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Keep Oklahoma Beautiful Page 2
CONSERVE ENERGY
Keep your car well tuned and filters clean. A poorly tuned vehicle can use as much as three to nine percent more gasoline than a well tuned one.
Keep your tires properly inflated to save gas.
Turn off the light when you leave a room.
Adjust your thermostat to a moderate temperature when you leave each day.
Replace incandescent light bulbs at home, work or school with compact fluorescent bulbs.
Have an energy audit done at home, work or school and follow suggestions to save energy.
Caulk and weather strip cracks around doors and windows at home.
Insulate your water heater.
Close the fireplace damper when not in use.
Carpool and share rides whenever possible.
CONSERVE WATER
Wash your car at home. The average automatic car wash can use ten times as much water and a big charge of electricity to do the same job you can do at home.
Avoid over-watering your lawn.
Water during morning and evening hours to reduce evaporation.
Use mulch in gardens and flower beds.
Install a water saving shower head.
Turn off water when brushing your teeth or shaving.
Run the washer and dishwasher only when full.
Use a broom instead of a hose to clean walkways and driveways.
RESPOND
Set a good example for your family and friends by practicing the three Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle).
Contact managers where you shop to request that the store carry recycled products.
Write your legislators when you have an opinion about legislation.
Consider organizing a recycling program for your community, school or business.
Bring and use your own coffee mug to meetings instead of using disposable cups.
Join the Adopt-a-Highway program or create your own adoption program such as Adopt-a-Park, Neighborhood, County Road, etc.
Plant a tree If every American family planted one tree, more than one billion pounds of i.green-house gasesln could be removed from the atmosphere every year.
Participate in Use Less Stuff Day, Earth Day and America Recycles Day.
For More I nformation Contact:
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality
P. O. Box 1677
Oklahoma City, OK 73101-1677
(405) 702-5100
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