GOING GREEN WITHOUT THE ENVY

Here are just a few things you can do to help out:

1. Turn off the water while brushing your teeth - the average person uses 2 gallons of water every time they brush and don't turn it off
2. Use energy-efficient light bulbs - If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
3. Use less paper towels and use dish towels - If every household in the U.S. replaced just one roll of 180-sheet virgin-fiber paper towels with 100-percent recycled paper towels, we could save: 1.4 million trees, 3.7 million cubic feet of landfill space, and 526 million gallons of water, and prevent 89,400 pounds of pollution? (http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/GreenTeam/)

Here are a few sites that are helpful:

➢ http://www.environmentaldefense.org/home.cfm
➢ http://www.world.org/weo/environment
➢ http://11thhouraction.com/
➢ http://www.treehugger.com

Suggestions welcome!