NEW THINKER OF THE MONTH

Innovative individuals are doing some creative problem solving by re-thinking things
we take for granted. Noah Horowitz, an NRDC engineer, took a look at the energy
hogging vending machine.

There is now one soda machine for every 100 Americans! Some 3 million machines are
humming away 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using 10 times more energy than the
average refrigerator (the biggest energy user in your home). Noah started looking at
solutions like more efficient compressors, fans and lighting. He also rethought some
of the simplest things like not having outdoor machines running all night in the middle
of winter. The result is new machines that use half the energy of old ones. And
when Coke and Pepsi finish phasing in the new designs, the savings will be 5 billion
kilowatt hours per year!

We become more powerful in our numbers, so I challenge all of you to
get 5 new people to join the Virtual March at StopGlobalWarming.org.
By spreading the word, we are creating thousands of new global warming
activists. It takes an army, and we are building one!