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Ways to live green every day, by Continental

by Iva Skoch (RSS feed) on Apr 22nd 2008 at 9:00AM

Paging through the Continental in-flight magazine last night, I stumbled upon a few "green living" tips.

For example, did you know that:

If Americans used one less package of non-recycled paper napkins, it would save one million trees?
Ninety percent of the energy used by your washing machine goes to hear the water? Using the cold cycle is much better.
Producing and disposing of all the junk mail distributed in the US each year releases as much CO2 as 2,8 million cars?

Continental gives the following easy tips to live green every day:

When you are not traveling, get your morning coffee in a reusable cup. Americans throw away about 40 billion disposable coffee cups each year
Unplug all chargers (cell phone, iPod, etc) when they are not charging their intended device. This reduces carbon emissions by about 100 pounds per year, per charger.
Speed up your shower. Spending just two minutes less in the shower each day could prevent about 400 pounds of CO2 (in the form of energy used to heat and treat the water) from entering the atmosphere each year.
Cut your air travel by half. Just kidding. These are, after all, tips from Continental Airlines.