Second Grade's 70 Simple Ways to Save the Earth
First 10 Ideas
Effect: If one 20-mile trip per week was cut out (by combining errands) for every registered vehicle in the United States, 145 million fewer tons of greenhouse gases would be released into the air each year. Thats equal to the annual carbon dioxide emissions from 36 coal-fired power plants.
Brought to you by Sean and Kiernan
go green
Effect: one out of every 3 pounds of the waste that Americans generate is just for packaging which each year adds up to 77 million tons-enough to fill the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans 37 times.
Brought to you by Cole and Matt
Earth 911 and the three R's
Effect: They would save 1.65 billion gallons of water a year.
Brought to you by Nicolas and Ryan
How to install it
Effect: One soft drink can recycled by each elementary school student in America would save 24.8 million cans.
That would be enought aluminum to create 21 Boeing 737 airplanes.
Brought to you by Devon and Mandy
Earth 911
Effect: If every American household turned off the lights for one hour,
they would prevent more than 16, 610 tons of carbon dioxide from being
released-enough to fill every hot air balloon at the anual Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta seven times.
Brought to you by Erin and Silvia
Helping the Environment
Effect: One hour of using a gas-powered leaf blower produces same amount of Green House gas as a car going 4400 Miles--that is a trip from Salt Lake City, Utah to New York City.
Brought to you by Cavan and William.
Green Earth Cleaning
Effect: One dimmer switch replacing a regular on/off switch in every US
household would save the electricity necessary to light 1.2 million
homes-thats every home in the state of Arkansas!.
Brought to you by Erin and Jack
Helping the Environment
Effect: If you buy sliced bread from the bread aisle, try to find loaves that are packaged in only a single wrapper. Double- wrapped loaves contain at least 20 percent more plastic packaging- per gram of bread. The waste generated by this additional wrapper across all households in the Untied States and Canada would weigh nearly sixty thousand pounds- or the total weight of all the food you will ever eat in your lifetime.
Brought to you by Kierra and Elizabeth!!
Saving the Environment
Effect: If every american collected one gallon of water a once a week while waiting for the shower or bathwater to get hot(use it for your houseplants!), the total saved would be 15.8 billion gallons of water per year- enough to fill the Reflecting Pool at the National Mall in Washinton D.C. 2,338 times.
Brought to you by Finn and MAtt
Water Conservation
Effect: The average Americans household continously leaks about fifty watts of electricity.Eliminating that trickle would save $1 billion in energy costs.
Brought to you by Sarah and Maria
Fix your power leak, Low impact, middle income, and living the high life in NYC
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Effect: If every American switched to receiving just one bill as an electric statement instead of a paper one, the one-time savings would be 217,800,00 sheets--enough to completely blanket the island of Key West in a single layer of paper.
Brought to you by Cavan and Ethan.
Earth911
Effect: If metro Atlantans who narmally drove to work would telecommute just one day a year instead, they would save more then $50 million in gas-enough to buy an EnergyStar compact florescent bulb for the desk lamps of every college student in the United States.
Brought to you by Kathryn and Moira
Greenhouse Gas
Effect: If 40 million Americans were to spend just one minute less in the shower each day over their lifetimes, they would save 4 trillion gallons of water---the total amount of rain or snow that falls over the entire lower 48 states of the United States in a day.
Brought to you by Rebecca and Hope.
Montgomery Recycling
Effect: You will save about 4.5 gallons of water--as much drinking water as the averae person in Africa uses for a whole day of drinking, cooking, bathing, and cleaning.
Brought to you by John and Annie.
Saving Water
Effect: Telephone books make up 10 percent of waste at dump sites.
Brought to you by Molly and Daniel.
How to recycle your phone book
Effect: If the thermostat in every house were lowered by just one degree during the winter, the nation would save 260 million barrels of crude oil- enough to fill an oil tanker 400 times. (That's the amount of oil that is imported into the United States from Iraq each year!)
