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Simple things you can do everyday in the home: 

Shorten your shower by just 2 minutes.  Turing the shower water off 2 minutes earlier than normal will save 10 gallons of water and that adds up considerably.  You want to make a difference in our planet’s water resources?  If all of us saved just one gallon of water from our daily shower, in one year it would equal t times the amount of freshwater taken from the Greak Lakes everyday.  The Great Lakes are the world’s largest source of freshwater…now  isn’t that something you’d like to help protect? 

Think Big by forming small habits.

Thermostats

Just One Degree- Up  In the Summer, and Down in the Winter could save nearly $100 per year on heating and cooling costs for your home.  Adjust a bit more, and save more!  How about a 10 billion dollar savings?  If we all just turned the dial down in the winter and up in the summer, we’d still be comfortable with a few clothing adjustments.  

The savings would be so large, to envision it, think of fuel for everyone in a state the size of Iowa for one year, free!

Recycle

We hear this all the time but it’s huge!!  Before you toss it, think about who could use it, or what could it be turned into??  Plus, if we just separated out our paper, plastic and glass from the trash, along with a bin for the aluminum products, the amount of waste sent to landfills would be decreased by 75%.  75%!! 

Right now,  our national waste would fill up the state of Pennsylvania.

 Hey, I’ve got an idea, since Texas is talking recession, maybe we could turn the state into a waste area…sorry, just spouting off about dump grounds, and thought of Texas, Bush, you know how it is.

No?  Well, where do you want your 4.5 pounds of daily trash to go?

We have to do something, folks.  We can’t just ignore the planet. 

Did You Know:  Americans are using at least w times as much water and energy per person as anyone else in the world.  That’s a pretty big problem considering the resources seem to be drying up.  What shall we do when there isn’t enough to go around anymore? 

Talk about a war.