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Energy
Efficiency POLL
How much of a difference
do you think you personally can make in terms of protecting the environment?
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Under:
age50
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Age
50 plus
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Make a difference
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64%
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50%
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Not make a difference
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34%
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48%
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Do
you Plan to or do you currently (Yes Response)
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Drive a hybrid vehicle
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8%
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8%
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Buy organic or local foods
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64%
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65%
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Recycle
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81%
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81%
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Change your driving habit
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62%
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64%
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Reduce water use
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82%
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82%
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Use energy efficient light
bulbs
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85%
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77%
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Own an energy efficient
appliance
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80%
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78%
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*AARP Consumer Research Survey
March 26 thru April 6, 2008
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when-an inflection point seems to have been reached. The rate of population
increase began to slow. In more and more countries, women started having fewer
children than the number required to keep populations stable....
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decide to spend their 20s clubbing rather than child-rearing, and their cash on
handbags rather than nappies, that's up to them. But the transition to a lower
population can be a difficult one, and it is up to governments to ease it....
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Apparently Otto von Bismarck did not set retirement age at 65 as the legends
tell us. He set it at 70 (he was 74 at the time). In 1889, Germany set up old
age security pensions. And this may have seemed an easy thing because only
about 2% of Germany's population reached that age and average life expectancy
was 72...
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