Green Energy Facts

Fun Energy facts, supplied by Green Builder Magazine...

* Number of times you could circle the globe each year with discarded magazines, by laying them end to end: 60

* Percent of energy that is wasted by air infiltration and exfiltration in most homes: 40% - 50%

* Amount of idling time needed to warm up a car, even on winter days: 30 seconds

* Percent by which humans are consuming the planet's resources faster than the earth can renew them: 25%

* One reason noncommercial US vehicles are using at least 938 million more gallons of gasoline annually than they did in 1960: drivers are heavier, on average, by 25 pounds

* Amount that energy consumption could be cut over the next 15 years, if households and industry use current products and technology, and government encourages efficiency and savings instead of consumption: 50%

* Number of Boeing 747 airplanes that could be built each year with aluminum from cans discarded by the US airline industry: 58

Fun facts - we can all do a little better.