Tips for Green Living

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Tips for Green Living

• Dina Barnese
• Information Technology Services

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Green The New Buzz Word

• Green Living A lifestyle intended to ensure that
  one's impact on the environment and personal
  health is as minimal (or as positive) as possible

Because, after all, we only have one Earth
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Facts Junk Mail

• 100 million trees
• Heat for 250,000 homes with one days supply
• 4 million tons delivered each year

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Tip Reduce Paper Junk Mail

• Sign up with the Direct Marketing Association
  (DMA)
• Visit Junkbusters to learn how to remove your
  address from other lists!
• Call the catalog company

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Benefits of Reducing Junk Mail

• Reduce paper demand
• Reduce fossil fuel usage and carbon emissions
• Paper production
• Delivery
• Reduce hassle!
• Save time!

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Facts Plastic Shopping Bags

• 500 billion to 1 trillion per year one million
  per minute
• 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually 4
  Billion
• Animals eat discarded bags. They die.
• Plastic bags photodegrade

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Tip Avoid Plastic Shopping Bags

• Only getting an item or two? Carry them without a
  bag
• Get some reusable cloth shopping bags
• Keep them in the car
• A great habit to get the kids into
• Reuse plastic shopping bags
• Recycle (Albertsons, New Frontiers)

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Benefits of Reducing Plastic Shopping Bag Use

• Reduce litter
• Reduce animal deaths
• Reduce environmental toxins
• Reduce fossil fuel usage

Save - some stores give a discount if you BYOB!
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Facts Our Food Travels Far!

• Average distance is 1500 to 2500 miles
• Even further? New Zealand, Chile, Costa Rica

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Tip Buy Local/Regional Foods

• Buy as locally as possible (choose a Washington
  apple over a NZ apple)
• Join the Flagstaff Community Supported
  Agriculture program
• Shop at the Flagstaff Community Market during the
  summer months
• Buy regional honey, tortillas, corn products,
  green chiles, etc.

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Benefits of Buying Local Foods

• Support local economy
• Support local environment
• Reduce oil usage
• Reduce carbon emissions
• Know what you are consuming

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Facts Hazardous Waste

• Types of waste
• Corrosive
• Battery acid
• Toxic
• Pesticides, cleaning products, paints
• Ignitable
• charcoal lighter fluid, nail polish remover.
• Reactive
• Ooooo, scary!

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Tip Use the City of Flagstaff HPC

• City of Flagstaff Household Hazardous Waste
  Program
• HPC Drop and Swap

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Benefits of the HHWP at the HPC

• A safe place to dispose of hazardous products
• FREE paint, garden chemicals, household
  chemicals, etc.
• Reduce, reuse, recycle saves you

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Facts- Light Bulbs

• Incandescent bulbs lose energy through heat
• Lighting consumes 22 of the electrical power
  generated in the U.S. 

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Tip Use CFLs or LEDs

• Spend the extra for a CFL
• Replace with LEDs for even more savings
• Replace Holiday lights with LEDs for significant
  energy savings

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Benefits of CFL LED

• CFL
• Last 10 times longer and provide equivalent light
• Use 75 percent less energy
• LED
• Low power consumption
• Long life span
• Both save

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Facts Disposables

• 64 billion paper cups and plates are thrown away
• 73 billion styrofoam cups and plates are thrown
  away
• 190 billion plastic containers bottles are
  landfilled or incinerated

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Tip Bring Your Own

• Coffee shop? Travel mug.
• Keep a plate, bowl, mug and set of utensils at
  work
• Be really radical bring your own take-home
  container when you go out to eat

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Benefits of Bringing Your Own

• Less trash for the landfill
• Less use of oil (styrofoam) and trees (paper
  products)
• Save - local coffee shops give a discount when
  you bring your own mug (Late for the Train,
  Macys, Campus Coffee Bean)

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Facts on Bottled Water

• 150 billion liters of bottled water per year
• Very high fossil fuel usage
• Toxins in the water?

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Tips for Bottled Water

• Keep a water bottle at work, take to meetings
• Traveling? Fill a few water bottles and put them
  in a cooler.
• Check city water quality online

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Benefits of Avoiding Bottled H2O

• Less plastic usage
• Less fossil fuel usage thus less carbon
  emissions
• Possible health benefits
• Save - bottled water is expensive!

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Sources

• Junk mail stats http//www.epa.state.oh.us/opp/co
  nsumer/junkmail.html
• Direct Marketing Association https//www.dmaconsu
  mers.org/cgi/offmailing
• Junkbusters http//www.junkbusters.com/
• Plastic bag stats http//www.reusablebags.com/fac
  ts.php
• Purchase reusable plastic pags
  http//www.reusablebags.com
• Food travel stats http//www.foodroutes.org/
• Flagstaff Community Supported Agriculture
  program http//flagcsa.org/
• Flagstaff Community Market http//www.flagstaffma
  rket.com/
• Hazardous Waste stats http//www.cdc.gov/nasd/doc
  s/d001201-d001300/d001236/d001236.html
• City of Flagstaff Hazardous Products Center
  http//www.flagstaff.az.gov/index.asp?SID638
• Light Bulb Stats http//www.energystar.gov/index.
  cfm?ccfls.pr_cfls
• One Billion Bulbs http//www.onebillionbulbs.com/
  
• Disposables stats- http//www.worldcentric.org/bio
  /index.htm
• Bottled Water stats - http//www.answers.com/topic
  /bottled-water-2

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Other Resources

• The Green Guide www.thegreenguide.com
• The 100 Mile Diet - 100milediet.org/home/
• Slow Food USA - www.slowfoodusa.org/index.html
• LED Holiday Lights - www.environmentallights.com
• Reusable Bags www.ecobags.com
• Earth 911 - www.earth911.org
• SIGG Swiss Engineered Water Bottles
  www.mysigg.com
• Engines Off Campaign - www.enginesoff.org

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Thanks

• A special thanks to
• NAU Bookstore
• New Frontiers Natural Marketplace
• City of Flagstaff Hazardous Products Center