eco centric
eco your ego climate change and college so...what happens next? what can i do?
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College is supposed to be the best 4 years of your life. Throughout the incredible experiences college has to offer shapes you as a person. From your academic achievements to your social nightlife, everything is being thrown in your path as an obstacle to overcome. It is in college that you find yourself. You acquire all types of responsibilities and obligations to not only others around you but to yourself! So as you change through these influential four years of you life, one adjustment we all need to become very familiar with is having an eco-friendly state of mind. Before is was a concern but now it is reality. Being green is no longer a choice and is becoming a global movement. It is our generation that needs to adapt to a more efficient lifestyle since our resources on this planet are diminishing and our population is booming. Making a change this time needs to be permanent for so many reasons. Support you future and your children’s future. Make a change for the better of human kind.
climate change and college
green generation
WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE AND WHY DOES IT PERTAIN TO COLLEGE STUDENTS? Climate includes patterns of temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind and seasons. “Climate change” affects more than just a change in the weather, it refers to seasonal changes over a long period of time. These climate patterns play a fundamental role in shaping natural ecosystems, and the human economies and cultures that depend on them. Because so many systems are tied to climate, a change in climate can affect many related aspects of where and how people, plants and animals live, such as food production, availability and use of water, and health risks.
So why does this matter to college students? Between the ages of 18-23 , college students are forced to make the transition from having their parents telling them what to do to making their own decisions. It is during this time frame that we start making our own lifestyle habits. By providing a guide that explains the global nature of climate change, one can become more enlightened of the significance these practices play in our future.
“100,000 cars can be fueled from a single years worth of bottle production. That is around 247 cars that could be fueled per day.”
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WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL? we’ve heard it time and time again: recycle, reduce, reuse. so why has it suddenly become such an issue?
Be an intellectual. Get Educated. Make an eco-friendly lifestyle change.
Well nature is saying it this time. Global warming and climate change are the result of human existence and industry. Although we have experienced an economic boom from the production of fossil fuels, it has taken and even larger toll on the health of our planet. You cannot see it, hear it, touch it, taste it, or feel it (except for this past exceptionally warm winter), so this is a problem we have yet to personally experience a consequence from. How do we react to a problem without being exposed to the consequences?
what is oil used for?
Of the 85 million barrels of oil used everyday..
=1 million barrels
asphalt, farming equipment, plastics, styrophoam, clothing, and thousands of other products.
44% is made into gasoline 35% is made into other fossil fuels 22% is the rest... Transition 1.0
“The ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ is actually twice the size of Texas and is composed of 90%plastic bottles. It is located in the middle of the pacific ocean.”
chemicals in cosmetics,
so what is oil?
oil is what everything is made from. it is a limited resource. it takes hundreds of millions of years to form. peak oil is when oil extraction rates peak out and begin to decline. every oil well maxes out and begins to decline... whole countries max out and decline. and the environment?
Although much of the world depends on the production or trade of oil to fuel its economies, these activities can cause severe damage to the environment, either knowingly or unintentionally. Oil production and transportation can disrupt the human population and the animal and fish life of the region. Oil waste dumping, production pollution, and spills wreak havoc on the surrounding wildlife and habitat. It threatens the extinction of several plants, and has already harmed many land, air, and sea animal and plant species.
The environmental damage that is a result of oil retraction and production can also directly effect human life in the region. Damage can include pollution of water resources and contamination of the soil. Humans are effected by environmental devastation because it is damaging to vegetation, livestock, and to the health of the human body itself. Oil spills can interfere with the normal working of power stations and desalination plants that require a continuous supply of clean seawater and with the safe operation of coastal industries and ports.
The effects of oil on marine life are caused by either the physical nature of the oil (physical contamination and smothering) or by its chemical components (toxic effects and accumulation leading to tainting). Marine life may also be affected by clean-up operations or indirectly through physical damage to the habitats in which plants and animals live. The animals and plants most at risk are those that could come into contact with a contaminated sea surface: marine animals and reptiles; birds that feed by diving or form flocks on the sea; marine life on shorelines; and animals and plants in mariculture facilities.
