Welcome to the Greener Life, Georgia
When you use natural gas to warm up your home, heat your shower, or cook, you add some greenhouse gases (GHGs) to the environment. With GNG’s Greener Life program, you can help protect the environment by offsetting those greenhouse gases and making your natural gas usage carbon neutral.
Greener Life is an optional service from Georgia Natural Gas® that helps people like you do their part for the environment for a small monthly fee. When you join Greener Life, GNG will calculate the amount of GHGs your natural gas usage releases into the atmosphere and will purchase and retire carbon offsets to balance the impact of those emissions. In this way, you can feel good that your natural gas usage will be carbon neutral.
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Let's do a ton of good.
By participating in GNG’s Greener Life program, you’ll be taking a big step to protect the environment. You can also be proud that your natural gas usage is carbon neutral.
Shrink your carbon footprint by making your gas usage carbon neutral.
Now enhanced with Certified Low Emissions gas.
Get your first 12 months of Greener Life for FREE when you sign up.*
Plus receive a 5¢ per therm reward on fixed and variable rate plans or a $2.50 per month reward on flat bill plans.*
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*Greener Life service charge of $4.99/mo for residential customers, or $9.99/mo for commercial customers, applies after the expiration of the 12-month period.
Get Greener Life® FREE for a yearand save*
*Greener Life service charge of $4.99/mo for residential customers, or $9.99/mo for commercial customers, applies after the expiration of the 12-month period.
Where is Greener Life helping?
MAINE
Allagash Headwaters
Allagash Headwaters Forestry Project is located on approximately 14,500 acres in the industrial forests of northern Maine. This project promotes more sustainable harvesting practices, leading to fewer disturbances on the landscape, increased diversity of forest makeup and health, accelerated carbon sequestration, and improved habitat protection for species of concern, such as the Canada Lynx and the Rusty Blackbird.
American Carbon Registry
GEORGIA
Wolf Creek Landfill
Landfill gas capture and combustion projects like Wolf Creek Landfill provide significant environmental benefits through the voluntary capture of methane gas produced by the landfill and conversion of the gas to green energy for the local power grid.
Climate Action Reserve
ILLINOIS
HFC Reclamation
Hudson Technology’s HFC Reclamation Project is a voluntary carbon offset project that decreases demand for the creation of new hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Hudson Technology purchases recovered refrigerants (HFCs) from contractors and wholesale companies around the US, processes and purifies them at the Champaign, IL facility, and repurposes them for use in HVAC equipment around the US.
American Carbon Registry
Holding Ourselves to a Higher Standard
We believe it is important to do our part to preserve and protect the environment. We also believe it is essential we do that in an honest, transparent way.
We know that all of this can be confusing. A Carbon Offset? Greenhouse gases? CO2e? That’s why we’ve gone an extra step to assure you that we are fully delivering on our promises. It’s why we are proud that our Greener Life program has been certified by Green-e® Climate, the leading independent certification program for carbon offsets sold in the voluntary market. The Green-e® Climate logo provides a way to identify products that meet the program’s high environmental and consumer protection standards. For more information on Green-e Climate certification requirements, or to find certified products, visit www.green-e.org/climate or email climate@green-e.org.
Greener Life Product Mix Label
Type: Forest Carbon
Certification: American Carbon Registry
Location: ME, USA
% of Product: 5%
Quantities: 15,000
Type: Landfill Gas Capture/Combustion
Certification: Climate Action Reserve
Location: GA, USA
% of Product: 10%
Quantities: 80,000
Type: Industrial Process Emissions
Certification: American Carbon Registry
Location: IL, USA
% of Product: 85%
Quantities: 257,982
Per the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Calculator, each therm of natural gas results in 0.0053 metric tons of CO2.
The Carbon Offset Content Label represents the mix of offsets we have contracted to provide. Actual percentages of greenhouse gases emissions reductions may vary by a small amount. In the case of significant variance, GNG is obligated to provide you with a more accurate historical disclosure.
Visit a list of our projects here: https://www.gng.com/GreenerLife/projects.
Greener Life is Green-e Climate certified and meets the environmental and consumer-protection standards for greenhouse gas emissions reductions (carbon offsets) set forth by the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions. Learn more at www.green-e.org.
