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...with compact fluorescents. They?re more expensive, but they last up to 13 times as long and each one saves about half a ton of CO2 over its lifetime. If you exchanged the five most frequently used bulbs in your house for compact fluorescents, you would save about 700 lbs. of CO2 (and $90 in energy costs) a year. If every U.S. household swapped three 75-watt regular bulbs that stay on about six hours a day for three 20-watt compact fluorescents, that would save more than 60 trillion lbs. of CO2 per year?equivalent to the annual emissions...
...live somewhere sunny, install a solar-heating system to help provide hot water. The CO2 savings: up to 720 lbs. a year...
...Recycle! Returning aluminum cans, glass bottles, plastic, newspaper and cardboard can reduce your CO2 output by 850 lbs. annually. Buying food and other items in recyclable or reusable containers saves an additional 230 lbs...
...Plant trees and shrubs around your house. They not only provide shade, which lowers energy consumption, but also store carbon. One deciduous tree can remove 50 lbs. of carbon from the atmosphere annually...
...grass with an old-fashioned push mower instead of a motorized one. Savings: 80 lbs. of CO2 a year...