Green Neighborhood

There's a clear focus in today's media on greenhouse gas emissions, and the concepts of green, sustainable, and renewable energy. Renewable energy is part of the solution, but conservation can provide much more cost effective, immediate, and dramatic results.

Take a look at the examples below, which do not even include the savings in electricity and reduced run time from a typical system upgrade:

Saving 400 gallons of fuel oil saves about 4.4 tons of CO2. A typical home will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by over 4 tons per year - more than an acre or forest, and 3/4 the emissions from a car for an entire year! This will save over 130 tons through 30 years of operation.

Saving 550 therms of natural gas save 3.2 tons of CO2 - this savings will reduce 3.2 tons of CO2 annually, and is like removing 1/2 the emissions from a car for an entire year. This will save almost 100 tons through 30 years of operation.

Savings from 10 System 2000 installations could be as good for the environment as taking 7 cars off the streets, or planting almost 11 acres of trees to absorb the carbon dioxide caused by the fuel consumption for one year.

True. The average home releases more than 24,000 pounds of carbon dioxide (co2) annually, almost twice as much as a typical car (11,500 pounds of CO2 emissions), estimate the Enviromental Protection Agency. This is due to emissions produced by power plants to generate the electricity used to run modern homes - plus home emissions from such things as oil-and gas-fired heat and hot water systems.

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