Environmental damage can also be a result of conflict over oil-producing regions. Environmental harm associated with oil resources can either be attributed to a side effect of conflict, or, in some cases, it is associated with military aggression that is intended to damage the natural resources of the region.
Runoffs from petroleum processing and petrochemical plants have dumped tons of toxic wastes into nearby waters. Gas and oil pipelines have stanched many creeks and rivers, swamping prime pastures and cropland. Furthermore, entire bays and lagoons along coasts have been fouled by oil spills and runoff of toxic chemicals.
problems fossil fuels have caused:
OIL WARS
Climate change
p o l l u t i o n
Dependence on foreign sources
f r o m
f e r t i l i z e r
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ECONOMIC DEPRESSIONS g l o b a l wa r m i n g
Prices go up
S ho r t a g es o f all kin d s it goes on and on and on...so when will peak oil happen? the date is uncertain, but one thing is certain...
Transition 1.0 / www1.american.edu
“7.5 million bottles are used every week. That adds up to 38 billion per year.�
air pollution Acid rain
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No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuels. -David Goodstein ‘Out of Gas’
If oil is conserved, demand will shrink and clean renewable alternatives are put in place. local agriculture is encouraged, fewer cars on the road, and a sustainable healthy future ensues!
“You can refill one bottle of water which costs $1.35 once a day for ten years with tap water before it would cost that amount.�
so you thought you knew it all take a deeper look
Transition 1.0
have you heard of...
Greenwashing have you heard of...
Downcycling?
are you effected by...
Bio-Accumulation? what is your...
are you aware of your...
Water Footprint?
Environmental Footprint?
do you contribute to...
Post Consumer Waste?
are you aware of your...
Carbon Footprint?
do you know how to be...
Sustainable? have you heard of...
Upcycling?
do you know where to get...
Renewable Energy? what has an...
End-of-Life? do you know how to be...
Carbon Neutral?
can you participate in...
Systems Thinking?
do you know what is...
Biodegradable?
do you know what is...
Biomass?
do you know what is...
Biomimicry? can you be...
Eco-efficient?
what is the purpose of... do you know about...
Carbon Labeling?
De-inking?
The act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service. sinsofgreenwashing.org Most recycled industrial materials lose viability or value in the process of recycling. This means they can only be used in a degraded form for components other than their original use. White writing paper is often downcycled into materials such as cardboard and cannot be used to create more writing paper. sustainabilitydictionary.com
Bioaccumulation is the increased concentration of toxic substances in wildlife as it moves up the food web .For example when fish ingest toxins in the water from oil spills, they are consumed by larger fish. These fish are then caught and put on the market for consumer consumption which puts us at risk. nwf.org
It measures how much land and water area a human population requires to produce the resource it consumes and to absorb its carbon dioxide emissions, using prevailing technology. The water footprint of an individual, community or business is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the business. waterfootprint.org
footprintnetwork.org
Post-consumer waste is the garbage that individuals routinely discard, either in a waste receptacle or a dump, or by littering, incinerating, pouring down the drain or washing into the gutter. thedailygreen.com
Carbon Footprint refers to the total greenhouse gas emissions that result from a person, organization, product or service over a given time. There is not a standardized method of calculation. ecowho.com
Sustainable developments are those that meet present needs without compromising the ability of our future generations to meet their needs. arch.wsu.edu
The process of converting an industrial nutrient (material) into something of similar or greater value, in its second life. Aluminum and glass, for example, can usually be upcycled into the same quality of aluminum and glass as the original products. sustainabilitydictionary.com
Energy obtained from sources that are essentially inexhaustible, unlike, for example, the fossil fuels, of which there is a finite supply. Renewable sources of energy include wood, waste, geothermal, wind, photovoltaic, and solar thermal energy. ecowho.com
E-O-L is a term used with respect to a product supplied to customers, indicating that the product is in the end of its useful lifetime It can now be recycled, reused, or permanently disposed.
Compensating for the amount of carbon dioxide an entity generates through either obtaining energy from renewable sources or offsetting. ecowho.com
An approach to problem-solving that assumes the individual problem is part of a much larger complex system, and seeks a solution that does not create further, unanticipated problems further down the road.
