Green Ideas

Take the stairs!

Skip the elevator!

And reduce your carbon footprint.

Plus it's healthier too!

"Taking the stairs also reduces electricity use in general. By how much, I am not sure. The best information I could find (from the National Park Service) is that using an elevator to travel 1 floor requires 350 watt-hours of energy. So if you take an elevator 4 times a day (twice up and twice down) 4 flights a day, that amounts to 5.6 kWh/day. Over a year, you would by yourself use 1.5 MWh or (using a standard conversion factor of 0.43 kilograms of carbon dioxide per kWh) 0.71 tons of carbon. And don't think you get out of this by sharing the elevator - the more folks in the 'vador, the more electricity is needed to run the lift."

hope-for-pandora.blogspot.com/2007/05/carbon-footprint-take-stairs.html