Be Green: An Environmental Contest
The Contestants___MiKiMiN___Flamethrower.x Dropped out.Akatsuki--g i r l--Yukiiemii2014~Darklady_Adsagsona~jump2020206JessiiCullenSlowly Falling AwayShadows DivideKyoko364BaronetteIf your name is bolded that means you are confirmed for the contest.If your name is striked then you were disqualified because you weren't green by the proper time.The FactsRemember, you need to cite your sources. By the end of Green Week you need to have eight facts, one from entering the contest and seven for every day of Green Week.
retro shrimp's facts✘ Only 1% of China’s 560 million city residents breathe air that is considered safe by the European Union
✘ The Wall Street bailout is costing taxpayers around $700 billion and growing. Yet, just 4% of the Wall Street bailout could end world hunger.
✘ Less than 1% of the world’s freshwater is readily available for human use. The amount of water that’s safe for us to use is declining sharply due to pollution and contamination. 87% of freshwater resources are used for agriculture, as much of 60% of that is wasted due to inefficient watering systems.
✘ And of course, not all trash even makes it to the landfill. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is a swirling vortex of waste and debris in the Pacific Ocean, covers an area twice the size of the continental U.S. and is believed to hold almost 100 million tons of garbage.
✘ 20 to 50 million metric tons of electronic waste are generated worldwide every year. Only 11.4% of that is recovered for “recycling”, and of that amount, very little actually ends up getting recycled.
✘ Within 10 years, wind power could provide 20% of America’s power. North Dakota alone could theoretically produce enough wind-generated power to meet the needs of more than a fourth of U.S. electricity demand. And, offshore wind turbines have the potential to produce as much power as all of the power plants in the United States.
✘ Recycling one ton of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrels of oil, 4,100 kilowatts of energy, 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space and 60 pounds of air pollution.
✘ One in four mammals is at risk of extinction. Marine mammals in particular face even steeper odds, with one in three threatened. Humans are mostly to blame as we’ve encroached upon their habitats, polluted the earth and hunted far too many of them. The problem is especially bad in Asia, where agricultural expansion and development of infrastructure has led to a staggering statistic: 79 percent of the continent’s primate species face extinction. Across the world, 78 percent of marine mammals are threatened by accidental deaths such as getting caught in fishing nets intended for other species.
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___MiKiMiN___Fact #1: Americans dump over 15 tons of sewage into their streams and oceans, every minute. [
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Fact #2: Every time you Google you release .2 grams of CO2, with your computer included you release 7 grams of CO2. [
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Fact #3: At least 50 million acres of rainforest are lost every year, totaling an area the size of England, Wales and Scotland combined. [
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Fact #4: If the entire world lived like the average American, we’d need 5 planets to provide enough resources. [
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Fact #5: About 63 percent of backyard BBQs in the U.S. are fired up with briquettes, but using them to cook up a standard hamburger results in 105 times more carbon monoxide than if you cooked it on a propane grill. [
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Fact #6: A third of an average family's water use is flushed down the toilet. The average family uses the equivalent of two baths of water per day when flushing the toilet. [
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Fact #7: Americans now use 127 percent more water than we did in 1950. [
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Fact #8: A single acre of algae, even in an inefficient open pond, can produce 5,000 gallons of biodiesel per year. [
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Flamethrower.x Dropped out. D:Fact #1: In 2005, there were about 400 billion trees on earth. [
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Fact #2: If each gasoline-powered lawn mower spills one litre of fuel per season, there would be 56 million liters of fuel spilled. This is the amount carried by about 2,800 tanker trucks. [
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Fact #3: If the entire world lived like the average American, we’d need 5 planets to provide enough resources. [
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Akatsuki--g i r l--YukiiFact #1: Americans throw away about 40 billion soft drink cans and bottles every year. Placed end to end, they would reach to the moon and back nearly 20 times. [
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Fact #2: Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill the 1,350-foot twin towers of New York's World Trade Center every two weeks. [
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Fact #3: About 110 million Americans live in areas with levels of air pollutants the federal government considers to be harmful. [
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Fact #4: Americans dump 16 tons of sewage into their waters--every minute of every day.
