Earth Day #39

On April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day was held. People all over the country made promises to help the environment. Everyone got involved and since then, Earth Day has spread all over the planet. People all over the world know that there are problems we need to work on and this is our special day to look at the planet and see what needs changing.
One person had an idea and kept working until everyone began working together to solve it. See what happens when people care about our world?

Think about what you can do for Earth Day this year.
We think Earth Day should be Everyday! We are always thinking of new ways to get people involved in helping the Earth.

Check out some great ideas here!

Daylight Saving Time

One of the biggest reasons we change our clocks to Daylight Saving Time (DST) is that it reportedly saves electricity.
The demand for electricity for lighting our homes is directly connected to when we go to bed and when we get up. Bedtime for most of us is late evening throughout the year. When we go to bed, we turn off the lights and TV.

Daylight Saving Time "makes" the sun "set" one hour later and therefore reduces the period between sunset and bedtime by one hour. This means that less electricity would be used for lighting and appliances late in the day.

Daylight saving time also means change the battery in your smoke detector. While you've got the ladder out to check your smoke detectors, why not change a bulb?Switching to energy efficient bulbs in your ceiling fixtures could save you $30 a year per bulb on your electricity bill!

Check our site for a complete line of energy related posters and other items.

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Earth Day 2009

It's not too early to start thinking about Earth Day on April 22nd.
Get started with planning your Earth Day events at our website:
http://www.awarenessideas.com/

We have Earth Day themed merchandise that is ready to go with our
clever designs and messages-- or we can create your own custom Earth-friendly
message on any product you like!


Fun Earth Day themed posters, games, decals, and more!

Are you looking to make extra money and helping the environment at the same time

AwarenessIDEAS.com has a perfect money making program for people wanting to make easy extra money. All it takes is getting to know our web site and making referrals to it.

Become an energy saving, money making affiliate. You can earn extra income while being an environmental champion at the same time.

We have turned our web site into what can become your catalogue. It has everything you need to help your local organizations stop energy waste, recycle more effectively and stopping water waste and pollution. We've been doing it for years and now you can join us.

Explore our web site thoroughly, get to know it, get to know us, then refer your community to it. Someone will, it may as well be you. www.awarenessIDEAS.com

Call us, get to know us, we make it easy. Our web site is a perfect tool and opportunity for you.

Our pigs don't like to waste water animated cartoon is a BIG hit.

Everyone knows wasting water isn't smart, not everyone is thinking about wasting water all the time. This will help.
Send this link to your employees, friends and community. They will like the reminder and it can only help.
http://www.awarenessideas.com/awareness-animation-a/410.htm

Look for a new environmental animated cartoon every couple weeks. Even you can use a good reminder, now and then.

K-12 schools can Fund Raise and teach energy conservation to students at the same time

Environmental Issues Create Great School Fundraising Opportunities for k-12 schools. We at awarenessIDEAS.com have worked with schools for a long time providing energy conservation posters, light switch decals and many other "stop energy waste" products. We are now presenting a line of products that K-12 schools can use for Fund Raising. It's a triple win. Schools make money, students feel like they're involved and energy resources get saved.

We at AwarenessIDEAS.com make it easy for you.

visit: Environmental Issues Create Great School Fundraising Opportunities

Then give us a call. We're to to help you make product choices and to discuss with you how easy it is to be involved.

Our Green Display Promise

At Flexi Display, we take our dedication to the environment seriously. It's why we run our environmental employee awareness website, AwarenessIDEAS.com. It's why we strive to use as many recycled and recyclable materials in our products as possible. Our Flexi Display, manufacturered in Farmington Hills, Michigan keeps our Green Promise.

Our display is manufactured with over 70% post-consumer recycled product.

This material breakdown includes:

• Our outer velcro fabric is made of polypropolene. It is easily recyclable. Has only one element; carbon, does not discharge unsafely in the environment, non toxic.
• Limited usage of natural untreated wood.
  
• The interior substrate of our panels is made of recycled materials.
  