Material that can be broken down into simpler substances (elements and compounds) by bacteria or other decomposers. Paper and most organic wastes such as animal manure are biodegradable. ecowho.com
naturalstepusa.org
Organic, non-fossil material that is available on a renewable basis. Biomass includes all biological organisms, dead or alive, and their metabolic by products, that have not been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum. sustainabilitydictionary.com
Biomimicry is a new discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.
Eco-efficiency combines techniques that enhance the productivity of natural resources, foster environmental protection, and employ renewable, alternative processes that are cost-competitive with older technologies. It allows for healthy growth without damaging the environment or burdening our economy with useless waste.
biomimicryinstitute.org
therenewablecorp.com
A label that provides a products carbon footprint. This includes all the CO2 emissions that were created in the production and transportations processes. Although this is relatively new Carbonfund.org provides a Carbon Free Certified Product Label for all carbon neutral products. carbonfund.org
De-inking is the industrial process of removing printing ink from paper fibers of recycled paper to make deinked pulp. The fibers can then be bleached and reused for next generation paper.
so... why does it matter?
significance of the process
“It takes 400 to 1,000 years for a plastic bottle just to begin the process of decomposition.�
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There are efforts being made across the United States to address this issue. Recycling and reusing on a daily basis are the best ways to make an individual effort. Whatever we use that can be remade into another product eliminates waste, which is key.
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? recycling couldn’t be stressed more. it is so important to do
anything you can to prevent your waste from hitting the landfill.
We have approached such a increased waste accumulation rate that the planet is running out of options. Recycling allows waste to be reused, therefor it is no longer considered waste and continues to serve a purpose.
you thought you heard it all...
Recycling helps extend the life and usefulness of something that has already served its initial purpose by producing something that is usable. Recycling has a lot of benefits and importance not only to us humans but especially to our planet.
recycled paper 1 ton of
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recycled cardboard 1 ton of recycledplastic 1 ton of
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TRASHED
The average American discards 4.34 lbs of garbage every day. = 450,000 lbs of trash
There comes a point that if our generation doesn’t start to make eco-friendly lifestyle changes, we could contribute to long term, possibly permanent problems for our future generations. And yes, its going to be our childrens problems. Now more than ever you as an individual need to start thinking on an eco-friendly level. (*EPA Facts and Figures) environmentalroulette.blogspot.com
that means if there are 313,466,310 of us that comes to about 1,246,367,668 lbs of trash EACH DAY!
okay, get it?
THAT IS OVER
one billion POUNDS OF WASTE
5 gallons of oil
42 kWh hours of electricity
7.5 pounds of air pollutants
2 cubic yards of landfill space
= 1 tree = 25 kwh = 50 barrels
= 1 lb of air pollution
685 gallons of oil
5,774 kWh hours of electricity
30 cubic yards of landfill space
“Bottling and shipping water is the least energy efficient method ever used to supply water�
= 1 cubic yard
46 gallons of oil
390 kWh hours of electricity
9 cubic yards of landfill space
380 gallons of oil
7,000 gallons of water
17 trees
4.6 cubic yards of landfill space
how to wipe your arse with that paper you flunked.
The recycled paper is combined with warm water and an agitator to break down paper into a pulp. It functions similar to a washing machine.
All the bits of metal and plastic are screened out.
Americans throw away 4.5 million tons of office paper each year.
To remove the ink from the paper the pulp is infused with air. The ink sticks to the air bubbles and floats to the top. The system skims off the foam leaving the pulp ink free.
It also creates 74% less air pollution and 35% less water pollution.
The pulp is run through a set of rollers to press out the excess water to allow the next process of bleaching the pulp to be absorbed correctly.
The pulp is spread out on a series of rollers to heat dry. It is then spun onto a spool that holds up to 47 miles of paper.
Every Sunday, 500,000 trees are used to produce the 88% of newspapers that are never recycled.
Most of our recycled paper goes to making bath tissue of other forms of low grade paper products.
students.arch.utah.edu / How its made discovery channel.
