Improving Greenage™

Greenage™ grows when you input, adopt, comment on or refine a Creative Solution™. Take some time to find a solution that’s right for you or input one that you’ve already been using. The more you do, the higher your Greenage grows.

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A Great Place To Start and Improve Your Greenage Are These Five Solutions

CARPOOL by Wolf

Sharing a trip with one other person immediately cuts the emissions in half by taking a car off the road. On average a carpool saves 527.8 gallons of gasoline and 4.536 tons of CO2 each year. The average family purchases 1,143 gallons of gas per year.

EAT LESS MEAT by DAVEC

Raising meat for food (livestock) is an environmental disaster, contributing more to global warming than transportation, using up 30% of the Earth’s land (yes, that’s right, 30% of the entire land mass of the Earth is used directly or indirectly in livestock production), contributing to significant water pollution, using up tons of energy and water for raising and transporting livestock, etc. For example, it takes 2500 gallons of water to produce 1 lb of meat. The average American eats 185 lbs of meat per year, meaning 462,500 gallons of water can be saved by moving to a vegetarian diet!

TUNE YOUR CAR REGULARLY by Argam

Keep your engine tuned properly. Checking spark plugs, oxygen sensors, air filters, hoses and belts are a few examples of maintenance that can save a vehicle owner up to 165 gallons of gas per year, resulting in potential savings of over $600.>

ELIMINATE JUNK MAIL by karlbach

* Junk mail destroys 100 million trees a year — the equivalent of deforesting all of Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.
* Largely due to deforestation, junk mail manufacturing creates as much greenhouse gas emissions annually as 3.7 million cars.
* Every year, Americans receive 848 pieces of junk mail per household — 44% of which ends up unopened in a landfill

DON’T WATER YOUR LAWN EVERY DAY by Ghengis

The amount of water used by a sprinkler in one hour is equal to the daily water needs of a family of four! The average sprinkler will use in excess of 240 gallons of water per hour. If the average person sprinkles every day for a half hour and reduced that to once a week, one could save 37,560 gallons a year!! This is huge!

These 5 solutions were featured on: EcoTimes