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Ten Great Ways to $ave
Green by Going Green
Who am I?
What Gives?
Waste=
Money
1Light Bulbs
Compact Fluorescent Incandescent
Life Span: 60,000 hours 10,000 hours 750 hoursWatts: 6 14 60 Electricity $: $82.17 $191.73 $821.72Bulb cost: $45 $3 $1Bulbs needed: 1 6 80
Total Cost: $127.12 $209.61 $901.52
Source: Productdose.com
Light Emitting Diode
If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an Energy Star qualified bulb, we would save enough money to light _______ homes for a year.
3 Million!
2Energy Star
In 2006, Americans saved ______ on their utility bills by using Energy Star appliances.
$14 Billion
3Phantom Electricity
Get Smart!
A $30 investment in a Smart Power Strip will pay for itselfin as little as ______ weeks.
6 weeks, Y’all!
4Bottled Water
To drink the recommended amount of water in Aquafina, you'd spend _______ a year.
$2,500!!!
Reusable Bottles
5Paper or Plastic?
Every five seconds, the US alone uses _______ plastic bags.
60,000
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
6Junk Mail
Americans spend _______ a year on merchandise from catalogs.
$160 Billion
-www.abucus-us.com
-www.catalogchoice.org
-www.greendimes.com
Junk Mail Resources
7Energy Upgrades
From the new stimulus package, new federal tax creditshave tripled to ______ of the value of energy upgrades, with a cap of ______.
30% $1,500
Cars
8
The average annual cost of owning a car is _______ with insurance, gas, maintenance and depreciation.
$8,580!
2010 Honda Insight
-hybrid electric
-43 mpg
-$18,000 base
smart fortwo:
-currently available
-40+ mpg
-4 star crash rating
-$11,590 base
9Low Flow
Dual Flush Toilet
You can save up to _______ gallons of water a yearby changing an old water-guzzling toilet to a dual flush.
10,000
10
Invest Green
_______ of the $25.1 trillion in the U.S. investment marketplace today is in Socially Responsible Investments.
$2.7 Trillion
-Look for ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance
-Mutual Funds – Calvert (CLGAX), Winslow Green Growth (WGGFX)
-Exchange traded fund – www.ishares.com
-The New Alternatives Fund (NALFX)
-Green Century Funds
SRI Resources
Think Globally.Act Locally.
Questions