Group Writing Campaign English 2010

Amy HamblinDevin Jaynes

Rebecca MillerChris Weed

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Pollution & Global Emissions-1990: 22.6 billion tons-2007: 31 billion tons

37% increaseGlobal Warming

-Earth’s temperature expected to rise by 4-6°C Depletion of natural resources

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Paper

• Americans use 50 million tons of paper/year• Average employee uses 10,000 sheets of

paper/year• A pine tree = 8,300 sheets of paper• 200 employees = 240 trees annually

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Grassroots of Going Green Office Tip #1

• Go Paperless, use electronic documents!

• Print double-sided (decreases paper usage by 75%)

• Use recycled paper products– Forty cases of copy paper made from 100%

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Energy• Power off, unplug

– Don’t forget calculators, fans, heaters & radios

• Turn off lights• Use energy efficient or Energy Star

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Grassroots of Going Green Office Tip #2

• Lights average 44% of the total of an office’s power consumption!

• *CFLs use 1/4 the energy & last 10 times longer– Saves 50 % on lighting

• Try not use any desk lights if possible and open window blinds instead

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Grassroots of Going Green Office Tip #3

Your work computer monitor works late into the night even if you’re not there!

• Screensavers do not save power. They do just the opposite compared to just turning off the monitor

• Even if your computer needs to stay on at night to run programs, it doesn’t need your monitor

• Don’t be wasteful, but if you have the opportunity, trade your monitor for a LCD one. LCD’s use much less power then the CRT monitors do

• Set your computer to go to sleep if not being used for more then ten minutes

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Each day Americans produce enough trash

= weight of the Empire State Building450 years to break down

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Grassroots of Going Green Office Tip #4

Watch the Waste• Start recycling program at work

• Every ton of paper recycled saves more than 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space.

• Recycle office equipment, paper, supplies, donate• Don’t use paper or plastic utensils, plates, cutlery etc.

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FOAM It’s not as harmless as you think.

For more information on the health risks associatedwith polystyrene serving containers, follow the link tothe International Agency for Research on Cancer at

http://www.iarc.fr/

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Other Things to Go Green:• Telecommute, carpool, public

transportation– *$7 Billion per year

• Purchase environmentally friendly supplies

• Hold net meetings online

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*2005 report by the National Environmental Education Foundation