Though our display is build to last many years, when the time comes to retire your display, it is 100% recyclable. Recycling of our display creates no toxins, no run-off, no damaging effects to the environment. Every piece can be easily sorted and recycled into post-consumer materials for items we use every day.

You can be assured that we're always looking for ways to produce a more eco-friendly display, and we hope to have this number closer to 100% in the next year.

http://www.flexidisplay.com/

Employees Can Make a Difference!

Most employees would help their company conserve energy if they knew how. Too often people equate saving energy with just turning down the thermostat. Since most employees do not have the access or authority to change the stat, they don't really know what they can do to help.

Give them the tool they need to help make a difference.

This booklet is jammed full of useful information that can get everyone in your organization to make small changes that add up to a lot more than small change!



http://www.awarenessideas.com/ETB100-Create-a-Greener-Workplace-BOOKLET-p/ai-etb100.htm

Energy Uses

Share of Energy Consumed by

Major Sectors of the Economy

The United States is a highly developed and industrialized society. We use a lot of energy - in our homes, in businesses, in industry, and for traveling between all these different places.

The industrial sector uses about one-third of the total energy. The residential and commercial sectors combined use even more than this - 40 percent of all energy. These two sectors include all types of buildings, such as houses, offices, stores, restaurants, and places of worship. Energy used for transportation accounts for more than a quarter of all energy.

To view more info on evergy conservation, please visit:
http://www.awarenessideas.com/

Christmas Trees Use Energy, Too!

Holiday celebrations--for Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, and other holidays as well--often involve decorating with lights. Lights are easy to set up and beautiful to look at, either inside or outside the home. Yet, how many of us consider the extra energy use and cost that these lights will require? The trick to holding holiday electricity costs down is making energy efficient lighting choices. Depending on the type and number of lights that you use, and how long you keep them on, the cost of powering your holiday lights can range from a few cents to over fifty dollars per season. Here are a few energy saving tips that may help your parents cut down on their electricity bills this season:

The type of lights you choose is very important! As a general rule, bigger bulbs use more electricity. For every hour they are turned on, the big (C-7) bulbs use between 4 and 10 watt-hours per bulb. This is at least 10 times the electricity used in an hour by 0.4 watt mini-light bulbs. The new Light Emitting Diode (LED) holiday lights are the biggest energy savers, drawing only a tenth as much electricity as mini-lights, at 0.04 watts per bulb! Of course, LED lights are much more expensive than mini-lights and the savings on your energy bill may not make up for the added cost. Besides saving energy, LED lights have some other advantages that may make their added cost seem worth it. When one bulb on a string of LED lights goes bad, the rest of the light string will still work. So there is no searching for that one bad light keeping the rest of the string from operating! Plus, LED bulbs should last at least 5 years, and they never get hot. If you like big light displays, you can connect up to 25 strings of LED lights together without overloading a typical household circuit.

More lights require more energy. It only makes sense that your electricity use will go up as you add more strings of lights. Keep in mind that not all light strings are the same. Big (C-7) bulbs come in strings of 25 while mini-lights may have 35 to 200 bulbs per string, and LED lights may have 35 to 100 lights per string. The popular, icicle style light strings use mini-lights but because of their shape, usually require many more strings to cover the same distance as a regular string of mini-lights. The number of light strings used for decorating is a matter of taste. You can compare the amount of electricity that will be used by a string of each type of lights in an hour, by multiplying the number of watts per bulb by the number of bulbs per string:

A string of C-7 bulbs: 4 watts per bulb x 25 bulbs per string = 100 watts per hour
A string of mini-lights: 0.4 watts per bulb x 100 bulbs per string = 40 watts per hour
A string of LED lights: 0.04 watts per bulb x 100 bulbs per string = 4 watts per hour

The longer your lights are on, the more energy they use. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that lights that are left on all night (maybe 12 hours) will use 3 times as much electricity as lights that are on for only 4 hours at night. Using a timer on your tree and outdoor display is a great way to keep from forgetting to turn your lights off!


For more info on energy conservation, please visit:
www.awarenessideas.com