“24 million gallons of oil are needed to produce a billion plastic bottles.�
Recycling paper takes 60% less energy than making paper form raw materials.
ECOFRIENDLY WEBSITES some ways to get involved
There are several companies and organizations that dedicate themselves to eco-friendly practices. Here are organizations that are making and online presence to support methods of sustainability.
pollinator.org
freecycle.org
The Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. Signature initiatives include the NAPPC (North American Pollinator Protection Campaign), National Pollinator Week, and the Ecoregional Planting Guides.
Their mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.
iphone App: Find Fruit With the Bee Smart™ Pollinator Gardener’s you can browse through a database of nearly 1,000 native plants. Filter your plants by what pollinators you want to attract, light and soil requirements, bloom color, and plant type. This is an excellent plant reference to attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, beetles, bats, and other pollinators to the garden, farm, school and every landscape.
Myfootprint.org is a quiz that estimates the size of your ecological footprint. The Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates the area of land and ocean required to support your consumption of food, goods, services, housing, and energy and assimilate your wastes. Your footprint is broken down into four consumption categories: carbon (home energy use and transportation), food, housing, and goods and services. Your footprint is also broken down into four ecosystem types or biomes: cropland, pastureland, forestland, and marine fisheries.
Neighborhood Fruit helps people find and share fruit locally, both backyard bounty and abundance on public lands - 10,000 trees nationwide and counting! Neighborhood Fruit was created to make use of the abundant fruit growing in our urban environments. Currently, the bulk of fruit grown in backyards and in our cities goes to waste, while the fruit we consume is grown in water-intensive orchards far from our homes. We envision a different future, where the bulk of backyard fruit is utilized and shared between neighbors and our diets replete with home-made goodies. Join us in creating a future where the food we eat is truly fresh, seasonal and local!
iphone App: Find Fruit Find Fruit unlocks cities, enabling you to explore in new ways. Instead of being trapped in the concrete jungle, this app is your key to the edible urban forest! Find Fruit helps you find fresh fruit growing down the street and learn more about fruit trees.
“90% of the cost of bottled water is due to the bottle itself.”
myfootprint.org
neighborhoodfruit.org
what can i do?
Don’t put off becoming sustainable until tomorrow. Make a change towards a healthier lifestyle. By making sustainable choices, all the rest flows from that. It doesn’t take more money, but it will take continuous effort and mindfulness. The best way to truly achieve lasting change in your lifestyle is to take small steps and change specific areas that really mean a lot to you. Then once you are adapted to that change, your first changes will allow you to naturally adapt to others.
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“38 million plastic bottles go to the dump per year in America from bottled water.�
sustainable consumerism
IT STARTS WITH YOU “It’s about not waiting for somebody else to do something, it’s about getting on with it ourselves.” -Transition 1.0
the number one thing required is personal commitment.
Changing your lifestyle to be more sustainable offers opportunities to save money, build a stronger local community, increase the quality of your home and possessions, be more insulated against the collapse of larger systems, continue learning, simplify, be organic, and contribute to a healthier style of living on the Earth.
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The first stage is the collecting and sorting. In this stage, waste materials are collected and then processed and sorted according to its type and use.
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Finally, after new products are manufactured, the next stage follows which is the selling of the recycled products to consumers. When the product that the consumers bought already served its purpose, the recycling process will then again continue as these products are collected.
“16.5 billion gallons of water are wasted to provide Americans with “convenient” access to water.”
After these materials are sorted, they are ready for the second stage, which is the manufacturing. The manufacturing stage is the phase where the collected and sorted materials are processed into new reusable products.
reselling
trends with benefits. Going green seems stylish but it grows much deeper.
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eliminate waste in landfills!
By recycling 1 plastic bottle not only saves anywhere from 100 to 1000 years in the landfill BUT AlSO SAVES
the environment from the emissions in producing new bottles as well as the oil used to produce that bottle.
LANDFILLS ARE MOSTLY COMPOSED OF NON-BIODEGRADABLE WASTE,
which takes long time to decompose. By recycling, we can lessen the waste materials that are placed into landfills and we are able to make the most out of these materials. If we don’t recycle, more and more garbage will go to landfills until they all get filled up. If that happens, where will the rubbish be placed? How would you like a landfill in your backyard? benefits-of-recycling.com
environment-green.com
how to help:
Stop buying plastic water bottles!
