Global Warming

What Can We Do To STOP Global Warming???

Use Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

Replace your old light bulb with a compact fluorescent one. If you use three compact fluorescent light bulbs in your home you will save 300 pounds of carbon dioxide and $60 per year!

Inflate Your Tires

Having your tires all the way inflated can save you $840 per year and keep 250 lbs. of carbon dioxide out of the air! You can check your tires monthly to make sure.

Change Your Car's Air Filter

Check your car's air filter every month. You can save $130 per year and keep 100 lbs. of CO2 from going in to the atmosphere by doing this small little thing.

Fill the Dishwasher

If you only run your dishwasher when it's full if will save you $40 a year and 100 lbs. of CO2 emission a year.

Adjust Your Thermostat

If you Move your thermostat down two degrees in the winter and up two degrees in the summer you can save up to $98 and 2000 lbs. of carbon dioxide a year.

Change the AC Filter

If you clean or replace dirty air conditioner filters you'll save 350 lbs. of carbon dioxide and up to $150 per year.

Take Shorter Showers

Cut your shower short and you can save 350 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $99 per year.

Install a Low-flow Shower Head

Using less water in the shower means that less energy is used to heat the water, saving 350 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $150 a year .

Buy Minimally Packaged Goods

Buying less packaging reduces garbage up to 30%. You also save 1200 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $1,000 per year.

Carpool When You Can

Carpooling with friends saves fuel. You can also save 790 lbs. of carbon dioxide and hundreds of dollars per year.

Don't Idle In the Car

Idling wastes money and gas, and generates pollution and global warming-causing emissions. Turn your engine off if you have to wait for more than 30 seconds. Only leave it running if your in traffic.

Drive Less

Walk, bike, carpool, or take public transit. You'll save one pound of CO2 for every mile you don't drive.

Reduce Garbage

Recycle paper, plastic and glass, and buy products with less packaging can save you 1,000 Ibs. of CO2 per year.

Plant a Tree

Trees suck up CO2 and create clean air for us to breathe, so we need them to survive. A single tree will absorb one ton (that's 2000 lbs.) of CO2 in the course of its life.

Unplug Un-Used Electronics

Even when electronic devices, like your stereo and phone charger, are turned off, they use energy, so unplug 'em and save over 1,000 lbs. of CO2 and $256 a year.

Put on a Sweater

If you put on a sweater instead of turning up the heat you can save 1,000 lbs. of CO2 and $250 a year.

Air Dry Your Clothes

If the weather is nice, put your laundry on the line to dry. You'll save 700 lbs. of CO2 and up to $75 a year.

Turn Off Your Computer

Shut it off when you're not using it and save 200 lbs. of CO2. Save energy by using your sleep on your computer instead of its screensaver.

Eat Your Greens

The average American diet is full of meat products and thus contributes an extra 1.5 tons (that's 2500+ lbs.) of greenhouse gases per year, compared with a vegetarian diet. Eating 20% less meat makes the same impact as switching to a hybrid car!

Ditch the Plastic

2.5 million individual plastic water bottles are thrown away every hour in the US alone! That is 2.5 million to many. A plastic bottle thrown in a landfill will still be a plastic bottle in 200 years because plastic is not biodegradable! Start using a reusable water bottle and just say no to plastic!

In total, if you did all these things, you would save $3, 448 per year and 9,000 Ibs. of CO2 Per year.

By: Laurel

I got my information from Action Tips: Ways You Can Stop Global Warming.