This is the everyday guide to saving the planet one simple step at a time. The Green Book is a quick read and an easy resource providing hundreds of small choices you can make to have a big impact on the health of our planet. Here is quick preview of some tips you will find.
Office Lighting_
Turn off office lights if natural light from the sun is available. Seventeen percent of the energy used for lighting offices is wasted when offices are left vacant or office are unnecessarily turned on.
Virtual Meetings_
Save time and money by teleconferencing. Avoid the average business trip by airplane and you’ll save enough energy to conduct7000 hours of videoconferences.
Electronic Payments_
Pay your bills electronically. If every household paid its credit card bills electronically, it would save almost $2 billion a year in postage, enough to wipe out average credit card debt for 250,000 people.
Refrigerator_
This is the most energy-consuming kitchen appliance. The amount of energy saved in a year by more efficient refrigerator usage could be enough to light every house in the US for more than four months.
Car Idling_
Limit the amount of time you let your car’s engine run when parked. An idling vehicle emits twenty times more pollution than one traveling thirty-two miles per hour.
Water Bottles_
Reuse a single water bottle. The average American drinks 8 ounces of bottled water per day. Plastic is derived from petroleum, and it takes 1.5 million barrels of oil annually to satisfy our demand for bottled water.
Car Tires_
Keeping your tires fully inflated could improve your gas mileage by around 3%. The average American could save about 16 gallons of gas annually just by maintaining tire pressure.
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