Green Tips

Like the IndyCar® Series and the American Le Mans Series, use ethanol-enriched fuel every time you fill up. Last year the IndyCar Series' use of ethanol reduced their fuel needs by 20,000 gallons. And this year, the American Le Mans Series' use of cellulosic E85 racing ethanol will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 80 percent as compared to traditional gasoline. For more information on how motorsports are going green, visit www.indycar.com and www.americanlemans.com. Recycle, recycle, recycle. Did you know that Americans throw more than 195 million tons of trash into landfills each year? How much is that? Well, 2.8 million tons of trash is enough to pile a typical city street 4 feet deep, from curb to curb, for over 200 miles. That's the distance from Omaha, Neb. To Kansas City, Kansas. To learn more about how you can reduce your trash, visit http://earth911.org. Replace your light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs. If every American home replaced just one light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars. And don't limit your replacements to just your home. Replace light bulbs in your workplace and at your children's schools. To learn more, visit www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls Take reusable lunch bags to school or work and cloth bags to the supermarket. Each American uses between 300 to 700 plastic shopping bags per year. By eliminating this use, each person could save 3 to 7 gallons of crude oil. It adds up, a city with approximately 100,000 people could save up to 14,000 barrels of oil per year. To learn more, visit www.reusablebags.com. Ditch the plastic. Use a recyclable water bottle. More than 2.5 million plastic water bottles are discarded each hour in America. And many of these bottles are ending up in our landfills. To learn more about this and other great tips, visit www.stopglobalwarming.org.