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).