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 [...]
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Five Friday Facts: The Greenness of Direct Deposit
July 23rd, 2010 
Justin Manger 
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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 [...]
Posted in Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Transportation Tags: Cars, iPod/iPhone App No Comments »Colorado Oil Spill Facts
June 29th, 2010 Eric Wilson In light of the BP oil spill, The Denver Post ran an article yesterday reporting on oil spills in the state of Colorado. Natural gas and oil exploration and extraction are major industries, especially on the state’s Western Slope (the region on the western side of the Continental Divide). Here are some of the intriguing [...]
Five Friday Facts: Tradeshows and Conventions
June 18th, 2010 Eric Wilson The following Five Friday Facts come courtesy of Wild Blue Yonder In-flight Magazine (May/June 2010). These facts are all about trade shows and conventions. According to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, there are 14,000 trade shows and exhibitions in the U.S. and Canada each year. Comprised of 11,000 industry events and 3,000 consumer shows, [...]
Five Friday Facts: World Cup Edition
June 11th, 2010 Justin Manger “The Beautiful Game” of soccer, the world’s most popular sport, begins its fevered quadrennial tournament of hype, excitement, defeat, and victory as teams from around the planet begin battling it out today at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The U.S. takes on England tomorrow June 12th at 2:30pm Eastern Time on ABC. As the [...]
Posted in Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Transportation Tags: Africa, Carbon Dioxide No Comments »Five Friday Facts: How Much We Recycle
June 4th, 2010 Justin Manger What We Recycle (United States) Waste Material Total Amount Amount Recycled Recycling Rate Paper 77.4 million tons 42.9 million tons 56% Plastic 30 million tons 2.1 million tons 7.1% Glass 12.2 million tons 2.8 millions tons 23.1% Aluminum 3.4 million tons 720,000 tons 21.1% ALL WASTE 249.6 million tons 82.9 million tons 33.2% From Washington [...]
