a little green inspiration

for those literal folks out there, who need some numbers, facts, to back up the greening of their worlds, Epic Magazine, which I just found today, has a nice little fact farm.

1. If you replace just 10 100-watt light bulbs with CFLs, you will eliminate as much C02 as an SUV generates in a year.

2. For every 10 people who walk instead of drive a one-mile trip every week, we can reduce 500 pounds of emissions every year.

3. For every 10,000 people who print the majority of their documents in "draft mode" printer setting, we could reduce the number of discarded ink cartridges by 20,000 annually.

4. For every 10,000 people who use only recycled copier paper, we can save 12,000 trees.

5. On an annual basis, American use enough plastic wrap to completely cover the state of Texas. Switch to recyclable, recycled aluminum foil for a safer, eco-friendlier food wrapper.

6. For every 10,000 people who change their 1980s-style toilets to more
modern, low-flow ones, we could save 100 million gallons of water annually.

7. For every 10,000 people with one-quarter acre yards who change to non-toxic weed killers, we can prevent an additional 5,000 pounds of harmful herbicides from becoming part of our environment.

8. For every 10,000 people who stop leaving the hose on while washing their
cars, we can save up to 1.3 million gallons of water.

9. Every year in North America, people use enough disposable wipes to fill
up 9,000 tractor-trailers. You can help reduce this quantity by choosing
reusable wipes.

10. For every 10,000 people who empty their lint filters after every load,
we could save the energy equivalent of 670,000 load cycles.