Green Facts

The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will light a 100-watt light bulb for four hours.
For every ton of paper used for recycling at least 30,000 liters of water is saved.
For every ton of paper used for recycling 3000-4000 KWh electricity is saved.
Creating a new aluminum can from scratch takes 95% more energy than making a can from recycled aluminum.
Making new paper from recycled paper requires 30-50% less energy than making paper from trees.
Every ton of recycled office paper saves approximately 380 gallons of oil.
Recycling Can Cut CO2 Emissions by 345 Million Tons a Year.
The energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a television for three hours.
Recycling 1 ream of paper prevents 1.6 kg of carbon emission.

The largest wind turbine in the world, located in Hawaii, stands 20 stories tall and has blades the length of a football field.
One wind turbine can produce enough electricity to power up to 300 homes.
Enough sunlight falls on the earth’s surface every hour to meet world energy demand for an entire year.
Silicon from just one ton of sand, used in photovoltaic cells, could produce as much electricity as burning 500,000 tons of coal.
Wind power is the fastest growing energy source in the world.
If it could be properly harnessed, enough sunlight falls on the earth in just one hour to meet world energy demands for a whole year.
In southern Iowa, USA, a power plant is using a crop called switchgrass to make electricity.

Though accounting for only 5 percent of the world’s population, Americans consume 26 percent of the world’s energy.
Worldwide, some 2 billion people are currently without electricity.
World energy consumption is expected to increase 40% to 50% by the year 2010. (you have the power to reduce that percentage.)
On average, 16 million tons of carbon dioxide are emitted into the atmosphere every 24 hours by human use worldwide.
The united States consumes about 17 million barrels of oil per day, of which nearly two-thirds is used for transportation.
While the world’s population doubled between 1950 and 1996, the number of cars increased tenfold.
Fossil fuels are depleted at rate that is 100,000 times faster than they are formed.
In 2006, the world emitted over 28 billion metric tons of CO2. Thailand was part of that by emitting 200 million metric tons of CO2.

Approximately 30,000 lives are cut short in the u.s. each year due to pollution from electricity production. (that’s just the U.S. if it’s the whole world, how many more lives will be cut short.)

Replacing one incandescent light bulb with CFL bulb means 1,000 pounds less carbon dioxide is emitted to the atmosphere.
Replacing one incandescent light bulb with CFL bulb saves $67 dollars over the bulb’s lifetime.
If you usually use hot water for your laundry you can cut your energy consumption in half by choosing warm water, and up to ninety percent if you choose cold.
The single most powerful climate change tool on these machines is the OFF switch. Forget what you've heard about how powering up equipment repeatedly wears it out. That's old information, dating back decades.

Every three months, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild the nation’s commercial air fleet.
If you throw away two aluminum cans, you would waste more energy than is used daily by each of a billion citizens in poorer countries.

If greenhouse gases continue to increase, climate models predict that the average temperature at the Earth's surface could increase from 1.8 to 4ºC (3.2 to 7.2ºF) above 1990 levels by the end of this century.
A 60 cm (two foot) rise in sea level would eliminate approximately 25,900 square km (10,000 square miles) of land.
In the last century, sea level rose 7.5-15 cm (5 to 6 inches).
It is estimated that the global average sea level will rise between 0.18 to 0.59 meters (0.6 and 2 feet) in the next century.

10 trees can neutralize a person’s entire carbon foot print for the entire year.
Driving with under-inflated tires will waste more fuel. Over a year, this could be like wasting an entire tank of gas.

Green Fact: Information from Green Fact of the Day (http://www.greenfactoftheday.com/), Repower American Organization (http://www.repoweramerica.org/), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html)