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Average Carbon Footprint for Old Town, Maine

Carbon Output (metric tons)

Average	13.38
High	130.98
Low	0.33

Carbon Score (ECP)

Average	330
High	999
Low	156

Top 10 "Go Green" Pledges by members from Old Town

1.	I will eat one vegetarian meal each week
2.	I will change 4 light bulbs to cfl's
3.	I will turn my computer monitor off overnight
4.	I will plant one tree
5.	I will switch to green power
6.	I will buy carbon offsets for my next flight
7.	I will carpool one day a week
8.	I will use my clothes dryer conservatively
9.	I will remove and throw my bottle cap away before I recycle my plastic bottle
10.	I will inflate my car tires

The Port of Portland receives crude oil shipments, which it then sends via pipeline to refineries in Quebec and Ontario.
About three-quarters of Maine's households – the highest share in the Nation – use fuel oil for home heating.
Maine generates a larger share of its electricity from nonhydroelectric renewable resources than any other State.
Maine is the only New England State in which industry is the leading energy-consuming sector.
Maine has the highest wood and wood waste power generation capacity in the United States.

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