The following five Friday facts come via Rocky Mountain Institute’s Reinventing Fire pamphlet. Despite new technologies, codes, and design strategies, the U.S. building stock is not much more energy efficient than it was twenty-five years ago – it uses 70 percent of the U.S. electricity, half of which is made from coal. Transportation uses 70 [...]
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Five Friday Facts – RMI’s Reinventing Fire
July 30th, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
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Tags: Coal, Electricity Generation, Nuclear, RMI 
No Comments »Five Friday Facts: The Greenness of Direct Deposit
July 23rd, 2010 Justin Manger A company with 300 employees issuing paychecks every other week only via direct deposit would: save 121 pounds of paper, 1,159 gallons of wastewater and 45 gallons of gas annually. Getting rid of paper paychecks would translate to a $57,000 annual savings for a company employing 300 people. PayItGreen shows that 72% of employees in [...]
Five Friday Facts
July 16th, 2010 Justin Manger This week’s five Friday facts come from David Bach’s Go Green, Live Rich. Bach’s book also provided last week’s facts. If all U.S. households received electronic statements instead of paper, and paid their bills online, we’d collectively save 18.5 million trees every year. General Electric saved $6.5 million in electricity costs a year simple by [...]
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July 9th, 2010 Eric Wilson In Copenhagen, Denmark, 36 percent of the population – about 600,000 people – bike to work and school everyday on more than 200 miles of bike lanes. 40% of all car trips we make in the United States are less than two miles Depending on where you live, 75 – 90% of your waste can [...]
Posted in Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Recylcing, Transportation Tags: Bicycles, Cars, Waste No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Cars, Traffic, and Parking
July 2nd, 2010 Justin Manger 600 million passenger cars on the road around the world By 2030, 40 “megacities”- urban areas with more than 10 million residents- are expected to develop around the world 30% of traffic in cities worldwide is caused by people driving around looking for parking, according to a 2007 UCLA study. 45% of the traffic in [...]
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