Here's some tips for living the green life!
WATER
○ Fix any leaky faucets, toilets, or water pipes. Small drips of water can lead to lots of wasted water.
○ Wash your car the natural way- wait until it rains
○ Install water saving faucets
ENERGY
○ Conserve fuel by turning down the heat at night and while your away from home- or install a programmable thermostat.
○ Use compact fluorescent lightbulbs.
○ Insulate your home against heat loss and periodically check insulation.
○ Turn off lights after leaving a room.
○ Avoid using cars
○ Avoid anything battery operated
TOXINS
○ Use non-toxic cleaning alternatives in your home
○ Avoid the use of aerosols
WASTE
○ Avoid excess packaging
○ Do not throw out your toxic household wastes
○ Take your own bags to the grocery store
Recycling
Recycling is a way you can help the environment. Recycling helps lower the amount of resources that we use. In the group, we always recycle even the littlest things we can. You can do it too!
There are better things you can do though. You could reduce and reuse. After all, recycling does put toxic gases in the air. For instance, you could reuse your plastic bags, for things like your lunch.
Tallying Greenhouse Gases From Cars
Ah, the time-honored ritual of road-tripping. Who hasn't enjoyed loading skis, boots and poles into the car, packing your most cherished CDs and cruising backroads to a nearby peak? Or maybe you prefer gathering your blanket, ball and suntan lotion and heading to the shore. Whatever your destination and no matter how much you love driving, there are a couple of hazards difficult to avoid: traffic jams--and the less visible but very serious global warming pollution belching from tailpipes.
How much do American cars contribute to heat-trapping emissions?
A staggering amount of global warming pollution comes from U.S. cars. A new report (Global Warming on the Road [PDF]) shows that in 2004, our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from personal vehicles totaled 314 million metric tons. That’s equal to the amount of carbon in a coal train 55,000 miles long, enough to circle the world twice. General Motors cars alone account for more carbon pollution than that from America’s largest electric-generating company, American Electric Power. Emissions from Toyota vehicles, fourth among car companies, edge out those from the Tennessee Valley Authority, third among power companies.
We might not picture creating pounds of global warming pollution when we drive, but the exhaust coming out of our car has actual weight—an average household with two mid-sized vehicles emits more than 20,000 pounds of CO2 a year. That's 10 tons of pollution adding to the layer of greenhouse gases that heat the Earth. Excessive amounts of these gases—especially CO2—are forming too thick a heat blanket around the Earth and leading to climate change.
Applying the brakes to Global Warming pollution
If there’s a silver lining to our massive exhaust cloud, it’s knowledge. Since we know what is contributing to the problem, we also know some solutions. As the report points out, three factors lead to heat-trapping emissions from automobiles:
• amount of driving
• fuel economy and
• the carbon content of the gas used.
Drivers can control two of these. We can streamline the trips we take in our car, cutting down our global warming pollution and saving at the pump. We can also choose vehicles with high fuel economy.
Today's cars matter down the road
One of the most eye-opening findings of the report is that the cars we choose today will affect our lives for decades. Surprisingly, the biggest category of current on-the-road polluters is the small car. Why? Simply because there are so many of them on the road. But soon the much less efficient SUV will become the representative vehicle, and because of its low average fuel economy, the global warming pollution from America’s roadways will surge.
Acting now is imperative to slowing global warming and curbing air pollution. For instance, doubling the fuel efficiency of all new vehicles today would not fully be reflected until 2025. Because cars last so long, seemingly small differences add up to large ones over a car’s lifetime. So drive smart to save fuel and cut global warming pollution, and maintain your car properly so it always runs with peak efficiency.
WE GLADLY WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT TO YOU:
www.edf.com
FIND OUT MORE!
MAIN CONCERN
Our biggest concern isn't anything to do with air pollution or anything about waste. Our main concern includes littering and water. To be exact, the cleanliness of our aquifer.
What is the Aquifer?
Well, what do you notice about the word? It kinda sounds like aqua (meaning water). It's not a lake or the ocean, but it is a body of water. This water is probably under you right now Hard to believe but, under you is the water you drink.
What does the Aquifer
look like?
The aquifer is a very unique
thing. It supplies our drinking water.
It gets filtered by these holes ( I believe is on rocks of limestone). Some of the holes on this possible rock are small and some are larger. Toward the center of the aquifer, it is a sparkling, clean view. As you move to the opened spring to, it gets filthier and filthier. Then, as you pop out of the spring to land, you are covered in litter and buckets of spilled oil.
How'd that get there?
It gets there by people who just don't
care. If you litter by a body of spring water or in it, it ends up inside our drinking water.
So this is it...
That's not a good thing. Not only can we pollute the air and the oceans, we can also pollute our drinking water. I'm pretty sure no one
wants to be drinking this:
I forgot to tell you..... only 2% of all the
water in this world is our drinking water.
So we must protect it. You can help spread
the word about protecting our waters by
informing people about this site, or just have
a talk with them.
