[Vision2020] ] Interesting Numbers

[Tom Trail]

>Visionaries;
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>The link below takes you to the article in Fortune Magazine where this list
>first appeared.  It was part of a series of articles on big businesses which
>are "going green" as a profit strategy; the links to the related articles
>are also accessible from this link.   Please forward to any others you think
>might be interested. 
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>http://www.fortune.com/fortune/smallbusiness/articles/0,15114,456226,00.html
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>A Green World by the Numbers
>FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS
>Wednesday, June 4, 2003
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>If Americans unplugged their televisions when they turned them off, they'd
>save 8.45 billion kilowatt hours of electricity a year. That's twice the
>amount produced by the Hoover Dam. National Resource Defense Council;
>Department of the Interior If SUVs complied with the same fuel-economy
>standards as ordinary cars, the U.S. would save one million barrels of oil a
>day, more than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could produce at peak
>volume. New York Times Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to
>light a 100-watt light bulb for 3.5 hours. Can Manufacturers Institute On
>average, a homeowner with an automatic sprinkler system overwaters his lawn
>by 112,000 gallons a year. Metropolitan Water District of Southern
>California Sixty-five million trees are cut down to make the 500 pieces of
>junk mail sent each year to every person in the country. New Hampshire
>Department of Environmental Services A family of four can save up to 20,000
>gallons of water a year--the amount needed to fill an average-sized swimming
>pool--by using a low-flow showerhead. National Resource Defense Council If
>all the cordless phones and answering machines sold in the U.S. in the next
>ten years were Energy Star-certified, consumers would save $4.4 billion in
>electricity bills. U.S. Department of Energy Replacing a single incandescent
>light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb saves more than $50 in energy
>costs and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by nearly half a ton. Minnesota
>Pollution Control Agency Recycling two gallons of used motor oil provides
>enough electricity to cook 48 meals in a microwave oven. Utah Department of
>Environmental Quality Skylights make it more difficult for your air
>conditioner to cool your house; a two-by-four-foot clear glass skylight
>requires 240 extra kilowatt hours of electricity every year, enough to run
>the average television. California Energy Commission, National Renewable
>Energy Laboratory Forty percent of the country's lakes and rivers are
>unsuitable for fishing or swimming. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The
>Department of Energy has introduced an initiative to encourage the
>installation of solar energy systems on one million roofs by 2010. If
>successful, it will reduce carbon emissions every year by an amount equal to
>that produced by 850,000 cars. U.S. Department of Energy Compared with the
>average car, an SUV getting 13 miles a gallon wastes as much energy each
>year as leaving a bathroom light on for 30 years. Sierra Club Underinflated
>car tires reduce fuel efficiency, wasting up to two billion gallons of
>gasoline a year. Seattle City Light Scientists predict that if global
>warming continues at its present rate, by 2030 there will be no more
>glaciers in Montana's Glacier National Park. National Wetlands Research
>Center, U.S. Geological Survey
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>Originally from:
>Lynn Helbrecht
>Sustainability Coordinator
>Washington Governor's Executive Policy Office
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>
>Rep. Tom Trail

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Dr. Tom Trail
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