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Night Shift 30% to 40% of office equipment is left on at night and on weekends. |
Take the Night Off If you're company's computers are on a network and can't be shut down at night, at least turn off the monitors. |
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High Rise Energy use for office equipment is expected to rise by 500% in the next decade. 31% of electricity in the U.S. is used to run office buildings |
Be a Star at the Office And save your company cash. Participate in the EPA's Energy Star program and Green Lights program. |
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What a Waste Trash is our biggest product. Packaging consumes 40% of the paper used in Germany and 1/4 of the plastics used in the U.S. |
Buy Less And think before you buy. Since 1/5 of our waste is from packaging, avoid buying overpackaged items, including food. |
CARS |
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Cars are Thirsty A quarter of all oil goes to fuel passenger cars. |
Car Pool to Work If each commuting car carried one more person, we'd save 18 million gallons of gas everyday |
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27 Tons For each new car made, we create 27 tons of waste. |
Buy Used If you have to buy a car, consider a used one instead. Also remember to buy the most fuel-efficient car in its class. |
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Why is this Running? Do you leave your car running when you're at work? Do you leave the shower on when you're not using it? |
Turn It Off When you're done looking at this site, turn off your computer. |
FOOD |
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Exterminators Of the 28 commonly used pesticides, at least 23 are carcinogenic. |
Think Organic Avoid using chemical pesticides on your lawn and around the house. Also buy organic food, Organic Farming Research Foundation. |
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Chicken Feed 36% of the world's grain supply goes to feeding livestock and poultry. |
Eat Less Meat By eating 2 fewer meat dishes a week, the savings in grain could feed 225 million people every year. |
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Food Drive The typical U.S. meal travels 1,250 miles from farm to plate. |
Buy Local Buy fresh, local produce and products as often as possible. Seek out and support local farmer's markets. |
HOUSE |
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Top of the World The industrialized countries generate 75% of the world's pollutants and waste. |
Rethink Purchases Do I really need this item?How long will it last?Can it be recycled?Could I borrow or rent it? |
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That Yard of Yours Uses an amazing amount of resources. |
Think Local Plant native wildflowers, shrubs and grasses. They require less watering and attract birds to your yard. |
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Lights Burning The electricity used to keep our lights burning creates 39 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year |
Light Switch Replace your current lightbulbs with compact flourescent lightbulbs (CFLs). One CFL will keep a half-ton of CO2 out of the air over its life. |
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Are You Average? Are you an average American? If so, you're throwing away 80% more than folks in 1960 did. |
Stop Junk Mail Write to:Mail Preference Service P.O. Box 9008Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008 |
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Big Drip 35% of all household water goes to tending yards. |
H2Only Water in the evening or early morning to avoid excessive evaporation and it's better for your lawn. |
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Lawn Clipping A lawn mower can pollute more than a used car. Running one for an hour produces the same emissions as driving a used car 50 miles. |
Push It Use a push mower, or an electric one, for zero emissions. |
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Average Waste Produced Per Person Every Day Los Angeles (8.9 lbs.), Chicago (5.1 lbs), New York (4.0 lbs), Tokyo (3.1 lbs), Paris (2.1 lbs), Toronto (2.4 lbs) |
Recycle More Americans currently only recycle about 10% of their waste. Start today. |
TRANSPORTATION |
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Cars are Choking Us Air pollution has led to a 79% increase in the number of children with asthma. |
Get a Tune Up When just 1% of car owners get a tune up, nearly a billion pounds of carbon dioxide are kept out of the atmosphere. |
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It's Getting Warm The 450 million vehicles on the road today account for 1/2 of the world's total consumption & generate nearly 1/5 of greenhouse gas emissions. |
Just Charge It You could get one of those cool new electric cars. Zero emission cars, what an idea. Visit edisoncars.com. |