Before it was cool to be green, we at Wild Frontier have been encouraging youth workers to at least put a Creation Care stat on their websites or newsletters to help connect faith to this important issue with teens.

Shut off excess electric stuff.  75% of all the electricity consumed in the home is standby power used to keep electronics running when those TVs, DVRs, computers, monitors and stereos are “off.” The average desktop computer, not including the monitor, consumes from 60 to 250 watts a day. Compared with a machine left on 24/7, a computer that is in use four hours a day and turned off the rest of the time would save you about $70 a year. (U.S. Department of Energy, Time.com, 2007)

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Anglicans urge ‘carbon fast’ for Lent

Before it was cool to be green, we at Wild Frontier have been encouraging youth workers to at least put a Creation Care stat on their websites or newsletters to help connect faith to this important issue with teens.

Because college students are more likely to wish to be green, University of Virginia (UVA) created four green demo dorm rooms, which were on display during summer orientation sessions. Those rooms featured a variety of environmentally conscious products, from cleaning and school supplies to electronics like mini fridges, microwaves and computers–all of which are available for purchase in the campus bookstore.  (Trendcentral, August 25, 2009)

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9 Things You Can Give Up for Lent That Will Help the Environment

Before it was cool to be green, we at Wild Frontier have been encouraging youth workers to at least put a Creation Care stat on their websites or newsletters to help connect faith to this important issue with teens.

From The Cassandra Report, a high-dollar marketing report for companies who market to tweens, teens, and young adults, 49% of trendsetters and 32% of the mainstream consider themselves very environmentally conscious. (IG’s Trendcentral, June 3, 2008)

What happens to those 3-D glasses after ‘Avatar’?

That’s a whole lot of plastic. With about 75% of people who see Avatar seeing it in 3-D, it works out to about 42.1 million pairs of glasses worn, or 935,834 a day.  …what would otherwise be a mountain of plastic out of landfill.

Before it was cool to be green, we at Wild Frontier have been encouraging youth workers to at least put a Creation Care stat on their websites or newsletters to help connect faith to this important issue with teens.

Pay Your Bills Online.  Paying bills online does more than save trees. It also helps reduce fuel consumption by the trucks and planes that transport paper checks. If every U.S. home viewed and paid its bills online, the switch would cut solid waste by 1.6 billion tons a year and curb greenhouse-gas emissions by 2.1 million tons a year.  (Javelin Strategy & Research, Time.com, 2007)

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A Better World Cafe

Frito-Lay’s factory in Arizona is going green with a new design of reducing electricity and water consumption by 90 percent.  The plan is to capture potato peelings to fertilize farmland.  High- tech filters will recycle wastewater and use it to power the factory.  All of the recycled wastewater sludge will be burned, creating methane gas to power the factory’s boilers.  Another idea is to develop 50 acres of solar concentrators to power the factory.  (Time, December 3, 2007)