Every moment you spend idling your car's engine means needlessly wasting gas, as well as rougher wear on your vehicle. Idling for more than 10 seconds wastes more gas than is needed for startup. Overall, Americans idle away 2.9 billion gallons of gas a year, worth around $78.2 billion.
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Every gallon of gasoline you burn produces 19 pounds of carbon dioxide. On the highway, try not to exceed a speed of 55 miles per hour. Not only are you less likely to get into an accident, but the faster you drive, the more fuel your vehicle consumes per mile.
• At 65 mph you're burning 10% more fuel than at 55
• At 70 you lose 17% of your fuel economy
• At 75 it’s 25%. The numbers get worse from there.
If the national speed limit were reset to 55, it would save 1 billion barrels of oil per year -- more than the U.S. imports from the Persian Gulf.
Chances are you can turn down the thermostat on your home’s water heater a few degrees, and still have plenty of hot water for everyone’s daily shower, not to mention the dishes and laundry and save money on your power bill.
Installers and builders often jack up a water heater’s temperature to 140 degrees F. But it’s not necessary for households to keep the appliance set to anything over 120 degrees F.
Lowering the temperature from 140 to 120 would reduce your water heating costs by 6 to 10%.
There is 220,000 tons of paper produced specifically for printing receipts in the United States each year. More than that, each ton of paper is the equivalent of 17 trees. So, 17 trees times 220,000 tons is 3.74 million trees that are cut just for receipts in the United States each year.
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Get rid of junk mail or at least recycle it. The average US household receives 1.5 tree’s worth of junk mail each year – and the majority of this is tossed into the trash can, not recycled. You can reduce the amount of junk mail you receive – you can register with a Mail Preference Service and for $1 you can be taken off the junk mail list. But if you don’t want to register at least recycle the junk mail, you can even recycle envelopes that have a plastic window. If all Americans recycled their junk mail, it would save $370 million in landfill dumping fees each year.
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Pay Bills Online and save natural resources -- as well as late fees. Enroll in easy, online bill-paying options with your bank, credit card companies, cable and utility providers.
Paperless billing not only saves trees; it also eliminates the fossil fuel needed to get all those dozens and dozens of billing envelopes from them to you and back again.
Plus, you'll save money on stamps, which can really add up over time. That will cut down on inks and adhesives needed by the U.S. Post Office, and every little bit helps.
If every American household paid bills online instead of received paper bills - It would eliminate 56,000 garbage trucks of solid waste annually.
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Pack lighter When Flying
When traveling by plane - every additional 10 pounds per traveler requires an additional 350 million gallons of jet fuel per year, which is enough to keep a 747 flying continuously for 10 years.
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The world of documentary film has been receiving increased attention in the film industry in the past decade for its unique presentation of real life events. This interest can be seen by the notoriety of such films such as Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 film “Super Size Me” or Al Gore’s famous documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, to be held April 3-6 in downtown Durham, is as an excellent opportunity to view an array of nation’s top up-and-coming documentary films. Recognized as the premier documentary film festival in the United States by both The New York Times and indieWIRE, Full Frame is an arena for documentary filmmakers to showcase their work theatrically in an environment that stimulates conversation and community between filmmakers, industry executives and the general public.
Full Frame Documentary film festival will screen the U.S. premiere of Samuel Goldwyn Films and Red Envelope Entertainment's “Trumbo” on its opening night. “Trumbo” profiles legendary screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and brings together some of Hollywood’s leading actors, including Joan Allen, Michael Douglas, Dustin Hoffman, Nathan Lane and more, to paint a portrait of the writer in his own pungent words. The film festival will showcase more than 100 films of all different genres and is sure to be an enlightening and entertaining presentation of the year’s top documentary films.
Explore the new trend in films and check out some excellent documentaries at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in downtown Durham, April 3-6. Advance tickets to Full Frame Documentary Film Festival can be purchased online until Wednesday, April 2 at www.fullframefest.org/boxoffice/ or by calling 1-800-514-3849, Monday-Friday 6 a.m.- 9 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Advance Tickets cost $15 plus an online convenience fee. In addition, day of show and last-minute tickets will be sold at the festival on a first come first served basis for $10. So come out to the festival, see some films, and enjoy what will surely be an eye-opening exposé. You won’t regret it.
There is no need to grab a huge stack of paper napkins at a concession stand when you only need a couple. Each American consumes on average 2,200 2-ply paper napkins a year – that equals 6 per day. If everyone in the United States used an average of one less napkin per day more than a billion pounds of paper napkins could be saved from landfills each year – a stack of napkins this size could fill the entire Empire State Building.
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For everyone that loves a great Broadway show, but cannot hop on jet to New York City for the weekend (i.e. most of us in the Triangle area), now there is a new alternative: the Durham Performing Arts Center. The new venue is located in the historic American Tobacco District of downtown Durham and is set to finish construction in late 2008. The facility will be largest performing arts center of its kind between Atlanta and the megalopolis and promises the best direct-from-New York Broadway hit shows each and every season.
The Durham Performing Arts Center is currently offering an early bird special for anyone who would like to guarantee season tickets to the theater’s inaugural shows in late 2008 and early 2009. The special is only available until July 1 and lends customers the opportunity to see all of the season’s hot Broadway shows at a highly discounted rate with additional perks such as discounted parking, home ticket delivery and ticket exchange. For a $180 one can attend all of the center’s shows including Rent, Legally Blonde, Fiddler on the Roof and The Color Purple, in addition to garnering a front-of-the-line spot to reserve tickets to the highly-acclaimed show Wicked, in the 2009-2010 season. The deal guarantees tickets to the primetime shows including Friday and Saturday evening and Saturday and Sunday matinee and places viewers on the well-coveted front balcony area of the theater as well. Considering no seat in the theater is more than 135 feet away, there will not be a bad seat in the house.
Start thinking ahead and get season tickets today! Paying $45 to see Rent on a Friday night from the front mezzanine is a steal and will only be around for a limited time. Be an early bird! To reserve season tickets or find out more regarding Broadway Carolina and the Durham Performing Arts Center, check out their Web site or call (919) 680-ARTS.
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