Year in Review While Testing Your Green IQ

(From GreenerDesign.com....)

SustainableMinds, a green product design software and information company bringing environmental sustainability to mainstream product design, offers up this year-in-review take on 2009, "taken from our perusals of some of the quirkier green stories we've seen this year."

Go ahead: Test your green cred.

1. What's greener, reading the New York Times on a PDA or on paper?

2. What plastic bottles are safe to re-use, by numerical designation?

3. Name the Green Car of the Year.

4. Name the six most prevalent greenhouse gases.

5. What common social ritual produces 63 tons of CO2 and 400-600 pounds of trash?

6. What do all the numbers on plastic bottles represent?

7. How much energy do buildings consume in the U.S., by percentage?

8. What is LCA and why is it an important factor in product design?

9. In a conventional washing machine, what percentage of energy is used to heat the water?

10. A prominent story this year featured a racing car made from recycled materials that runs on which biofuel?

11. What team won this year's Solar Decathlon challenge for energy-efficient, solar-powered homes?

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