Tips to Live a Little Greener
Clean Air Council’s 11th Annual Greenfest Philly presented by Toyota Hybrids returns to Headhouse Square (2nd and South Streets) on Sunday, September 11, 2016 from 10:00am to 4:00pm. The tri-state region’s largest environmental festival is bigger than ever with live music, vegan and vegetarian cooking demos, group bike rides, free adult and kids’ yoga, an outdoor beer garden, organic food and drinks, hybrid vehicle test drives, handmade and green shopping, MOM’s Organic Market Kids’ Corner, a twenty-five foot rock wall, and even edible bugs.
The festival celebrates sustainability and educates festival-goers on fun and easy ways to be greener. Here are 5 easy steps to take that make a big impact on the planet.
Recycle. The energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will power your TV for 3 hours of binge-watching![1]
Participants race to sort trash, compost, and recycling for SCA‘s Trash Dash game at Greenfest.
Bring your own bag. Americans use and throw away 100 billion plastic bags every year, which requires 12 million barrels of oil per year to manufacture…enough to power all U.S. traffic for 35 hours! [2]
Clean Air Council staff member, Steve Ross, wears the “Bag Monster” costume made from over 250 plastic bags. The costume illustrates how many bags the average American uses and discards each year.
Buy organic. Organic farms produce 40% less greenhouse gasses and are 45% more efficient than conventional farms. [3]
MOM’s Organic Market gives out free organic produce and snacks at Greenfest.
Drive a Hybrid. Thanks to Toyota hybrid drivers all around the world, an estimated 58 million tons of CO2 emissions have been prevented from entering the atmosphere. [4]
Test drive an all new Toyota Hybrid at Greenfest.
Purchase renewable energy. Global warming emissions from electricity production could be reduced by approximately 81 percent by generating 80 percent of the country’s electricity from renewable sources by 2050. [5]
Greenfest Philly is 100% solar powered.
Mother Nature thanks you.
References:
[1] http://www.greeninbklyn.com/639/what-to-do-or-ten-green-facts/
[2] https://www.nrdc.org/media/2008/080109
[3] http://rodaleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Fact-Sheet.pdf
[4] http://www.toyota.com/usa/environment/
[5] http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/our-energy-choices/renewable-energy/public-benefits-of-renewable.html