Fact #5: If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25 million trees a year. [
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Fact #6: Using recycled paper for one print run of the Sunday edition of the New York Times would save 75,000 trees. [
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Fact #7: Fact # 7: By turning the heat down, Americans could save more than 500,000 barrels of oil each day--that's over 21,000,000 gallons. [
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Fact #8: 99.5 percent of all fresh water on Earth is in icecaps and glaciers. [
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emii2014Fact #1: If every household in the U.S. replaced just one 32 oz. bottle of solvent-based carpet cleaner with hydrogen-peroxide-based carpet cleaner, we could prevent 11 mil. lbs. of petroleum-based solvents and glycol ethers from entering our environment. [
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Fact #2: Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880, much of this in recent decades, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. [
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Fact #3: The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century's last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia, according to a number of climate studies. And the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that 11 of the past 12 years are among the dozen warmest since 1850. [
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Fact #4: Coral reefs, which are highly sensitive to small changes in water temperature, suffered the worst bleaching—or die-off in response to stress—ever recorded in 1998, with some areas seeing bleach rates of 70 percent. Experts expect these sorts of events to increase in frequency and intensity in the next 50 years as sea temperatures rise. [
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Fact #5: If every American household recycled just one out of every ten HDPE bottles they used, we’d keep 200 million pounds of the plastic out of landfills every year. [
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Fact #6: The world's oceans contain nearly 20 million tons of gold. [
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Fact #7: One gallon of used motor oil can contaminate 1 million gallons of water. [
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Fact #8: New high efficiency lighting at Metro Subway stations uses 40% less energy. [
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jump2020206Fact #1: If everyone in Canada bought one reclaimed woolen garment each year, it would save an average of 300 million gallons of water and 400 tonnes of chemical dyes. [
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Fact #2: There is an average of 7 kilograms of textile waste (clothes, bedding, curtains, etc.) per person in landfills throughout Canada. [
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Fact #3: Textile waste accounts for more than 4% of materials in Canada's landfills. [
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Fact #4: Each year 75,000 tons of textile waste is recycled into new raw materials for the automotive, furniture, mattress, coarse yarn, home furnishings, paper, and other industries. [
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Fact #5: If all the textiles that are thrown away in one year were compressed together they could fill a solid structure, as wide and tall as the Skydome, 3 times over. [
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Fact #6: 80% of textiles thrown away still have 75% of their wearability. [
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Fact #7: Synthetic (man-made fibres) products will not decompose, and while woolen garments do decompose, they produce methane gas which causes global warming. 38% of Canada's methane emissions (greenhouse gases) comes from landfill sites. [
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Fact #8: Giving old clothing to local non-profit groups for reuse is suggested by Environment Canada as a way to reduce residential wastes. [
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Slowly Falling AwayFact #1: Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004. [
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Fact #2: About 1% of U.S. landfill space is full of disposable diapers, which take 500 years to decompose. [
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Fact #3: By planting 20 million trees, the earth and its people will be provided with 260 million more tons of oxygen. Those same 20 million trees will remove 10 million tons of CO2. [
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Fact #4: About 75 percent of the water we use in our homes is used in the bathroom. [
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Fact #5: The junk mail Americans receive in one day could produce enough energy to heat 250,000 homes. [
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Fact #6: Almost 100 cows die a day in the country as a result of eating discarded plastic bags. Avoid plastic as much as possible. [
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Fact #7: Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to keep your television for three hours. [
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Fact #8: Sulfur dioxide emissions have reduced by 38 percent or 13 million tons per year. These emissions are typically associated with large boilers. Acid rain has been a product of these emissions in the past. [
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Shadows DivideFact #1: Every second, a slice of rainforest the size of a football field is mowed down. That's 86,400 football fields of rainforest per day, or over 31 million football fields of rainforest each year. [
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Fact #2: The average person in the United States uses 80 to 100 gallons of water each day. During medieval times a person used only 5 gallons per day. [
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Fact #3: 60 percent is the reduction in developmental problems in children in China who were born after a coal-burning power plant closed in 2006. [
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Fact #4: 3 trillion is the number of gallons of water, along with $18 billion, the U.S. would save each year if every household invested in water-saving appliances [
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Fact #5: Each year an estimated, 1 million sea birds, 100,000 marine mammals, and 50,000 fur seals are killed as the result of eating or being strangled in plastic. [
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Fact #6: If the thermostats in every house in America were lowered 1 degree Fahrenheit during the winter, the nation would save 230 million barrels of crude oil—enough to fill an oil tanker 400 times. (That’s the amount of oil being imported into the United States from Iraq each year.) [
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Fact #7: Synthetic fertilizer drifting downstream is the main culprit for dead zones in delicate ocean environments, such as the Gulf of Mexico, where its dead zone is now larger than 22,000 square kilometers, an area larger than New Jersey. Going organic would prevent this. [
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Fact #8: The average American spends $8,410 per year to own a vehicle. An American who goes completely car-free can save hundreds to thousands of dollars annually, depending on the costs of other forms of transportation.
Kyoko364Fact #1: Avoiding 10 miles of driving every week would eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year. [
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Fact #2: 1% of Australia’s untapped geothermal power potential could provide enough energy to last 26,000 years. [
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Fact #3: For every 38,000 bills paid online, 5,058 pounds of greenhouse gases are avoided and two tons of trees are preserved. Using direct payment also saves a person about $150 annually in stamp and check costs and late fees. [
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Fact #4: The American Association of Wine Economists estimates global greenhouse gas emissions from wine production and distribution to be 5,336,600 tons—roughly the same amount that one million passenger vehicles would emit in a year. [
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Fact #5: If one out of every 100 American homes was retrofitted with water-efficient fixtures, we could save about 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year — avoiding 80,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. The greenhouse gas savings would be equivalent to removing nearly 15,000 automobiles from the road for one year. [
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Fact #6: If today is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square mils of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two square miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add twenty-seven hundred tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000. [
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Fact #7: One gallon of used motor oil can contaminate 1 million gallons of water. [
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Fact #8: Fact #8: The 36 billion aluminum cans landfilled last year had a scrap value of more than $600 million. (Some day we'll be mining our landfills for the resources we've buried.) [
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BaronetteFact #1: Every day in the U.S., we produce enough trash to equal the weight of the Empire State Building. We throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour, produce enough styrofoam cups annually to circle the earth 436 times and trash enough office paper to build a 12-foot wall form Los Angeles to New York City. [
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Fact #2: Cell phone chargers, TVs, DVD players, stereos, microwaves and other electronics with transformers continue to draw power, even when they're off or not charging anything, as long as they're plugged in. In the U.S., such "phantom electricity" emits about 12 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere a year, according to Conservation International. [
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Fact #3: Over 80% of a households annual waste can be recycled. [
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Fact #4: Organic farming can save up to 50% of energy, according to studies. Using manure can save 80% of the energy consumed by using synthetic fertilizers. [
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Fact #5: Americans spend an average of 90% of their time indoors, where indoor air is often 2 to 5 times more polluted than outdoor air. [
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Fact #6: Across the U.S., 12 million acres of lakes, estuaries and wetlands and 473,000 miles of streams, rivers and coasts are contaminated by mercury, which comes mainly from coal-fired power plant. [
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Fact #7: One in four mammals is at risk of extinction. Marine mammals in particular face even steeper odds, with one in three threatened. [
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