At Green Mountain, we break sustainability down into five manageable pieces: energy, water, waste, transportation and the carbon footprint resulting from each of those activities.
With all of that in mind, we illustrated the impact we all could have by individually and collectively addressing those areas in the Earth Day Every Day infographic below.
We hope it helps you think more about how to put the Earth first in your everyday actions and that you share it with your friends and family to make this April 22 the best Earth Day yet.
Sources
Energize smartly:
- Gartner, Computer Sales Statistics, as reported by Statistic Brain
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Table 1
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Table 5A and U.S. EIA, Table 1.1
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), ENERGY STAR Office Equipment Savings Calculator and U.S. EPA, eGRID
Act water wise:
- Ask.com
- Howstuffworks
- National Geographic, What Is Your Water Footprint?
- Public Broadcasting Service
- Rain Garden Network
- U.S. Census Bureau
Ramp up recycling:
- American Forest & Paper Association
- Conservatree
- Project Performance Corporation
- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Waste Management
Try transit:
- Electric Drive Transportation Association
- Federal Highway Administration
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Reference.com
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Energy Information Administration
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and U.S. EPA, Emission Factors for Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Help cut carbon:
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics
- Federal Highway Administration
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Energy Information Administration
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Emission Factors for Greenhouse Gas Inventories, U.S. EPA, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States: Facts and Figures, U.S. EPA, Waste Reduction Model (WARM) and U.S. EPA, eGRID
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