Thought on the Big Picture

Posted by Bryan Lauer, LEED AP in GoGreen on 23-10-2009

Think about how your great great grandkids need water and other essentials to live. ..

The average person uses 100 Gallons of water every day!

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that 36 states anticipate some degree of water shortage by 2013!

a faucet with a leakage rate of 1 drip/second wastes around 3,000 gallons of water/year.

DO YOUR PART -

THINK GREEN.  ACT GREEN.  BE GREEN.  GO GREEN.

Now think about how much water and other essentials you waste everyday…

find captivating green facts here – http://www.GoGreenCommercially.com/go-green-facts/

GreenSource article review: Combating Climate Change

Posted by Bryan Lauer, LEED AP in GoGreen on 23-08-2009

The article being reviewed was written by Joann Gonchar, AIA

If you have yet to hear about “cap and trade”, prepare yourself, as our Government has approved a bill known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES).  This bill will establish a type of “cap and trade” method which sets limits on greenhouse-gas emissions (carbon dioxide and 5 additional heat-trapping gases).  This bill was created for the purpose of reducing emissions 3% from 2005 levels by 2012.  ”The required reductions would surge up to 17 percent by 2020, and to 83 percent by mid-century.”

Refining sources, utilities, and other industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions is who the bill would apply to.  The bill would not be directed toward individual commercial buildings.

What does all this mean?  It means the government is trying to save the world by reducing the deadly affects carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases cause.  To learn more about these deadly gases click here: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

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