Here are 10 simple things you can do and how much carbon dioxide you’ll save doing them:
- Change a light: Replacing one regular light bulb with a compact fluorescent light will save 150 pounds of carbon dioxide per year.
- Drive less: Walk, bike, carpool, or take metro transit more often. You’ll save one pound of carbon dioxide for every mile you don’t drive!
- Recycle more: You can save 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide per year by recycling just half of your household waste.
- Check your tires: Keeping your tires inflated properly can improve gas mileage by more than 3%. Every gallon of gasoline saved keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere!
- Use less hot water: It takes a lot of energy to heat water. Use less hot water by installing a low-flow showerhead (350 pounds of CO2 saved per year) and washing your clothes in cold or warm water (500 pounds saved per year).
- Avoid products with a lot of packaging: You can save 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide if you cut down your garbage by 10%.
- Adjust your thermostat: Moving your thermostat down just 2 degrees in winter and up 2 degrees in summer could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per year.
- Plant a tree: A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime.
- Turn off electronic devices: Simply turning off your television, DVD player, stereo, and computer when you’re not using them will save thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide per year.
- Be a part of the solution: Learn more and get active at ClimateCrisis.net
Taken from the cover of the DVD of An Inconvenient Truth: A GLOBAL Warning (2006)
