Green Tip Reminders for Easy Living - 04/23/2010
Reduce your carbon footprint! Leaving your car at home twice a week can cut greenhouse gas emissions by 1,600 pounds per year. Save up errands and shopping trips so you need to drive fewer times. If you commute to work, ask if you can work from home at least some days, and you'll reduce air pollution and traffic congestion - and save money.
During hot weather (or any other time really), don't top off your gas tank. Refuel your car or truck in the early morning or the evening when it's cooler. A small fuel spill may not seem like much, but every spill evaporates and adds to air pollution, and fuel pumps with vapor recovery systems can feed a spill back into their tanks – after you paid for it. So, in hot weather – don't top off!
Breathe easy! On unhealthy air pollution "action alert" days, wait to mow your lawn until it's cooler in the evening or early the next morning. You help reduce air pollution for everyone near you if you run gas-powered equipment, like lawn mowers, when it's cooler. You also protect your health by avoiding ground-level ozone during the warmest part of the day.
Tread lightly! Use public transportation, carpool, walk, or bike whenever possible to reduce air pollution and save on fuel costs. Leaving your car at home just two days a week will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 1,600 pounds per year. If you can work from home, you'll reduce air pollution and traffic congestion - and save money.
Exercising outdoors? Regular exercise makes us feel great and keeps us healthy. Before you head out for your workout or run, check the air quality forecast for your local area. You can find out when air pollutants such as ground-level ozone or airborne particles are at acceptable levels where you live.
Don't idle! Remind your school system to turn off bus engines when buses are parked. Exhaust from idling school buses can pollute air in and around the bus, and can enter school buildings through air intakes, doors, and open windows. Constant idling also wastes fuel and money, and school bus engines really need only a few minutes to warm up. This doesn’t just apply to school buses, but all cars and trucks!! Stuck in traffic? Turn it off.
Mary F. Gutierrez, Environmental Planner
West Florida Regional Planning Council
P.O. Box 11399 Pensacola, FL 32524-1399
4081 E. Olive Rd, Suite A, Pensacola, FL 32514
Phone: (850) 332-7976 x 226 or 800-226-8914
Fax: (850) 637-1923
www.wfrpc.org
“The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul” - Solzhenitsyn
"The purpose in life is a life of purpose" - Byrne
NOTICE: E-mail communications to or from West Florida Regional Planning Council employees are considered to be public records. Public records law requires these communications be made available to the public and media upon request. (Florida Statutes, Chapter 119)
During hot weather (or any other time really), don't top off your gas tank. Refuel your car or truck in the early morning or the evening when it's cooler. A small fuel spill may not seem like much, but every spill evaporates and adds to air pollution, and fuel pumps with vapor recovery systems can feed a spill back into their tanks – after you paid for it. So, in hot weather – don't top off!
Breathe easy! On unhealthy air pollution "action alert" days, wait to mow your lawn until it's cooler in the evening or early the next morning. You help reduce air pollution for everyone near you if you run gas-powered equipment, like lawn mowers, when it's cooler. You also protect your health by avoiding ground-level ozone during the warmest part of the day.
Tread lightly! Use public transportation, carpool, walk, or bike whenever possible to reduce air pollution and save on fuel costs. Leaving your car at home just two days a week will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 1,600 pounds per year. If you can work from home, you'll reduce air pollution and traffic congestion - and save money.
Exercising outdoors? Regular exercise makes us feel great and keeps us healthy. Before you head out for your workout or run, check the air quality forecast for your local area. You can find out when air pollutants such as ground-level ozone or airborne particles are at acceptable levels where you live.
Don't idle! Remind your school system to turn off bus engines when buses are parked. Exhaust from idling school buses can pollute air in and around the bus, and can enter school buildings through air intakes, doors, and open windows. Constant idling also wastes fuel and money, and school bus engines really need only a few minutes to warm up. This doesn’t just apply to school buses, but all cars and trucks!! Stuck in traffic? Turn it off.
Mary F. Gutierrez, Environmental Planner
West Florida Regional Planning Council
P.O. Box 11399 Pensacola, FL 32524-1399
4081 E. Olive Rd, Suite A, Pensacola, FL 32514
Phone: (850) 332-7976 x 226 or 800-226-8914
Fax: (850) 637-1923
www.wfrpc.org
“The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul” - Solzhenitsyn
"The purpose in life is a life of purpose" - Byrne
NOTICE: E-mail communications to or from West Florida Regional Planning Council employees are considered to be public records. Public records law requires these communications be made available to the public and media upon request. (Florida Statutes, Chapter 119)
