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A dripping faucet can waste 20 gallons of water a day. A leaking toilet can use 90,000 gallons of water in a month. Whip out the wrench, save clean water and save some money, too! Rachael Otterbine http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/how_to_green_your_water.php
A ton of drink cans made with recycled aluminum saves an amazing 21,000 kilowatt hours. That's a 95 percent energy savings. Evan Beloni http://littercleanup.tripod.com/recycle/id9.html
Manufacturing one ton of office and computer paper with recycled paper stock can save nearly 3,000 kilowatt hours over the same ton of paper made with virgin wood products Evan Beloni http://littercleanup.tripod.com/recycle/id9.html
Each pound of local food you purchase prevents a quarter pound of global warming (C02) emissions. Maggie Millard http://www.globalstewards.org/ecotips.htm
While there are natural cycles in Earth's orbit can alter the planet's exposure to sunlight, explaining the current temperature trend, these cycles have taken place over hundreds of thousands of years- not a few centuries, like we are currently experiencing. Maggie Millard http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_warming_2.html
If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year! Maggie Millard http://members.aol.com/ramola15/funfacts.html
Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as buring it in an incinerator. Maggie Millard http://members.aol.com/ramola15/funfacts.html
The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. Maggie Millard http://members.aol.com/ramola15/funfacts.html
It takes almost 1/3 of a pound of chemicals (pesticides and fertilizers) to grow enough cotton for just ONE T-shirt. Rachael Otterbine http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/11/how_to_green_yo_12.php
On a given day, almost 25% of the particulate matter in the smog above Los Angeles can be traced back to China! See - we ALL breathe the SAME air, so no matter where pollution happens, it effects us all. Angie De Soto U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Each ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution! Rachel Rees http://members.aol.com/ramola15/funfacts.html


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