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If every household in the U.S. replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL), it would prevent enough pollution to equal the removal of one million cars from the road.
If just one in ten households used current technology to upgrade their inefficient heating systems, we could keep 17 billion pounds of pollution out of the air.
If all windows were as efficient as the best products now widely available in the marketplace, the average household would save $150 a year, and reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by about 4,300 pounds per year.

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Missy Higgins
Amber Tamblyn
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Stephen H. Schneider
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My Baby's Future
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But scientists also say we can curb global warming and its consequences -- if we take bold, comprehensive action now that adds up to at least an 80 percent cut in carbon emissions by 2050, or 2 percent a year.
Click here to learn what Stanford climatologist
Stephen H. Schneider has to say about the 2% Solution
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The world's scientists agree: Global warming is real, here, and happening faster
than anyone predicted. But scientists also say we can curb global warming and
its consequences -- if we take bold, comprehensive action now that adds up to
at least an 80 percent cut in carbon emissions by 2050, or 2 percent
a year.
To build a cleaner, smarter and safer energy future that will meet and overcome
the most urgent challenge facing us today -- and protect everyone's children
-- we must all be part of the solution. Start
now!
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