RECs 101
RECs, or renewable energy certificates, are how major corporations claim to run on clean energy without necessarily using any. The mechanism is simple: buy a certificate proving that somewhere, at some point, someone generated one megawatt-hour of renewable electricity. Doesn't…
We were told to
calm down.
We respectfully decline.
There's a version of sustainability content that asks you to feel good about switching to bamboo toothbrushes while corporations buy paper certificates that let them keep burning coal. That's not what this is.
The original Satanic Panic was a moral hysteria about a threat that didn't exist. We named ourselves after it because the inversion is the point: the threat is real, and nobody's panicking enough.
This is a blog about greenwashing — how it works, who benefits, and what's actually worth your time and money. Written by someone who works inside the sustainability industry and knows exactly how the sausage gets made.
"Satanic Panic Organics exists because the gap between what companies say and what they actually do has gotten so wide it deserves its own zip code."
— Seraphina Graves, Founder