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Haywood County Relay for Life- June 13, 2008

May 13, 2008. Buses transporting soldiers from the National Guard's 1175th travel around the Brownsville square. The transportation company has been serving in the Iraq for the past year. It's the 1175th second tour of duty in the Middle East.

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Environmental tidbits

Primary sources: 50 Simple Things You Can do To Save the Earth, Earthworks Press, 1989; www.kilowattours.org

Compiled by Martha Lyle Ford for Brownsville Radio 5.4.07

The energy saved by recycling one aluminum can will operate a television for how long?

5 minutes
15 minutes
1 hour
3 hours

(Source: Kilowatt Ours)

How long does it take for any aluminum can to biodegrade (rot)?

5 years
10 years
100 years
500+ years

Which of these Tennessee cities is listed in the nation’s top 25 in terms of worst air pollution?

Memphis
Nashville
Knoxville
All of the above

(Source: American Lung Association; Kilowatt Ours)

If every household in America changed its 5 most used lights to compact fluorescent bulbs (instead of the regular incandescent bulbs) it would be the same as:

Taking one trillion pounds of poisonous gases and soot out of the air
Taking 8 million cars off the road
Closing 21 coal-fired power plants off line
All of the above

(Source: Kilowatt Ours)

Compact fluorescent light bulbs use how much less energy than regular incandescent bulbs?

20% less
40% less
60% less
80% less

The average home in the Southeastern US uses how many kilowatt hours of energy a month?

300
500
800
1100

(Kilowatt Ours; That translates into about 1100 pounds of coal per month per home. That’s the highest residential usage rate in the US)

How many gallons of water is the normal faucet flow per minute?

½ gallon
1 gallon
2.5 gallons
3 – 5 gallons

(p. 23)

How much water can you save by installing a low-flow faucet aerator?

10%
25%
50%
75%

(p. 23)

How much do low-flow aerators cost?

Less than $5
$10
$25
$100

(p. 23)

How long does it take a styrofoam cup to bio-degrade (rot)?

2 months
1 year
10 years
500+ years

(p. 44)

Water heaters account for what percentage of a home’s energy usage?

5%
10%
20%
40%

For every 10 degrees you turn down your water heater, you save ____% of the energy used.

How many trees are used to produce the junk mail received by Haywood Countians each year? (assuming there are 20,000 Haywood Countians)

5,000
10,000
20,000
30,000

(p. 20)

What percentage of junk mail is never even opened or read?

7%
12%
26%
44%

(p. 20)

The average American spends how much of his or her life just opening junk mail?

3 weeks
2 months
6 months
8 months

(p. 20)

When you’re washing your car, a trigger nozzle on your hose will save you how many gallons of water?

2 gallons
5 gallons
10 gallons
20+ gallons

(p. 25)

Each American uses about how many pounds of plastic per year?

60 pounds
110 pounds
190 pounds
250 pounds

(p. 66)

What percentage of plastic is packaging that is discarded?

10%
25%
40%
60%

(p. 66)

Who can do something to decrease energy usage?

Rich people
People in Washington, DC
Nobody
Everybody

To reduce the amount of junk mail you receive, write to: Mail Preference Service, Direct Marketing Association, 11 West 42^nd Street, P.O. Box 3861, New York, NY 10163. Ask them to stop your junk mail.

VICIOUS DOGS
City Ordinance 780 prohibits any Pit Bull Terrier or Staffordshire Bull Terrier or American Staffordshire terrier breed of dog, or any mixed breed of dog which contains as an element of its breeding the breed of American Pit Bull Terrier or Staffordshire Bull Terrier or American Staffordshire terrier, Rottweiler, German Shepherds, Husky types, Malamutes, Wolf dog hybrids, Doberman Pinscher, Chows, or any mixture of any of the above or any other exotic breed of animal that may cause injury to, or otherwise threaten the safety of human beings or other domestic animals.

A vicious dog is “unconfined” if the dog is not securely confined indoors or confined in a securely enclosed and locked pen or structure upon the premises of the owner of the dog. The pen or structure must have secure sides and a secure top attached to the side. If the pens or structure has no bottom secured to the side, the sides must be embedded into the ground no less than one. All such pens or structure must be adequately lighted and kept in a clean and sanitary condition.