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The typical meal contains on average, ingredients from at least five countries outside of the United States. Locally grown food produces less CO2 than any one imported product. TRANSPORTATION:
If you have a whole bunch of extra usable stuff, please sell or donate to a thrift store, or charity. CLOTHES: It's embarrassing, but the U.S. alone sends about 21 billion pounds of textile waste to landfills every year. And sadly, only 10-15% of donated clothing actually ends up in the secondhand market. The trail of clothes https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.115-a449 PLASTIC: A whopping 91% of plastic is NOT recycled! https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/plastic-produced-recycling-waste-ocean-trash-debris-environment/ |
Tips for using less energy...
- If you live in a dry climate, you can retrofit your home with strawbale insulation and reduce your heating and cooling bills substantially.
- Change your light bulbs to the florescent type.
- For every incandescent bulb you replace with a compact fluorescent bulb, you'll save the equivalent of about 500 pounds of coal over the life of the bulb, and you'll reduce carbon dioxide by up to 1,300 pounds per year.
- Clean or replace dirty furnace filters on a regular basis.
- heating and cooling systems in the US together emit over a half billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air each year.
- Weatherstrip your home
- Weatherstripping an electrically heated house can keep 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from having to be produced. That means that that if 1,000 of these homes were weatherized, over a million pounds of C02 would be reduced.
- Ceiling fans circulate air, which lowers heating and cooling bills.
- When driving, link your errands together.
- Keep your car tires filled.
- Turn off your lights when not using them.
- Donate your unwanted possessions to charity.