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Help Green Your World Maybe you believe there is global warming and maybe you don’t. Whichever way it is I think we can all agree that saving energy and saving us money as individuals is a win situation. Most of us are busy and think that being green is going to take a lot of time, a lot of money investments, or we just don’t understand how our little contribution will make a difference. Therefore for those and many other reasons we choose not to get involved. What I would like to suggest is that you can make a difference. That doing a few simple little things would save a lot of money in the long run and will only take a few minutes of your time or a few little changes in the way you may do things. If we change one thing a month, 12 things a year multiplied by one billion persons can you imagine the impact on our economy? Each month I will add a few new items that we can all do to help make a difference. So please feel free to come back and check out the new additions to our site. Do one, do them all your choice and pass them on to your family and friends. Water saving tips. Paper saving tips. Energy saving tips. Household tips.

October 2007 Help Green Your World Helpful Hints Simple steps we can all take in our daily routine: Water Tip: Take a shorter shower. Every two minutes you save on your shower can conserve more than ten gallons of water per day. That adds up to 36,500 gallons per year, per person. If everyone in the country saved just one gallon from their daily shower, over the course of a year it would equal twice the amount of freshwater withdrawn from the Great Lakes every day. The Great Lakes are the world’s largest source of fresh water. Energy Tip: Set your thermostat a degree higher for air conditioning and a degree lower for heating. You could save $100 per year on your utility bill. Each degree will save you that much more. If every home in America turned the down their dial we would save more than $10 billion per year in energy costs. That would be enough to provide a years worth of gasoline, electricity, and natural gas to every person in Iowa. Economy Tip: Recycle: If all of us in America simply separated the paper, plastic, glass and aluminum products from our trash and tossed them into a recycling bin, we would decrease the amount of waste sent to our landfills by 75%. Currently it takes an area the size of Pennsylvania to dump all our waste each year. You can see these and other helpful hints in a book called The Green Book. By Authors: Elizabeth Rogers and Tom Kostigen. Thank you for helping clean up our World.!!