Brought To You By Katie and Caroline
Tips For Setting Your Thermostat
Effect: Each American consumes an average of 2,200 two-ply napkins per year, or just over 6 napkins per day. If each day Americans used just one fewer napkins per day, it would save about 150 million of them from the trash-enough to provide a napkin to every person who eats a hot dog on July 4th. .
Brought To You By Stevie and Ian
Greenhouse Gas
Effect: Fewer chemicals will likely leach from the container into the food. Chemicals that transfer from plastic to food and from food to body may cause health risks.
Brought to you by Molly and Kassie
Safe Food Storage
Effect: You'll save money and time shopping in the big trash bag aisle.The average cost of twenty kitchen trash bags is $5. When one ton of plastic bag is reused, the energy equivalent of eleven barrels of oil is saved. When one ton of paper bags is reused, up to seventeen trees are spared.
Brought to you by Ryan and Conner.
EPA
Effect: Subscribe to and recycle your newspapers. Newspaper subscribers can save about 50 percent off of the cover price, as well as trips to the newsstand. Each year, ten million tons of newspapers are still tossed into landfills and are not recycled. If just half of these were recycled, it would save seventy-five million trees..
Brought to you by Berlin And Caspar
Montgomery Recycling
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Effect: U.S. households dispose of nearly one hundred billion plastic bags annually, millions of which end up littering the enviorment and harming endangered marine animals. By reducing plastic bag consumption by just two bags a week, you'll throw away at least on hundred fewer bags per week. If you tied together handle by handle, these plastic bags would make a rope as long enough to wrap around the earth more than 126 times.
Brought to you by Madeline and Maggie
Plastic Bags
Effect: If the lotion or soap that you usually buy comes with a pump didspenser, you can avoid sending another hand pump to the landfill by purchasing a refill container with a flip cap and just reusing your empty bottle. If 10% of the U.S. households made a one time purchase of a lotion or soap bottle without and attatched pump, the plastic saved would be an estimated 250,000 lbs- enough lotion pumps to fill nearly 1,200 tanning booths from floor to ceiling.
Brought to you by Wesley and Spencer
Soap Information
Effect: Use the library or buy books from a second hand store Consider sharing the ones that you have with friends and family members, or donate the books rather than throw them away.
Brought to you by David and JP
Atlanta-Fulton County Library
Effect: Ninety-eight million people within the last five years hiked, biked,white-water rafted, and kayaked all over the planet. Adventure travel forces travelers to become actively-engaged with new cultures and environments, as well as hopefully becoming more aware and respectful of the outdoors.
Brought to you by Jesse and Amory
Simple Steps To Go Green
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Effect: It's less expensive, and it saves packaging waste. The average bar of soap lasts for about twenty showers, whereas a sixteen-ounce bottle of soap lasts for an average of eighty showers. But body wash costs on average more than four times as much as bar soap. If every U.S. household replaced a bottle of body wash with a bar soap, roughly 2.5 million poounds of plastic containers could be diverted from the waste stream.
Brought to you by ZOE HARDIE and ANDRES
Recycling
Effect: Even one office worker using just one plastic knife per day could add up to 250 per year. If every other worker used just one a day, it would amount to 15 billion plastic knives a year, enough to create a plastic blade 1.5 million miles long.
Brought to you by Jeremy and Wesley
Saving the Environment
Effect: This means less electricity used, less money spent, and less time cooking.
If everyone in North America cooked exclusively with their microwave for a year, we'd save as much energy as the entire continentof Africa consumes during that same time.
Brought to you by Beth and James.
Helping the Environment
Effect: Better yet, try not to use it at all by composing all of your food waste or disposing of it in the trash. Your drain will be less clogged, and you'll save money on maintainingyour septic system. Disposal waste can disrupt nutrient balance in the water and soil ecosystems, which in turn can harm wildlife.
Brought to you by Jesse and Allison
Hug a Tree Go Green
Effect: Unplug your television when it is not in use. You'll save money and energy. Between 10 and 15 percent of a TV's energy is still used when it is powered "off". TV use accounts for more than 10 percent of the household electricity bills. The average household in America owns more than two TVs. If every home just unplugged their TV sets when they weren't being used, we'd save more than $1 billion per year in energy bills. To make this easier, connect your TV to an outlet that is connected to a wall switch.
Brought to you by Maygan and Mae Mae
Why Not Recycle
Effect: Washing your car in a commercial car wash is better for the enviroment than doing it yourself.Commercial car washes not only use significantly less water per wash,up to 100 gallons less, but they often recycle and reuse the water.If every American who currently washes a vehicle at home chooses instead to go to a professional car wash,just once,up to 8.7 billion gallons of water could be saved, and some 12 billion gallons of soapy polluted water could be diverted from the country's rivers,lakes, and streams.
Brought to you by Jackie and Kyle
Car Wash Tips
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Effect: All the paper cups can be reused, and recyled, instead of throwing away plastic bottles. You can save all your paper cups to help the enviornment.If you throw away 2 aluminum cans, you waste more energy than 1,000,000,000 (one billion) of the world's poorest people use a day.
Brought to you by: Charlotte and Anabella
Save our planet
Effect: if just one passenger per each flight in this world this year packed one pound less of luggage, they would save enough fuel to fly a Boeing 737 around the world 474 times.
Brought to you by Jessica and Sarah
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Subscribe to your favorite magazine.
Effect: If you subscribe to your favorite magazines instead of buying them from the newsstand, you'll get the convenience of delivery and will save up to 75 percent off of the newsstand price. Sixty percent of most magazines at the newsstand aren't sold and have to be hauled off to the trash dump which is a waste of time, money, and energy.
Brought to by Aida and Erin
Trash dumps and landfills a plenty
Effect: Save same amount of Green House gas as a car going 4400 Mile.
Brought to you by Garrett and Owen
100 Ways To Save the Enviroment
Effect: Close the curtains when it is sunny in the summer and when it is cold in the winter, and you could reduce your energy needs by up to 25 percent. If every house in America kept the cutians closed for additonal insulation, the total energy saved annually would be as much as the entire nation of Japan uses in a year.
Brought to you by Jack and Eric
Curtains
Effect: Replaceing just one 500-sheet roll of non-recycled toilet paper a year with one 500-sheet roll of 100 percent recycled paper in every American household would leave 424,000 trees standing-16 times as many trees as are in New York City's Central Park .
Brought to you by: M&M (MAX and Matt)
Toilet Paper World
Effect: You'll cut water lost to evaporation by 90% and therefore the cost of replenishing it. An average-size pool with an average sun and wind exposure loses approximatly one thousand gallons of water per month-enough to meet the drinking water needs of a family of four for nearly a year and a half.
Brought To You by Katherine and Smith
Tips on Saving Water; Covering Your Pool
Effect: If each family reused just two feet of holiday ribbon each year, thirty-eight thousand miles' worth would be saved. That's enough to tie a bow around the entire planet.
Brought To You by Claire and Smith
Saving the Planet By Saving Your Gift Wrap
Effect: Buy loose, unwrapped candy from the bin, if you can. Many candy wrappers contain chemicals that make them stain and water resistant but also make them difficult to recycle.
Brought to you by Alison and Sam
Earth Day
Effect: One old cell phone recycled by each phone user in America would reclaim enough precious metals to creat 631 solid gold replicas of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen's funerary mask.
Brought To You By: Madeline
Cell Phone Recycling with GRC Wireless Recycling
10 More Ideas
Effect: Turn off youroutside lights when they are not needed. If possible, use timers or motion sensors. The average household spends about $13 per year per 100-watt bulb electricity.
Brought to you by Thomas and Leila
recycling lights
Effect: If just two out of three sports fans filled a water bottle rather then buying a new one, it would save as many plastic bottles as there are people in America.
Brought to you by Cecilia and Elizabeth!!
Refill not Landfill
Effect: Every ten aluminum cans recycled saves four pounds of cabon. If you recycle newspapers, you could save fifty pounds of carbon per year.
Brought to you by Caroline and Katie Anne
Recycling Aluminum Cans are Helpful
Effect: You'll not only save on money and packing, but you'll likely save on time,
water and money by reducing the length of your shower. If only seven U.S.
households replaced its shampoo and conditioner puechase with a single
two-in-one bottle, the amount of plastic saved per year could fill a football
field twenty-seven stories high.
Brought to you by Candace and Kyle
Two in One Shampoo
Effect: Use pencils made of recycled materials and those packed in light weight or recycled packaging. Pencils can be made from all sorts of things that would otherwise end up in our waste stream- like furniture, old money, and paper. Pencils account for about $121 million worth of purchases each year, and all could potentially ba made from recycled material.
Brought to you by Devon and Ben
Recycle Pencils
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Effect: Online maps are free, and if you have to print them out , you'll be able to better recycle the paper when you're done with them. If you've got old maps use them to wrap presents intead of trowing them out.
Brought to you by Cavan and Preston.
Map Quest
Effect: Mind the amount of water that you use when brewing. Making coffee uses about 1/3 of the tap water consumed in North America and Europe. If every office worker cut back on water filled by one cup we would save about 10 million gallons per day. Over the course of a year this would save enough water to provide two gallons to the 1.2 billion people who don't have access to fresh water at all.
Brought to you by Matt and Tommy
Green Coffe Tips
Effect: Take a bus. A bus emits about 2.75 pounds of carbon per mile; divided by the number of passengers on it, however, this can create carbon savings.
Brought to you by Rebecca and Spencer.
Public Transportation
Effect: If you can, select paper towel rolls with smaller-size sheets in order to extend the life of each roll.
A derease in U.S.household consumption
of just three rolls per year would save 120,000 tons of waste $4.1 million in landfil dumping fees.
Brought to you by Katherine and Moira
Bounty Select-A-Size
Effect: You'll not only contribute to a good cause, save resources in the manufacturing of new equipment, and delay the land filling of your old gear, but you'll get a tax write-off as well. If 10 percent of American golfers donated a set of fourteen clubs to the Godwill, the total tax rebate could fill each of the more then 270,000 golf holes on courses around the country with more than one hundered gold balls(which would require digging deeper holes!) .
Brought to you by Stevie and James.
Greenhouse Gas
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Effect: It would save them all time and gas driving. It also would reduce congestion, which costs americans 78 billion dollars a year in wasted fuel and lost time.
Brought to you by Sean and Jack
100 Ways To Save the Enviroment
Effect: conserve energy and money on a daily basis.
Brought to you by Matt and Mark
Internet
Effect: walking to school saves gas.
Brought to you by Wallace and Garrett
Montgomery Recycling
Effect: When you ground whole bean coffee, look for vietamins with organic,Fair Trade, Bird Friendly, or Rainforest Alliance cetification seals. These labels represent coffee farms that practice substainable agriculture to persereve or restore rain forest ecosystems. Just one household switching to cetified coffee for a year is enough to protect 9,200 square feet of forest. If everyone in Seattle switched to certified coffees, a rain forest area the size of that city could be saved every year.
Brought to you by Jay and Cole
Coffee
Effect: Buy greeting cards made from recycled or tree-free materials. Americans send two billion holiday cards each year, so just 1 percent reduction could save fifteen thousand trees.
Brought to you buy Reagen and Brie.
Good Greeting Cards
Effect: You'll get the product you want rather than some odd scented gel and you'll create less plastic waste. A single 300-room hotel in Las vegas uses more than 150,000 plastic bottles of shampoo per year.
Brought to you by Daniel and Ryan
Toiletries
Effect: Consider buying soy food products. Growing soy beans doesn't require nearly the amount of water that is needed to raise animals. A household that replaces one pound of beef with one pound of soy per month will conserve twenty thousand gallons of water per year. If just 20 percent of the households in te United States and Canada substituted four ounces of beef for four ounces of soy per week, the annual water savings would be enough to provide ten gallons of deinking water to every person in the world.
Brought to you by Gage and Ryan.
Tuscaloosa, AL- Official Website
Effect: saveing more cloths and buying second hand clothes.
Brought to you by Will and Garrett
What Yellowknife Recycles
Effect: For each 27-watt compact fluorescent light bulb you'll get carbon dioxide emissions savings of 140
pounds per year and save $12.00. For each 18-watt compact fluorescent light bulb, you'll get carbon emissions
of 110 pounds and save $9.50.
Brought to you by Erin and Reagan
Energy Saving Light Bulbs
Effect: You could counserve more than twenty gallons (an entire tank) of gasoline per month than the average vehicle. If an additional 1 percent of vehicles sold in the United States per year were hybrids, the gasoline saved annualy would fill nearly 4,600 tanker trucks.
Brought to you buy Hannah and Brie.
Hybrid Cars- Good for the Environment
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Effect: If all amswering machines in U.S. homes were eventually replaced by voice mail services, the annual energy savings would total nearly two billion killowat-hours. The reduction in air pollution related to this decrease in energy use would be equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from the road for a year.
Brought to you by Jack and Tyler
100 Ways To Save the Enviroment
Effect: Advoid crayons made of paraffin wax, which is derived from petroleum. Instead choose crayons made from soybean oil, which have the added benefit of being non-toxic. American is the largest producer of soybeans in the world. From this we could produce well over one trillion crayons-without tapping oil supplies.
Brought to you by Diland and Mats
Crayon
Effect: Disposable plastic pens are not recyclable, nor are they biogdegradable. Throw one away, and it will still be in a landfill 50 thousand years from now..
Brought to you by Colette and Sarah
Refillable Pens
Effect: You'll save money and packaging. Americans today consume sveventeen billion quarts of popcorn each year (54 quarts per person), thirty percent of which are eaten at the movie theaters, sporting events, entertainment arinas, amusment parks, and other recreational centers. If half the people shared their popcorn at these events, we could save the paper packaging for more than 2.5 billion quarts serving size.
Brought to you by Henry and Cole
Popcorn Bags
Effect: If every newspaper reader in the United States recycled just one typical Sunday paper, he or she could help create 212 million pounds of cellulose insulation-enough to insulate 118,767 Habitat for Humanity houses. That's nearly twice as many houses as all the Habitat homes built in America so far.
Brought to You By Smith.
Recycling Newspaper
Effect: SThe fridge is the single biggest energy-consuming kiten appliance, and opening the refrigerator door accounts for between $30 and $60 of a typical family's electricity bill each year. the amount of energy saved in a year by more efficientrefrigerator usage could be enough to light every house in the United States for more than four and a half months straight.
Brought to you by Cavan and Preston.
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Effect: You will pay up to 50 percent less and significantly reduce the amount of energy needed to transport all that extra packagin waste to landfills and recycling centers. If by buyin in bulk, every U.S. household generated 10 percent less packaging waste, the volume of diesel fuel saved by garbage trucks annually would be enough to transport a busload of school children on a field trip to the moon and back everyday of the school year.
Brought to you by Kelly and Elizabeth B.
Wonderful Bulk Foods
Effect: If you're planning to buy several cans of the same product, look for a larger can. If you buy a 28-ounce can
of stewed tomatoes instead of two 14.5-ounce cans, you'll not only save up to 50 precent on the price, but you'll also
reduce waste and conserve resources.If every month each U.S. household subsituted a larger can for two smaller ones, the
annual savings in steel could build an Eiffel Tower on each of the six continents.
Brought to you by Emma and Maria.
Save money and the enviroment, too
Effect: The Average U.S ousehold receveies 1.5 trees worth of junk mail each year, and many of these trees are throuwn right in the trash.
To stop this juck mail Register with the Mail Preference Service below.If all Americans recycle their juck mail, $370 million in landfill dumping fees could be saved each year.
Brought to you by Patrick and Mr. B
Stop Junk Mail
Effect: Use a didgital camera instead of one that needs film. Some 868 million rolls of film are processed each year, and the solutions used to make the prints often contain hazardous chemicals that require special treatment and disposal. Avoid using disposable cameras. Despite the claim on the box that they are recycled, more than half end up in the trash.
Brought to you by Berlin
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