Here are a few ways you can make a difference.

• Using Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs) uses over 75% less electricity than their incandescent counterparts, which results in 75% less CO2 emissions.
• "It takes one 15- to 20-year-old tree to make enough paper for only 700 grocery bags? Bring cloth bags when you shop, and if you forget, put your purchases in as few bags as possible."
  Source: Groovy Green
• On Average Americans consume more than 650 Pounds of paper every year.
• Over your lifetime, you can save 300 trees and enough electricity to power your home for nearly 10 years simply by recycling paper you consume.
• The energy saved from recycling one aluminum can will operate a TV set for 3 hours, and is the equivalent to half of a can of gasoline.
• Every year we throw away 24 million tons of leaves and grass. Leaves alone account for 75% of our solid waste in the fall.