Because, our bottles could always and forever be full of this:
WATER
○ Fix any leaky faucets, toilets, or water pipes. Small drips of water can lead to lots of wasted water.
○ Wash your car the natural way- wait until it rains
○ Install water saving faucets
ENERGY
○ Conserve fuel by turning down the heat at night and while your away from home- or install a programmable thermostat.
○ Use compact fluorescent lightbulbs.
○ Insulate your home against heat loss and periodically check insulation.
○ Turn off lights after leaving a room.
○ Avoid using cars
○ Avoid anything battery operated
TOXINS
○ Use non-toxic cleaning alternatives in your home
○ Avoid the use of aerosols
WASTE
○ Avoid excess packaging
○ Do not throw out your toxic household wastes
○ Take your own bags to the grocery store
Recycling
Recycling is a way you can help the environment. Recycling helps lower the amount of resources that we use. In the group, we always recycle even the littlest things we can. You can do it too!
There are better things you can do though. You could reduce and reuse. After all, recycling does put toxic gases in the air. For instance, you could reuse your plastic bags, for things like your lunch.
Tallying Greenhouse Gases From Cars
Ah, the time-honored ritual of road-tripping. Who hasn't enjoyed loading skis, boots and poles into the car, packing your most cherished CDs and cruising backroads to a nearby peak? Or maybe you prefer gathering your blanket, ball and suntan lotion and heading to the shore. Whatever your destination and no matter how much you love driving, there are a couple of hazards difficult to avoid: traffic jams--and the less visible but very serious global warming pollution belching from tailpipes.
How much do American cars contribute to heat-trapping emissions?
A staggering amount of global warming pollution comes from U.S. cars. A new report (Global Warming on the Road [PDF]) shows that in 2004, our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from personal vehicles totaled 314 million metric tons. That’s equal to the amount of carbon in a coal train 55,000 miles long, enough to circle the world twice. General Motors cars alone account for more carbon pollution than that from America’s largest electric-generating company, American Electric Power. Emissions from Toyota vehicles, fourth among car companies, edge out those from the Tennessee Valley Authority, third among power companies.
We might not picture creating pounds of global warming pollution when we drive, but the exhaust coming out of our car has actual weight—an average household with two mid-sized vehicles emits more than 20,000 pounds of CO2 a year. That's 10 tons of pollution adding to the layer of greenhouse gases that heat the Earth. Excessive amounts of these gases—especially CO2—are forming too thick a heat blanket around the Earth and leading to climate change.
Applying the brakes to Global Warming pollution
If there’s a silver lining to our massive exhaust cloud, it’s knowledge. Since we know what is contributing to the problem, we also know some solutions. As the report points out, three factors lead to heat-trapping emissions from automobiles:
• amount of driving
• fuel economy and
• the carbon content of the gas used.
Drivers can control two of these. We can streamline the trips we take in our car, cutting down our global warming pollution and saving at the pump. We can also choose vehicles with high fuel economy.
Today's cars matter down the road
One of the most eye-opening findings of the report is that the cars we choose today will affect our lives for decades. Surprisingly, the biggest category of current on-the-road polluters is the small car. Why? Simply because there are so many of them on the road. But soon the much less efficient SUV will become the representative vehicle, and because of its low average fuel economy, the global warming pollution from America’s roadways will surge.
Acting now is imperative to slowing global warming and curbing air pollution. For instance, doubling the fuel efficiency of all new vehicles today would not fully be reflected until 2025. Because cars last so long, seemingly small differences add up to large ones over a car’s lifetime. So drive smart to save fuel and cut global warming pollution, and maintain your car properly so it always runs with peak efficiency.
WE GLADLY WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT TO YOU:
www.edf.com
FIND OUT MORE!
MAIN CONCERN
Our biggest concern isn't anything to do with air pollution or anything about waste. Our main concern includes littering and water. To be exact, the cleanliness of our aquifer.
What is the Aquifer?
Well, what do you notice about the word? It kinda sounds like aqua (meaning water). It's not a lake or the ocean, but it is a body of water. This water is probably under you right now Hard to believe but, under you is the water you drink.
What does the Aquifer
look like?
The aquifer is a very unique
thing. It supplies our drinking water.
It gets filtered by these holes ( I believe is on rocks of limestone). Some of the holes on this possible rock are small and some are larger. Toward the center of the aquifer, it is a sparkling, clean view. As you move to the opened spring to, it gets filthier and filthier. Then, as you pop out of the spring to land, you are covered in litter and buckets of spilled oil.
How'd that get there?
It gets there by people who just don't
care. If you litter by a body of spring water or in it, it ends up inside our drinking water.
So this is it...
That's not a good thing. Not only can we pollute the air and the oceans, we can also pollute our drinking water. I'm pretty sure no one
wants to be drinking this:
I forgot to tell you..... only 2% of all the
water in this world is our drinking water.
So we must protect it. You can help spread
the word about protecting our waters by
informing people about this site, or just have
a talk with them.
Because, our bottles could always and forever be full of this:
