Great article from the Atlantic on how companies can recycle energy and save millions:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200805/recycled-steam
There is a lot of terrifying news out there about the environment, news which can leave us feeling helpless. I find factoids about the effects of positive environmental choices to be a simple way to motivate myself to make changes. This blog looks at many sides of our efforts to go green: factoids, green tips, individual success stories, bad habits we can’t seem to kick, helpful companies and resources, and so on. Please let me know about your own efforts to go green.
Sustainability in 2008
March Focus: Recycling
Factoid of the Month:
In 2004 the United States used 8 million tons of office paper (3.2 billion reams). That’s the equivalent of 178 million trees!
Easy Tips for Reducing Paper:
1. Reduce the default margin setting for your documents
2. Use both sides of the page for copies
3. Use scrap paper for printing drafts, notes, emails etc.
4. Think twice before you print
5. Read and pay bills online
Factoid of the Month:
In 2004 the United States used 8 million tons of office paper (3.2 billion reams). That’s the equivalent of 178 million trees!
Easy Tips for Reducing Paper:
1. Reduce the default margin setting for your documents
2. Use both sides of the page for copies
3. Use scrap paper for printing drafts, notes, emails etc.
4. Think twice before you print
5. Read and pay bills online
Quote of the Month
“It is probably easier to imagine change at the grass-roots level enduring than it is to expect political leaders to make changes in the absence of a political base of support for those changes.” Al Gore
Blog Archive
Contributors
Labels
- Agriculture (2)
- Appliance Efficiency (2)
- Beef (4)
- Bottled Water (1)
- CMI (8)
- Coal (5)
- Efficiency (6)
- Electricity (24)
- Engine Idling (2)
- Green Taxes (1)
- Methane (5)
- Online Statements (3)
- Paper (25)
- Product Review (5)
- Recycling (19)
- Reducing Impact (41)
- Sustainable Lifestyles (21)
- Transportation (6)
- Understand Your Electricity (8)
- Waste (2)
- Wind Power (7)
- worms (1)
The Green Factoids Highly Simplified List of Environmental Priorities:
1. Reduce Electricity Use
especially by targeting
Kitchen appliances
Heating and cooling
Lights
2. Reduce Transportation Energy Use
Drive/fly fewer miles
Increase your gas mileage
3. Don't Waste Resources
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle
4. Eat less meat, especially beef
especially by targeting
Kitchen appliances
Heating and cooling
Lights
2. Reduce Transportation Energy Use
Drive/fly fewer miles
Increase your gas mileage
3. Don't Waste Resources
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle
4. Eat less meat, especially beef
No Brainers: small impact/no trouble
- Winter: turn your thermostat down 2-3 degrees
- Summer: turn your thermostat up 2-3 degrees
- Skip the receipt at the ATM, gas station, and elsewhere
- Use voicemail instead of an answering machine
- Wash clothes in warm or cold water instead of hot
- Sign up for paperless statements and On-line bill paying
- Set the dishwasher to energy-saver dry
- Skip bottled water
- Set you computer to sleep after 5 minutes of inactivity
- Stop Idling your car
Major Enviromental Sites
Favorite Green Blogs
- The Big Green Purse
- WorldChanging
- EcoGeek
- Solve Climate
- Thoughts on Global Warming
- De Smog Blog
- TreeHugger
- Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward
- Celsias
- Michael Bluejay's Saving Electricity
- Alternative Energy Blog
- The Energy Blog
- Grist
- Impact Analysis
- Climate Change Action
- Sustainablog
- Jolly Green Blogger
My Blogger Panel
10 comments:
Lindsay,
It was exciting to hear your name recently. The occurrence was very random. I hope you are well and glad to see you are engaged in the green movement. I started a renewable energy business called Kashong Energy Partners. The biggest challenge today can be summed up in three words: Energy, Environment and Education. You are in the thick of it.
Michael Johnson
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
Great job....You have beautifully presented your thought in this blog post. I admire the time and effort you put into your blog and detailed information you offer.
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