I attended another class on “going green” and thought I would share some interesting trivia with you

Q. If Americans used a refillable mug for the coffee on their way to work for just one week, it would save enough trees to fill how many football fields?

A. 2 football fields!

Q. What produces 5% of our planet’s carbon footprint?

A. Cement production!

Q. It’s estimated that 32 million cars and trucks on the U.S. highways are running on at least two under-inflated tires. How many gallons of gas does this waste annually?

A. 500 Million gallons!

Q. One tree can filter out how many pounds of pollutants from the air each year?

A. 60 pounds!

Q. Compact fluorescent light bulbs last how much longer than regular incandescent ones?

A. 10 times & they use 1/4 of the electricity!

Q. Albuquerque ranks where in the list of cities with maximum potential for economic use of solar and/or photovoltaic as a source of energy for residential dwellings?

A. 2nd! (Bakersfield is 1st)

Q. Laptop computers use less energy that desktop computers. How much less?

A. 90% less!

Please share with me some ideas and practices you are currently doing to preserve and maintain our environment. Id love to hear them and possibly put them to use myself!!

A tankless water heater never runs out of hot water. Instead of the traditional tank, the heater is filled with small pipes that are surrounded by a gas burner or an electric coil. The water is heated on demand, as it is used, saving from a quarter to a third of the cost of heating water, perhaps $100 annually.

Always having hot water available means less is available at any given time.

Installing multiple tankless units offers a solution. The tankless units are the size of a small suitcase, so several can be placed together near the locations in your house needing hot water, which increases efficiency.

Any of you already have these installed in your homes? Tell me your experiences!