// JavaScript Document var Quotation = new Array(); Quotation[0] = "Swapping 16 incandescent bulbs for flourescent light bulbs (CFL) saves emissions equivalent to taking a car off the road for a year.
Source: EnergyStar.gov"; Quotation[1] = "Americans use about 385 million gallons of gasoline every day, which means more than a gallon of gasoline every day for every man, woman and child.
Source: Energy Information Administration"; Quotation[2] = "A leaky faucet can waste up to 20 gallons of water per day, and a leaky toilet can waste up to 200 gallons a day.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[3] = "If you replace just one out of four of your light bulbs with fourescents, you can save about 50% on your lighting bill.
Source: EPA"; Quotation[4] = "In the average home, 40% of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Across the US, this equals the annual output of 17 power plants.
Source: Energy Star"; Quotation[5] = "Refrigerators use 14% of an average US home's electricity. Replacing a 20-year old refrigerator with a new energy-efficient model reduces an average home's CO2 contribution by about 1 ton per year while saving about $65 annually on the electric bill.
Source: American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy"; Quotation[6] = "If every household in the US replaced just one package of virgin fiber napkins with 100% recycled ones, we could save 1 million trees.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[7] = "One third of tested bottled water brands were found to contain contaminants, such as arsenic and carcinogenic compounds, at levels exceeding state or industry standard.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[8] = "More than 80% of the most commonly-used pesticides today have been classified by National Academy of Sciences researchers as potentially carcinogenic, and are routinely found in mothers' milk.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[9] = "More than one billion people, or 1 out of every 6 people, lack access to a safe supply of drinking water. Diseases associated with the lack of clean water are leading cause of death in the world.
Source: Water.org"; Quotation[10] = "Almost 40% of America's waste is paper and could be recycled, meaning fewer trees cut down.
Source: EPA"; Quotation[11] = "A standard-sized home solar system decreases monthly home energy bills by 40%-60%.
Source: US Energy Information Administration"; Quotation[12] = "Thirty-six states are anticipating water shortages by 2016. Yet the average American uses more than 100 gallons of water each day.
Source: EPA"; Quotation[13] = "If every American replaced just one light bulb with an Energy Star compact flourescent light bulb (CFL), the energy saved could light more than 2.5 million homes for a year.
Source: Energystar.gov"; Quotation[14] = "Over its lifetime, a 40-mpg car will save $3,000 in fuel costs compared to a 20-mpg car.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[15] = "A family of four using low-flow showerheads instead of full-flow models can save about 20,000 gallons of water per year.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[16] = "Americans spend an average of 90% of their time indoors, where indoor air is often 2 to 5 times more polluted than outdoor air.
Source: EPA/USGBC"; Quotation[17] = "Daily building operation (lighting, electricity, heating, and cooling of homes, offices and schools) accounts for more than one-third of US CO2 emmissions.
Source: US EIA"; Quotation[18] = "Paper products are bleached to make them whiter and brighter. The chlorine used in many bleaching processes contributes to the formation of harmful chemicals that wind up in our air and water and are highly toxic to people and fish.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[19] = "About one-sixth of the wood delivered to a construction site is never used. Instead, it's hauled to the landfill as wood waste scraps.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[20] = "55% of our trash goes to landfills, 14% is burned, and 31% is recycled.
Source: Energy Information Administration"; Quotation[21] = "Almost 25% of the polluting matter in the air above Los Angeles comes from China's coal-fired power plants and factories, as well as fumes from China's cars and dust kicked up by droughts and deforestation around Asia.
Source: New York Times"; Quotation[22] = "The removable roof rack on a car can reduce fuel economy by as much as 5%.
Source: EPA"; Quotation[23] = "Though Americans make up just 4% of the world's population, we produce 25% of the carbon dioxide pollution from fossil-fuel burning -- more than China, India and Japan combined, and by far the largest share of any country.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[24] = "The polar ice cap is now melting at the alarming rate of 9% per decade. Arctic ice thickness has almost halved since the 1960s.
Source: NASA"; Quotation[25] = "Since 1980, the earth has experienced 19 of its 20 hottest years on record, with 2005 and 1998 tied for the hottest and 2002 and 2003 coming in second and third.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[26] = "Half of the forests that originally covered 48% of the Earth's land surface are gone. Only 1/5th of the Earth's original forests remain pristine and undisturbed.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[27] = "Only 10% of the energy used by an incandescent bulb produces light; the rest is given off as heat.
Source: Energy Information Administration"; Quotation[28] = "Power plants emit 40% of U.S. carbon dioxide pollution, the primary cause of global warming.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[29] = "Manufacturing just 17 new cars uses enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
Source: Energy Information Administration"; Quotation[30] = "Over the past 40 years, the total commercial and residential waste produced in the U.S. has nearly tripled.
Source: Energy Information Administration"; Quotation[31] = "The National Recycling Coalition reports that recycling supports 1.1 million jobs in the U.S.
Source: Energy Information Administration"; Quotation[32] = "Across the U.S., 12 million acres of lakes, estuaries and wetlands and 473,000 miles of streams, rivers and coasts are contaminated by mercury, which comes mainly from coal-fired power plants.
Source: NRDC"; Quotation[33] = "Automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, and buses in the U.S. drove over 2.8 trillion miles in 2002 -- comparable to driving to the sun and back 13,440 times.
Source: Energy Information Administration"; Quotation[34] = "The average American generates 4.5 pounds of trash every day, which is almost twice the amount of trash the average American produced daily in 1960.
Source: Energy Information Administration"; Quotation[35] = "The U.S. uses nearly $1 million worth of energy every minute.
Source: Energy Information Administration"; Quotation[36] = "Making a ton of paper from recycled stock saves up to 17 trees and uses 50% less water than making paper from virgin fiber.
Source: Energy Information Administration"; Quotation[37] = "Recycling saves energy: Creating a new aluminum can from scratch takes 95% more energy than making a can from recycled aluminum.
Source: Earth911"; var Q = Quotation.length; var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); function showQuotation(){document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);} showQuotation();