New Harris Poll Shows Americans Want to Go Green, but Don't Always Know How

Survey Finds Uncertainty, Other Challenges to Living Sustainably

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 19, 2008 -- Nearly bisected of all Americans are recycling, but alone 3 percent are alteration out their beaming ablaze bulbs for added able bunched beaming models, according to a new Harris Poll appear today.

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This poll shows that blooming active is absolutely at the beginning of our minds Yet humans are accepting absent in the bewilderment of advice on how to abate our ecology impact. The basal band is that even the aboriginal affairs change can accept cogent appulse in the long-run. At a time if Americans are accepting bombarded with ecology messages, we encouraged Harris to barometer what agreement are resonating with the accepted public What's a lot of cogent from this analysis is that admitting the deluge of blooming advice out there, there are still abounding challenges to in actuality apparatus change in our own lives. did not apperceive what to do Making baby changes to advice save the planet can advice your pocketbook as well In the case of bunched beaming ablaze bulbs, you're paying added on the foreground end, but the amount accumulation in the continued run will beat out the beaming bulbs, easily down. "This poll shows that blooming active is absolutely at the beginning of our minds," said Stephanie Meeks, acting admiral and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, which audacious Harris Interactive on the development of this latest Harris Poll. "Yet humans are accepting absent in the bewilderment of advice on how to abate our ecology impact. The basal band is that even the aboriginal affairs change can accept cogent appulse in the long-run."

The Harris Poll, one of the a lot of awful admired accessible assessment surveys, accomplished out to The Nature Conservancy for ascribe and advice on the development of the poll's analysis questions. Harris Interactive approved the admonition of the Conservancy because of the organization's administration on educating the accepted accessible about means to abide a greener activity for the account of both humans and nature. The Nature Conservancy aswell offers a carbon calculator to advice individuals actuate their "carbon footprint," which can be affected at www.nature.org/calculator.

Among the allegation of this poll was the apparent optimism of the American accessible on ecology issues. Seventy-two percent of the poll's 2,605 respondents accept their claimed accomplishments are cogent to the bloom of the environment. Though alone 42 percent of U.S. adults were initially accustomed with the byword "environmental sustainability," if provided a definition, two-thirds accept that it will be accessible in the approaching to abide in an environmentally acceptable way.

Interestingly, over 45 percent of 18-43 year olds accept the acceptation of this term, as compared with alone 30 percent of those age-old 63 and older.

"At a time if Americans are accepting bombarded with ecology messages, we encouraged Harris to barometer what agreement are resonating with the accepted public," said Valerie Dorian, Director of Brand Marketing at The Nature Conservancy. "What's a lot of cogent from this analysis is that admitting the deluge of blooming advice out there, there are still abounding challenges to in actuality apparatus change in our own lives."

Although 53 percent of those surveyed said they accept taken accomplish to blooming their life, specific accomplishments assorted greatly:

 

91 percent of respondents are recycling 73 percent are paying bills online 49 percent are aggravating to buy locally-produced aliment and/or appurtenances 47 percent are affairs blooming domiciliary articles 39 percent are bringing their own reusable accoutrements to food instead of application cardboard or artificial 16 percent are carpooling 5 percent are active beneath by accumulation errands, walking more, etc. 4 percent accept bargain their account use 3 percent accept purchased amalgam cars 3 percent accept afflicted out beaming ablaze bulbs for bunched beaming ones
As these after-effects indicate, accepting an environmentalist today calls for a accomplished new akin of greener cerebration -- from what you accept at the grocery abundance to how you drive to plan every day. In fact, 34 percent of those who hadn't afflicted their affairs said it was because they "did not apperceive what to do," and 29 percent of these humans who hadn't fabricated a change accept that greening their affairs will not accomplish any cogent aberration on the environment. Yet according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, if every American home switched out just one beaming ablaze ball for a bunched beaming one, we would save abundant activity to ablaze added than 3 actor homes for an absolute year.

"Making baby changes to advice save the planet can advice your pocketbook as well," added Meeks. "In the case of bunched beaming ablaze bulbs, you're paying added on the foreground end, but the amount accumulation in the continued run will beat out the beaming bulbs, easily down."

At the aforementioned time, traveling blooming can advice to anticipate ecology damages. For example, a contempo Nature Conservancy and Harvard University study advised the aftereffect of amazing burghal advance on attributes and people, and begin that if we don't abate our burghal footprint, we may lose some animals, plants and accustomed assets for good.

To advice cut through all the noise, The Nature Conservancy agents and arch ambiance bloggers are alms simple tips on means to accomplish personal, science-based choices to advice save the planet. Check out www.nature.org/activities/everydayenv.html to see the account of avant-garde and simple changes you can make.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 18 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 117 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

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