“Be Green to $ave Green”
Green Statistics
• 128 Million Residential Housing Units 2007
• 7.188 Million Built New from 2005-2009
• 4.9 Million Office Buildings in 2003
• 170,000 New Commercial Buildings Added Every Year
Green Statistics Energy
• Buildings Account for 39% of ALL Energy Use
• 72% of Electricity Use
• 8% of Energy goes to treating, pumping & Heating water
• 7% of all Electricity use goes to Refrigerators
• Each person generates 4.62 pounds of trash every day
• Construction accounts for 26 % of all waste
Green, what does it mean?
• Who gets it?
• Where is the Demand?
When you buy a car, do you look at the sticker on the window and see what kind of gas mileage and features the car has? Do you look under the Hood? Average person spends $21,000 on a new car. When you buy a new or used home, what sticker do you look at to tell what kind of efficiency that house has? Can you look under the hood? Can you take it for a test drive? No one knows, and yet it is the biggest investment we make from $150,000 to $400,000.
If I asked you how much you paid for gas per gallon this week, you could probably name the gas station with the best price. You could probably tell me how much you paid ten years ago for a gallon of gas. Do you know how much you pay your electric company per kilowatt hour used? When was the last time they raised the price? How many Kilowatts do you use in a month? Is there anything you can do about that? Or do you just shrug your shoulders and stroke the check?
When you go to work and your car is parked in the parking lot, how much energy does it use? That’s right, none. But while you are at work how much energy is your house using? No one probably knows because the average person doesn’t know how much energy their house used each month they only know how much they paid on their last bill. We have got to understand that we control how much money we spend on energy by being energy efficient. We have come up with 5 Simple Steps for you to be Green and $ave Green. Come join me at the Home and Garden Show Friday the 12th at noon or 4pm, Saturday the 13th at 1 pm, or Sunday the 14th at 1 pm for a seminar dedicated to saving your Green. I look forward to seeing you there.
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If you weren't able to make any of the seminars at the Home Show, Chairman Bill Wichlei, CGP plans to post each of his 5 points to Be Green and $ave Green right here on our blog over the next few weeks. We hope you'll come back and check them out!
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