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What Impact Do Your Green Choices Have? Cool Energy Saving Equivalencies: If 50 people take the Good Neighbor pledge and reduce their energy use by 2% this year, they will save the equivalent of an entire family's energy use. If 2,000 people take the Good Neighbor pledge, it's like taking 500 cars off the road! If 90 Good Neighbors cut their showers by five minutes per day for a year, it saves enough water to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool. If you replace one quarter of your light bulbs with fluorescents, you can save about 50 percent on your lighting bill. For every two minutes a car is idling, it uses about the fuel it takes to go about one mile. If you play outside instead of watching TV for five hours a week, you’ll lose four pounds in a year. If you clean out dryer lint three times, it saves the same amount of energy as a whole dryer run. Useful Energy Saving Facts: Ever touch an incandescent light bulb when it’s on? All that heat costs money, especially in summer when you are air conditioning your house. Some appliances use energy when “off.” A surge protector can cost $5 and can save you $60 a year to turn off those appliances. Turning down your water heater temperature 10 degrees prevents scalding and saves $15 per year. Aggressive driving uses more gas, on average $250 per year. Choose products with less packaging and recycle what you can. The average American generates four pounds of trash per day. Turn off the pilot light in gas fireplaces in summer. It costs $8-18 per month just for a pilot light. If you replace your holiday lights with LED lights, you’ll use 10% of the energy. Instead of the average $13 to light up your home, it’s $1.30. |
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