1 out of 6 plastic water bottles makes it to the recycling bin.
Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. = 500,000 plastic bottles
The rest are sent to landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.
In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. = 500,000 barrels of crude oil
That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months. = 500,000 cars running per month
Catherine Clarke Fox nationalgeographic.com
the planet is getting baked. The atmosphere is trapping the heat and chemicals released from our industry creating an unhealthy environment and global warming.
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reduce pollution & global warming!
Polluted drinking waters are a problem for about half of the world’s population. EACH YEAR
there are about 250 million cases of water-based diseases, resulting in roughly 5 to 10 million deaths.
GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ARE TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE.
By saving energy in industrial production through recycling, the greenhouse gas emissions from factories and industrial plants are lessened and the use of fuels that emit harmful gasses during production is also minimized. Recycling non-biodegradable waste (rather then burning it) will contribute a lot to help reduce air pollution and greenhouse gasses that deplete the ozone layer. benefits-of-recycling.com dosomething.org
how to help:
H4 C =Hydrocarbons VOC =Volatile Organic Compounds NO 2 =Nitrogen Oxides CO =Carbon Monoxide CH 3 =Toluene
Stop driving your car so much! CO
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Fossil fuel combustion, particularly as it occurs in motor vehicles, has been identified as the LARGEST contributor to air pollution in the WORLD.
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People will need to use their cars responsibly and keep them in tip top condition so we can continue to improve matters and ensure we have nice clean air.
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Including dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, hydrocarbons and particulates.
Evaporative emissions:
vapours of fuel which are released into the atmosphere, without being burnt.
epa.vic.gov
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nature looks on the bright side.
The world’s forests fulfill many roles such as providing renewable raw materials and energy, maintaining biodiversity, and protecting land and water resources. However, they can be damaged by fire, agricultural and urban expansion, and other disturbances.
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save the environment!
Every ton of recycled paper saves approximately 4 barrels of oil, 4,200 kilowatt hours of energy
AND ENOUGH energy to heat and air-condition the average North American home for almost 6 months.
RECYCLING DIFFERENT PRODUCTS WILL HELP THE ENVIRONMENT. For example, we know that paper comes from trees and many trees are being cut down just to produce paper. By recycling it, we can help lessen the number of trees that are cut down. Products made from raw materials that came from our natural resources should be recycled so that we can help preserve the environment. benefits-of-recycling.com
how to help:
That’s an entire forest. Just for you.
Reuse and recycle your paper products!
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alarecycling.com
An average American uses 465 trees to create a lifetime of paper.
“The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes.�
“2 billion half-liter bottles of water were shipped to U.S. ports, creating thousands of tons of global warming pollution.�
“The federal standards for tap water are higher than those for bottled water.”
Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That’s about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.
WHY BUY GREEN? the number one thing required is personal commitment.
Each purchasing decision we make has an impact on our environment and in our world. Buy making sustainably minded choices, we can choose goods and services that have a positive impact and help push our world closer to a sustainable future. We know that global resource extraction exceeds regeneration and that we are overwhelming the earth’s capacity to absorb our pollution and waste. Making sustainable purchasing decisions is a simple way to shift a global challenge to an opportunity.
support your local economy.
Sustainable purchasing means selecting goods and services based on more than just cost and quality. It takes into consideration the environmental, social, and financial impacts of goods or services throughout the life cycle. Sustainable purchases contribute to resource conservation, promote renewable energy and material resources, cut down on waste, reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and foster a fair, equitable, and profitable economy.
THERE ARE MANY GOOD REASONS TO BUY LOCALLY GROWN FOODS
in the u.s. a typical carrot travels
1,838
miles before it reaches the
dinner table. the amount of fossil fuels used in the production and transportation of that carrot from china wastes more resources than you could imagine. here are a few reasons buying local food is much more sustainable, efficient, and higher in quality and taste.
