Go Green by paying bills electronically instead of paper statements and other bills. A coalition of several financial service companies have found this method could assist in protecting the environment. The study revealed the average American household recieves 19 bills and a statement in the mail monthly and seven payments are made in paper form. If 2% more households would switch to electronic payments, 15 miillion pounds of paper would be saved, thereby saving more than 181,000 trees. Green house gases would be reduced by more than 390 milliion pounds and 143 milliion gallons of wastewater would not enter the environment.

Posted by:Bob Cunningham

Go green by paying bills and statements electronically instead of paper. A coalition of several financial service companies have found this method could assist in protecting the environment. The study revealed, that the average American household receives 19 bills and statements in the mail monthly and seven payments are made in paper form. If 2% more households would switch to electronic payments, more than 15 million pounds of paper would be saved, thereby saving more than 181,000 trees.Greenhouse gases would be reduced by more than 390 million pounds and 143 million gallons of wastewater would not enter the environment.

Posted by:Bob Cunningham

In the 1970’s American’s became aware of the fact we were becoming too dependent on foreign oil. Energy efficient homes were being built and as the price of oil dropped so did energy efficient home construction. The 21st century finds the cost of foreign oil is too prohibitive along with drilling for oil in the U.S. Other fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas have increased in price and are also to expensive to burn. Of the 100 million plus homes in the U.S. only approximately 1% are energy efficient. This calls for action by many Americans to retrofit there home’s without a large outlay of money. When this is done the use cost of energy is reduced by 50% , thereby reducing the monthly cost of living.

Posted By: Bob Cunningham