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 | The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will keep a light bulb burning for 4 hours. |
| Each high quality reusable shopping bag you use has the potential to eliminate hundreds, if not thousands, of plastic bags over its lifetime. |  |
 | In 200 B.C., people in China and the Middle East used windmills to pump water and grind grain. |
| The first modern wind turbine was built in Vermont in the early 1940s. |  |
| Wind farms currently produce enough electricity to meet the needs of more than 600,000 families in the United States. |
| An average wind speed of 14 miles per hour is needed to convert wind energy into electricity. |  |
 | One wind turbine can produce enough electricity to power up to 300 homes. |
| Almost half of the renewable energy produced in the United States comes from biomass sources, like wood and paper products. | |
| In Iowa and Wisconsin, biomass energy from landfills and dairy farms is being used to make electricity. |
| In southern Iowa, a power plant is using a crop called switchgrass to make electricity. |  |
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