6 AMERICANWAY
OCTOBER 1 2007
If every coffee-drinkingAmericanused
a refillablemug insteadof adispos-
able cup,wewould spareour environ-
ment close to
sevenmillion
pounds of
CO
2
emis-
sions every
day. Orwe
couldplant
140,000 trees
toneutralize
thedamage.
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the seat belt sign is not on.
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Theaveragewashingmachineuses40.9gallonsofwaterper load; high-efficiencywashingmachinesuse less than27 gallonsofwaterper load.
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We lose at least 37.5million acres
(an area the
size of Georgia
) of rain
forest every year; rain forests are
home to half of the earth’s animal
and plant species.
Carbon footprint
A carbon footprint ismadeupof the sum
of twoparts, thedirect/primary footprint
and the indirect/secondary footprint.
The secondary footprint is ameasure
of the indirect
CO
2
emissions from the
whole life cycle of productswe use — the
emissions associatedwith theirmanufac-
ture and eventual breakdown.
Our primary footprint is ameasureof our
direct
CO
2
emissions from theburningof
fossil fuels, including transportationand
domestic energy consumption.
EVERYDAY,
340billion gallons ofwater arepulled from rivers, streams, and res-
ervoirs in theUnitedStates and cleaned for residential, commercial,
and industrial use. That’smore thanfive gallons ofwater for everyperson in theworldeachday.
LEED
Leadership in
Energyand
Environmental
Design, Green
BuildingRating System, is thenationallyaccept-
edbenchmark for thedesign, construction, and
operationofhigh-performance greenbuildings.
Compact
fluorescent
lightbulbs
last six to
10 times
longer and
aremore
energy
efficient
than con-
ventional
ones.
50%
34%
45%
63%
67%
of all major
appliances
ARE RECYCLED.
of all paper
of all plastic
soda bottles
of all aluminum
beverage cans
of all steel
packaging, and