YOU’LL GET EXCEPTIONAL TASTE AND FRESHNESS. Local food is fresher and tastes better than food shipped long distances from other states or countries. Local farmers can offer produce varieties bred for taste and freshness rather than for shipping and long shelf life. YOU’LL STRENGTHEN YOUR LOCAL ECONOMY. Buying local food keeps your dollars circulating in your community. Getting to know the farmers who grow your food builds relationships based on understanding and trust, the foundation of strong communities.
YOU’LL SAFEGUARD YOUR FAMILY’S HEALTH. Knowing where your food comes from and how it is grown or raised enables you to choose safe food from farmers who avoid or reduce their use of chemicals, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, or genetically modified seed in their operations. Buy food from local farmers you trust. YOU’LL PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT. Local food doesn’t have to travel far. This reduces carbon dioxide emissions and packing materials. Buying local food also helps to make farming more profitable and selling farmland for development less attractive. sustainability.utoronto.ca
“40% of bottled water starts as tap water.”
YOU’LL SUPPORT ENDANGERED FAMILY FARMS. There’s never been a more critical time to support your farming neighbors. With each local food purchase, you ensure that more of your money spent on food goes to the farmer.
GREEN ELECTRONICS for sustainable college students
CFL Bulbs $10
4 pk
Target The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, run by the Green Electronics Council, helps consumers find green-friendly electronic equipment. They have been able to get companies involved to create greener methods of production with out raising the cost. The EPA has generated more than 60 types of energy efficient household appliances and approves them with the Energy Star Certificate.
$999
Target
$60
Apple Inc.
All Apple products are made from recycled materials and can be recycled when you’re done with them. Plus downloadable apps that stress a greener lifestyle.
Fenix LD20LED
Macbook Air
ipod touch $188
Use Energy Star-rated light bulbs, GE’s Instant On Compact Fluorescent uses 75% to 78% less energy than a standard bulb.
Best Buy
Long battery life: Can last up to 30 days in standby mode. All Apple products are Energy Star Certified.
Its small, lightweight, ultra powerful, and has multiple brightness modes.
Dynex Blu-Ray Player
hp deskjet 3050 $80
$110
Best Buy
Best Buy
Made from 35% recycled plastic, When it is in sleep mode, it uses the same amount of energy as a clock radio, according to HP.
Samsung and Toshiba DVD and Blu-Ray players use up to 60% less energy than conventional models, according to the EPA.
Nintendo Wii $150 Best Buy
iwavecube $129
The Wii uses 1/6 of the power that it takes and Xbox 360 or Playstation to run for the same period of time.
$100 Amazon
Best Buy
Contains LED backlighting that makes the performance 40% more efficient than tv’s that don’t.
A 12-pound, 12-inch-tall portable microwave that can heat up the college student staples and uses less power than larger models. abcnews.go.com / www.greenbiz.com / www.greenconduct.com
“Bottle water costs about 1000 times more than tap water.”
15-inch Insignia
Resources Photo Credits:
Website Credits: relache.hubpages.com
foodroutes.org
green.myninjaplease.com
students.arch.utah.edu
environment-green.com
sustainablechemeng.blogspot.com
mentalfloss.com
nationalgeographic.com
bitemewhitworth.wordpress.com
iqsdirectory.com
environmentalroulette.blogspot.com
philippa-pippasplace.blogspot.com
naturalstepusa.org
epa.vic.gov
arch.wsu.edu
abcnews.go.com
ecowho.com
greenbiz.com
waterfootprint.org
greenconduct.com
nwf.org
sustainability.utoronto.ca
carbonfund.org
www1.american.edu
fda.gov
environmentalroulette.blogspot.com
biomimicryinstitute.org
students.arch.utah.edu
footprintnetwork.org
alarecycling.com
thedailygreen.com
greenupgrader.com
therenewablecorp.com
allgreenthings.com
Video credits: Transition 1.0 How It’s Made/ Discovery channel
Special Thanks To my professors, peers, family and friends who have encouraged and supported me throughout this project. Thank you Lee Moody at Mohawk for making this project possible with the donation of 100% recycled Mohawk Loop Paper.
emily june fasano Thesis 2012 BFA Graphic Design SUNY New Paltz