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The average American consumes five times more energy than the average global citizen or 10 times more than the typical Chinese.
If the typical Chinese consumer used as much oil as the average American uses, China would require 90 million barrels per day—11 million more than the entire world produced each day in 2001.
Source: Worldwatch Institute
Way to impress the pants right off of us, Los Angeles!
Los Angeles is going to start a new pilot program with RecycleBank that will compensate households for recycling! The hope is that the city’s recycling rate will go up from 65% to over 70%.
15,000 homes will be eligible for the program and the contents of their tagged bins will be weighed and recorded each week. Depending on the weight, residents earn points that they can redeem at businesses like CVS, Bed Bath & Beyond, and El Pollo Loco. The total tally can reach the equivalent of $400 a year per household!
Super-impressive initiative, LA! Cincinnati…take notes!
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Bottled water is not evil. Sure, it’s gotten a bad rap in the past few years…everything from plastic bottles taking over our landfills to causing cancer. In theory, those things are true, and yes, bottled water can be frowned upon in that regard.
Here’s the upside…keep bottled water out of extremely high temperatures, for instance, your car. Some scientist believe that the plastic can omit toxins into the water when the bottles are extremely hot, thus, perhaps, being the cause of breast cancer. Simply keep your bottles out of the heat and the plastic is otherwise harmless.
About the landfills…Our landfills are being polluted with millions of water bottles. Since the bottles take an estimated 600-1000 years to decompose, it’s an absolutely horrible idea to throw the bottles into the trash. Sadly, only 10% of plastic water bottles are recycled in the US. That means a whopping 90% are going straight to the landfills. It’s so easy to recycle. If you don’t…you should start.
At the end of the day, bottled water is not evil. It can be an evil if you aren’t properly disposing of the bottles and you are letting them sit in a car all day omitting toxins into the water. As long as you follow the rules, bottled water can be a very, very good thing.
Certain greens can help remove indoor air pollutants like formaldehyde and benzene. English Ivy is an easy-to-grow toxin fighter.
Did you know that plasma-screen high-definition TVs can use nearly twice as much energy as their LCD screen counterparts, and more than three times as much as the standard models? TVs account for 4 percent of our energy use nationally. With plasma screens, that could reach 8 percent or more before the decade is out.
