Here are 10 simple things you can do
and how much carbon dioxide you'll save by doing them.
Change a light
Replacing one regular light bulb with a compact fluorescent light will save
150 pounds of carbon dioxide per year.
Drive less
Walk, bike, carpool or take metro transit more often. You'll save
one pound of carbon dioxide for every mile you don’t drive!
Recycle more
You can save 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide per year by recycling
just half of your household waste.
Check your tires
Keeping your tires inflated properly can improve gas mileage
by more than 3%. Every gallon of gasoline saved
keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere!
Use less hot water
It takes a lot of energy to heat water. Use less hot water by
installing a low-flow showerhead (350 pounds of CO2 saved per year) and washing your clothes in cold or warm water (500 pounds saved per year).
Avoid products with a lot of packaging
You can save 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide
if you cut down your garbage by 10%.
Adjust your thermostat
Moving your thermostat down just 2 degrees in winter and up 2 degrees
in summer could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per year.
Plant a tree
A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.
Turn off electronic devices
Simply turning off your television, DVD player, stereo, and computer
when you're not using them will save thousands of pounds
of carbon dioxide per year.
Be a part of the solution
Learn more and get active at ClimateCrisis.net
These ten simple tips on things we can all do to help cut back the amount of carbon dioxide we pump into the atmosphere each year are taken from the award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning.
Please note: the Environmental Task Force will have copies of these tips available
at NCC’s Earth Day Celebrations on Thursday, April 19, in the Quad,
and at the Steve Goryl talk: Everest Untrashed, Lipkin Theatre, 11 a.m.
