Here are some facts about energy useage you can use to help lessen your impact on the environment!

If an office building of 7,000 workers recycled all of its office paper waster for a year, it would be the equivalent of taking almost 400 cars off the road.

Through accounting for only 5 percent of the world's population, Americans consume 26% of the world's energy. Residential appliances, including heating and cooling equipment and water heaters, consumes 90% fo all energy used in the U.S. residential sector.

Wind farms in the U.S. have helped avoid nearly 62 million pounds of pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) - which are tied to global climate change, from entering the atmosphere.

Keep your thermostat as high as is comfortable in the summer and as cool as is comfortable in the winter. For each 1 degree (F) you turn down the thermostat in the winter, you'll save up to 5% on your heating costs.

The 500 million automobiles on Earth burn an average of two gallons of fuel a day. Each gallon of fuel releases 20 pounds of CO2 into the air.

83% of the world's air pollution comes from the production and use of electricity.

The total number of idle TV's and VCR's in the US produce the same amount of pollution as 2 million cars.

Buildings account for 71% of electricity used in the United States. The annual CO2 emissions associated with buildings' electricity demand, 658 million metric tons, is equal to the combined emissions in Japan, France, and the United Kingdom.

A typical residential solar water heater will offset greenhouse gas emissions by about 1,500 pounds of CO2 per year. That's equal to the amount of CO2 released by an average vehicle every 1,685 miles.

Average daily U.S. CO2 emissions per person: 122 pounds. Average worldwide: 24 pounds. Amount that could be emitted without raising CO2 levels in the atmosphere: 9 pounds.

One mature tree on the south side of your house provides as much summer cooling as five midsized air-conditioners.

Silicon from just one ton of sand, used in photovoltaic cells, could produce as much electricity as burning 500,000 tons of coal.

Developing wind farms in just 10% of 10 of the windiest states could provide more than enough energy to desplace emissions from coal-fired power plants.