WWF's Green Home Card

World Wildlife Fund's Green Home Card gives you useful and easy-to-follow tips on how to keep your home energy efficient and toxic-free.

Clean Energy
Supporting the use of clean energy from renewable resources, such as wind and solar and applying energy efficiency in your daily life, are necessary steps to help stop global warming. The burning of dirty fossil fuels-oil, coal, and gas-blankets the Earth with carbon dioxide (CO2), trapping in heat and causing global warming. A rise in global temperatures leads to less sea ice and a longer ice-free season each year, which can affect polar bears that rely on sea ice to access their food supply. Be a part of the solution. Help save polar bears and all life on Earth by taking action today and implementing the following 10 steps to cut your annual emissions of CO2.

1. Where possible, choose an electric utility company that uses clean renewable energy resources instead of dirty fossil fuels.
2. Make your next car one that gets at least 32 miles per gallon.
3. Replace worn-out home appliances with energy efficient models.
4. Make small home improvements: use energy-efficient fluorescent lights, weatherproof your house, plant native shade trees, clean vents and radiators, install low-flow showerheads.
5. Whenever possible, walk, bike, carpool, or use mass transit.
6. Adjust your thermostat by turning it down 3 degrees in winter.
7. Recycle aluminum cans, glass bottles, plastic, cardboard, paper, and newspaper.
8. Keep your car in shape with regular tune-ups, oil changes, and proper tire inflation.
9. Buy products that are made locally-cargo ships, airplanes, and trucks burn lots of fossil fuels to transport goods.
10. Wash laundry in cold or warm water instead of hot.

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