent focus on Hybrid and electric vehicles that are still relatively normal and fun to drive, focused on a "moderate" improvement in efficiency without giving up all the comforts of modern engineering. Also for this reason, I am highly skeptical of the fad of "carbon-neutral". As in, "Sure, I live in a 60,000 square-foot house with a heated outdoor poor, but I planted some trees in Brazil, so its cool now." Not that I'm against trees, in fact I like them quite a bit. But really it just seems like a salve for liberal guilt, and a colossal waste of money and resources that should be spent on smart conservation.

Green Dimes certainly seems far too good to be true. But being paid (modestly) or paying a slight amount to not receive something you never wanted is too good an offer not to at least try. The short version: They monitor junk mail to your address and either give you the information you need to opt-out or (for a fee) opt out for you. They also screen catalogs and such so the few you want can get through. Basic signup is free.