Going Green

We can all do our part in going green. Its not that hard. Life is turbulent, but the turbulence we feel today, will be nothing like the disaster we'll see tomorrow, if we don't act! Take your newspapers to the trash dump or set them out on the road for the city to pick up. Keep barrels or large trashcans to throw away bottles, cans, and other recyclables. Place a large container in the yard and cover it with simple window screen. Use the rain water you collect to help water your plants. Gosh, there are so many things you can do, if you just use your imagination and think green!

Going Green Statistics

The amount of wood and paper thrown away each year is enough to heat 50 million homes for 20 years.

99.5% of all the fresh water on Earth is found in icecaps and glaciers.

Each gallon of gas exhumed by a car contributes about 19 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere. For a single car driving 1,000 miles a month, thats equal to 120 tons of CO2 a year.

Americans throw away 25 billion Styrofoam coffee cups every year, and 2.5 million plastic beverage bottles every single hour.

A single polystyrene (Styrofoam) cup contains one billion billion molecules of CFCs. (Chlorofluorocarbons) Written out, thats 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. Whew!

Once a CFC atom reaches the ozone layer, it can take 100+ years before it breaks up and becomes harmless.

110 million Americans live in areas where levels of air pollutants are considered to be harmful according to the federal government.

Americans dump 16 tons of sewage into their waters, every one minute of every day.

Although water covers two-thirds of the Earth's surface, the fresh water found in lakes, streams, and rivers represents only one-hundredth of the Earth's total water.

Each year, 1 million sea birds, 100,000 marine mammals, and 50,000 fur seals are killed as a result of eating something plastic.

Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill the two 1,350-foot twin towers of New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.

Americans throw away about 40 billion soft drink cans and bottles every year. If they were placed end to end, they would reach the moon (and back!) nearly 20 times over.

84% of a typical household's waste, including food scraps, yard waste, cardboard, paper, cans, and bottles, can be recycled in some way.

Using recycled paper for one printing of the New York Times Sunday Edition, would save 75,000 trees.

If every American recycled just 1/10th of the newspapers they buy, we would save 25 million trees a year.

Each year, 40 million acres of tropical rainforests, (an area larger than the state of California), are destroyed by logging or burning.

Only 10% of the 35,000 pesticides introduced since 1945 have been tested for their long term effects on people.

It takes 1/20th the amount of raw materials to grow grains, fruits, and vegetables as it does to raise animals for meat.

The average American home uses about 300 gallons of water a day.

A small leak (of 1/32 inch long) on a faucet can waste up to 6,000 gallons of water a month, or 72,000 gallons a year.

America's refrigerators use about 7 percent of the nation's total electricity consumption which is about the same output of 25 large power plants. Close the *&!#&!$*# door!

By turning the heat down just a few degrees, Americans could save more than 500,000 barrels of oil each day which is over 21,000,000 gallons. Get out your sweaters and learn to conserve heat!

A single quart of motor oil disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to two million gallons of fresh water.

Driving 1,000 miles a month produces 120 tons of carbon dioxide a year.

If all vehicles on U.S. roads had properly inflated tires, it would save nearly 2 billion gallons of gasoline a year.


If American's especially, don't start going green soon, your life and mine, will be drastically changed forever. Do your part today by going green, if not for yourself, do this for your childrens, childrens, children!