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Your Household Carbon Footprint Report

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Your Household Carbon Footprint Report

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If you take all of the new actions you've selected: Dollar Savings CO Reduction

Turn down heating thermostat on winter nights by 5℉ $8 69 lbs.

Turn up A/C thermostat in summer by 10℉ $50 427 lbs.

Replace 2 incandescent light bulbs with ENERGY STAR lights $8 66 lbs.

Enable the power management features on your computer $13 108 lbs.

Replace your refrigerator with ENERGY STAR models $38 324 lbs.

Replace your window with ENERGY STAR models $150 7,441 lbs.

Reduce the number of miles you drive on Vehicle 1 $16 40 lbs.

Replace Vehicle 2 with one that gets MPG $NaN NaN lbs.

Replace Vehicle 3 with one that gets MPG $NaN NaN lbs.

Recycle: glass 102 lbs.

Your Estimated Totals: $283 8,577 lbs.

By taking all of the actions you are already doing: Dollar Savings CO Reduction

Wash your clothes in cold water $6 50 lbs.

Perform regular maintenance on your vehicles $33 181 lbs.

Recycling: newspapers, plastic, magazines 705 lbs.

Your Estimated Totals: $39 936 lbs.

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9,730

New Total After Your Planned Actions

1,153

U.S. Average

35,070

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Your Planned Actions Are Equal to:

Saving

437 gallons of gas

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Planting

99 trees

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Recycling

2,766 tons of waste

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Small Actions Add Up

If 100 of your friends took these actions, over 5 years their households would avoid

4,288,415 pounds of emissions, equivalent to the emissions from burning 218,796 gallons of gasoline.

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