Green Committee, St. Thomas Aquinas Parish

Ideas that everyone can apply to save the environment

How much greenhouse emissions does your family produce? To find out the answer to this question, along with a list of specific actions you can take to reduce these emissions, just go to the EPA Household Emissions Calculator.

An article in the Scientific American magazine shows Twelve Ways to Lessen Your Footprint.

Here is one of the tips from Scientific American:

"Everyone’s rushing to replace old incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), which last longer and use far less electricity. The bulbs contain tiny amounts of mercury, however, so tossing them in the garbage when they do finally burn out poses an environmental hazard. Most trash collectors won’t take them. To help, Home Depot is now accepting used CFLs (PDF) at all its 1,970 building supply stores. A few other retailers such as True Value and IKEA are also taking the dead lamps."

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	Green Tips Ideas that everyone can apply to save the environment How much greenhouse emissions does your family produce? To find out the answer to this question, along with a list of specific actions you can take to reduce these emissions, just go to the EPA Household Emissions Calculator. An article in the Scientific American magazine shows Twelve Ways to Lessen Your Footprint. Here is one of the tips from Scientific American: "Everyone’s rushing to replace old incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), which last longer and use far less electricity. The bulbs contain tiny amounts of mercury, however, so tossing them in the garbage when they do finally burn out poses an environmental hazard. Most trash collectors won’t take them. To help, Home Depot is now accepting used CFLs (PDF) at all its 1,970 building supply stores. A few other retailers such as True Value and IKEA are also taking the dead lamps."

Green Tips

Ideas that everyone can apply to save the environment