Green-e Climate is an independent certification program for greenhouse gas emission reductions (carbon offsets) sold in the voluntary market. The Green-e Climate logo identifies carbon offsets that meet the program's high environmental and consumer-protection standards. For more information on Green-e Climate certification requirements, visit www.green-e.org or email climate@green-e.org.
Greener Life is now enhanced with Certified Low Emissions gas. Greener Life customers like you are already making the natural gas usage in their homes carbon neutral. But now, you have another reason to feel better about your carbon footprint. With the benefits of Certified Low Emissions gas, you are reducing your carbon footprint where the gas is produced, too. GNG takes our environmental stewardship seriously. That’s why we’re proud to add this new benefit to our Greener Life program at no additional cost to you.
What is Certified Low Emissions gas?
Certified Low Emissions natural gas is responsibly sourced from companies who use low emissions processes to produce natural gas. Certified natural gas producers have their facilities audited by independent experts who make sure producers’ methane emissions are below specified levels and that they use industry best practices to minimize methane leakage and limit environmental impact.
Georgia Natural Gas partners with MiQ, a not-for-profit organization that is one of the leading certifiers of natural gas. MiQ’s Methane Standard has been adopted by some of the world’s biggest natural gas producers. To determine the methane emissions performance of facilities where natural gas is produced, MiQ uses a grading method that is transparent, robust and based on data. Independent auditors perform assessments of producer facilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Carbon offsets are certificates created by projects that reduce, avoid, or destroy greenhouse gases. Project owners can sell these offset certificates to expand their projects or create new ones. Each carbon offset purchased funds the reduction or elimination of one metric ton (2,204 pounds) of carbon dioxide-equivalent gases (CO2e).
1 carbon offset equals the removal or capture of 1 metric ton of CO2e from the atmosphere. Because different chemicals have different impacts on warming, CO2e is used as the standard measurement for greenhouse gases.
Natural Gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel, but when it is burned, it still releases some greenhouse gases (GHGs). In fact, the average Georgia Natural Gas customer contributes more than 3 tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each year from their natural gas usage.
Even when we do a lot to reduce our carbon footprint, most of us cannot reduce it to zero. By choosing GNG's Greener Life program, you can feel good that you've made your natural gas usage carbon neutral.
What are ways to reduce my carbon footprint?
My average annual therm usage
Metric Tons
3.71
When you participate in the Greener Life program, GNG will calculate the amount of greenhouse gases you release based on your natural gas usage each month. Then we will retire an equal amount of carbon offsets on your behalf. The greenhouse gas emissions being offset by this service are those associated with the combustion of natural gas at the point of consumption only, and do not include lifecycle emissions that occur during extraction, production, or delivery.
Retiring a carbon offset on your behalf means that you are the only person that can claim the environmental benefit from that offset.
The more people who join Greener Life, the more carbon offsets GNG will purchase and retire. This will contribute to similar projects being developed, which leads to more greenhouse gases being removed from the atmosphere.
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The greenhouse gas emissions being offset by this Greener Life service are those associated with the combustion of natural gas at the point of consumption only, and do not include lifecycle emissions that occur during extraction, production, or delivery.
*Twelve months of free Greener Life and line-item reward available only to qualified customers who enroll in Greener Life between 04/05/2026 and 05/04/2026. $.05/therm line-item reward for fixed price plans and variable price plans, or $2.50/month line-item reward for flat bill plans available for a total of 12 consecutive months, provided the customer remains enrolled in the Greener Life program. Customer will receive a $4.99 monthly bill credit for a maximum of 12 consecutive months to offset the Greener Life Signature Service charge. After the expiration of the 12-month period, the Greener Life Signature Service charge will apply, and GNG will no longer apply the $4.99 bill credit.
†Greener Life customers used 77,858,616 therms of natural gas in the aggregate during the period from 09/29/2019 until 03/17/2026. GNG retired an equivalent number of pounds of carbon equivalent (CO2e) offsets. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides a greenhouse gas equivalencies calculator to convert greenhouse gas emission numbers into different types of equivalent units. GNG uses similar calculations to convert the volume of CO2e used by Greener Life customers to the number pounds of CO2e offsets retired. For approximations, go to the Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator page for more information.
