Sustainability- Ability to corroborate or substantiate a statement. Ability to maintain or support an activity or process over the long term.
A hot water faucet that leaks one drop per second can add up to 165 gallons a month. That's more than one person uses in two weeks
An energy-smart clothes washer can save more water in one year than one person drinks in an entire lifetime
Although accounting for only 5 percent of the world's population, Americans consume 26 percent of the world's energy
One ton of 100 percent recycled paper saves the equivalent of 4,100 kWh of energy, 7,000 gallons of water, 60 pounds of air emissions and three cubic yards of landfill space.
Every year, more than $13 billion worth of energy leaks from houses through small holes and cracks. That's more than $150 per family.