Green Facts - Residential Environmental Design

Green Facts
If you know of a Green Fact that we should include, head over to the Green Bulletin Board and post it or Contact Us. We throw away enough paper each year to heat 50 million homes for 20 years A gallon of gas burned by our cars, contributes 19 pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. That's 150 tons a year for a car driving just 15,000 miles. One single polystyrene cup contains one billion molecules of CFC's A single CFC atom may remain in the atmosphere for up to 100 years before it becomes harmless. Over 100 million Americans live in areas with air pollution levels considered harmful by the government. Americans dump over 15 tons of sewage into their streams and oceans, every minute. A typical family member uses over 80 gallons of water each day. Plastic bags, and 6-pack holders kill 100,000 marine mammals,and over one million sea birds. Americans throw away enough glass jars and bottles to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. Each year, a typical American family throws away 2,500 pounds of paper, 500 pounds of metal, 500 pounds of glass and food scraps. Americans throw away enough aluminum cans, approximately 40 billion, to reach the moon and back over 20 times. Over 80% of a households annual waste can be recycled One Sunday edition of the New York Times consumes as many as 75,000 trees. If we all recycled 25% of our newspapers, we could save close to 70,000 trees. Every year, over 40 million acres of tropical rainforest are destroyed through burning and logging. A typical 1,700 square-foot wood-frame house requires the equivalent of 1 acre of forest timber. New home construction consumes two-fifths of all the lumber and plywood used in the U.S. each year. The average American house consumes nearly $1,500.00 per year in utilities. These can be reduced as much as 90% by implementing resource efficient methods of construction and utilities. Unlike wood, straw is an annually renewable resource, viewed as a troublesome waste product by American farmers. Two million tons of straw are burned or buried each year by farmers. Enough straw to build 5 million 2,000 s.f. homes. Americans throw away more than 250 million steel belted tires a year. Some of which are being recycled for various products, and some of which are being used for the construction of "earthships".

Green Facts

If you know of a Green Fact that we should include, head
over to the Green Bulletin Board and post it or Contact Us.

We throw away enough paper each year to heat 50 million homes for 20 years
A gallon of gas burned by our cars, contributes 19 pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
- That's 150 tons a year for a car driving just 15,000 miles.
One single polystyrene cup contains one billion molecules of CFC's
A single CFC atom may remain in the atmosphere for up to 100 years before it becomes harmless.
Over 100 million Americans live in areas with air pollution levels considered harmful by the government.
Americans dump over 15 tons of sewage into their streams and oceans, every minute.
A typical family member uses over 80 gallons of water each day.
Plastic bags, and 6-pack holders kill 100,000 marine mammals,and over one million sea birds.
Americans throw away enough glass jars and bottles to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.
Each year, a typical American family throws away 2,500 pounds of paper, 500 pounds of metal, 500 pounds of glass and food scraps.
Americans throw away enough aluminum cans, approximately 40 billion, to reach the moon and back over 20 times.
Over 80% of a households annual waste can be recycled
One Sunday edition of the New York Times consumes as many as 75,000 trees.
If we all recycled 25% of our newspapers, we could save close to 70,000 trees.
Every year, over 40 million acres of tropical rainforest are destroyed through burning and logging.
A typical 1,700 square-foot wood-frame house requires the equivalent of 1 acre of forest timber.
New home construction consumes two-fifths of all the lumber and plywood used in the U.S. each year.
The average American house consumes nearly $1,500.00 per year in utilities. These can be reduced as much as 90% by implementing resource efficient methods of construction and utilities.
Unlike wood, straw is an annually renewable resource, viewed as a troublesome waste product by American farmers.
Two million tons of straw are burned or buried each year by farmers.
- Enough straw to build 5 million 2,000 s.f. homes.
Americans throw away more than 250 million steel belted tires a year.
- Some of which are being recycled for various products, and some of which are being used for the construction of "earthships".