Ten Quick and Easy Ways to decrease your Carbon Output this year:
- Drive smarter – keep your tires properly inflated, go the speed limit, drive less and walk more!
- Buy local and organic – the average American meal travels 1,500 miles from the farm to the plate. Be more conscious of where your food comes from and you can pollute less at dinner time.
- Call your electric company and switch over to green power! Most utility companies offer renewable energy options for just a few dollars more a month.
- Replace incandescent light bulbs w/ compact fluorescent bulbs. Compact fluorescents produce the same amount of light as normal bulbs, but use about a quarter of the electricity and last ten times as long!
- Save energy at home! Caulk and weather strip doorways and windows. Keep your thermostat a few degrees higher in the Summer, and a few degrees lower in the Winter. It makes a big difference!
- Get shower smart. Install low-flow showerheads and faucets and turn your hot water heater down to 120 degrees F to see hot water costs go down by as much as 50%!
- Replace electronics and appliances with energy efficient models. Look for the Energy Star label when purchasing.
- Plant a tree! Planting shade tress around your house will absorb CO2 and slash your Summer air-conditioning bills.
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Recycling paper, glass and metal saves 70-90% of the energy used to produce new materials while keeping more waste out of landfills. Buy purchasing used clothes and furniture you save the environment from the effects of all of the energy that would have been used to create those same products if they were brand new!
- Mount a local campaign against global warming and participate at the national, state and local level. Click here for details.
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