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Individual Actions
FSU
Survey of Green Behavior
The Individual Actions committee designed an electronic
survey that was administered to FSU faculty, staff, and students in Dec.
2007. Topics for questions included transportation, recycling, and energy
conservation. The committee received over 500 survey responses.
Overview
- Survey of Green Behavior
Individual
Actions focus on the steps individuals take that really make a difference.
Consider the following:
If
- Then Statements
Recycled
paper - If every household in the United States replaced one box
of standard facial tissues with 100 percent recycled ones, we could save
87,700
trees and 226,500 cubic feet of landfill space (330 full garbage
trucks)! In addition, we would avoid 5,300 pounds of pollution emissions
(Wordpress,
2007).
If
you recycle a stack of newspapers 4 feet high, then you are saving a good-sized
tree (Sierra Club,
2007).
Recycled
aluminum - If you recycle one aluminum can, you
will save enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost four
hours or run your television for three hours (Earth
911).
Energy
- If every American home replaced just one light bulb
with an ENERGY STAR qualified 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. (Energystar.gov).
If
you line dry your clothes in the spring and summer instead
of using the dryer, you can avoid the emission of about 700 pounds
of carbon dioxide per household, based on Energy Information
Administration averages (Sierra
Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2007).
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USM
News:
USM
goes green: Chancellor launches system-wide sustainability initiative.
"This
initiative ... will make the university system a national leader
in institutional responses to climate change".
View
news release |
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Did you know?
49 percent
of FSU students
walk, bike, carpool, or take public transportation to and from campus
on a regular basis.
43 percent
of FSU students, faculty,
and staff actively encourage others to conserve energy
and resources.
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