CHICAGO, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- ComEd employees will celebrate Earth Day by participating in a variety of activities across Northern Illinois, including donating and planting trees in appreciation of the thousands of customers who recently enrolled in paperless billing and payment options.
ComEd employees will begin planting more than 100 oak trees donated by the company on Earth Day, April 22, at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Ill. The utility committed to donate one tree for every 100 ComEd customers who switched to e-Billing and direct debit during the month of March.
Encouraging employees and customers to volunteer at an eco-friendly event in celebration of Earth Day is part of ComEd's 12 Ways to Green campaign, launched earlier this year to raise customer awareness about energy efficiency and other environmental initiatives. The campaign is part of the company's comprehensive environmental strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lower the carbon footprint of Exelon, its subsidiaries and customers.
"ComEd and our employees are demonstrating our environmental commitment by getting out in the community and participating in Earth Day activities, and we encourage all our customers to do the same," said Anne Pramaggiore, executive vice president of Customer Operations, Regulatory and External Affairs, ComEd. "But this is just one small part of what ComEd is doing to benefit the environment. We are walking the talk with an aggressive plan to be more energy efficient and lower our own carbon footprint in everything we do. For ComEd, every day is Earth Day."
In addition to planting trees at the Morton Arboretum, ComEd is participating in a variety of other Earth Day events around the Chicagoland area:
-- Saturday, April 19, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Friends of the Park Clean up and Fair, Humboldt Park, Chicago. ComEd will feature its solar-powered popcorn-popper, and employees will provide tips to help customers reduce energy usage and save money. -- Sunday, April 20, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., District Earth Day Fair, Lincoln Square Village, Elk Grove. ComEd will feature a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) display box and employees will provide tips to help customers reduce energy usage and save money. -- Sunday, April 20, 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago. ComEd employees will celebrate the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival and hand out information to help customers reduce energy usage and save money. -- Tuesday, April 22, 8:45 a.m. - noon, Tree Planting, Morton Arboretum, Lisle. ComEd employees and arboretum staff will plant oak trees on Earth Day. -- Tuesday, April 22, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m., White Sox US Cellular Field, Chicago. ComEd's Energy Doctor and other employees will provide tips to help customers reduce energy, benefit the environment and save money. The first 300 fans will receive ComEd CARE bags that will include energy-savings tips and a free CFL. -- Saturday, April 26, noon - 2 p.m., Franklin Park District Earth Day, Franklin Park. Employees will present tips and information about using and properly recycling CFLs and discuss home energy conservation. -- Sunday, April 27, noon - 3 p.m., Vernon Area Public Library District Earth Day Fair, Lincolnshire. Employees will present tips and information about using and properly recycling CFLs and discuss home energy conservation.
To learn more about what you can do to celebrate Earth Day and help the environment, visit http://www.comedcare.com/.
Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) is a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation , one of the nation's largest electric utilities with approximately 5.4 million customers. ComEd provides service to approximately 3.8 million customers across Northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state's population.
