Tree-Hugger Factoid #41

5 December 2011, 18:03

It would cost about $13 billion annually to satisfy the world's basic sanitation and food requirements. As they point out, that's roughly equivalent to what Americans and Europeans spend on perfume and cologne every year

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Posted by Alp Bozkurt

Tree-Hugger Factoid #40

1 November 2011, 14:24

To generate the same amount of electricity as today's U.S. wind turbine fleet 25,170 MW as of the end of 2008 would require burning 34.4 million tons of coal a line of 10-ton trucks over 13,700 miles long or 112 million barrels of oil each year.

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Posted by Andrew Turner, AIA

Tree-Hugger Factoid #39

16 September 2011, 14:03

Every year, in the US we pave over roughly 1.3 million acres of formerly unpaved land according to a Carrying Capacity Network conference held in Washington, DC. that's almost twice the size of the Hawaiian Islands

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Posted by Alp Bozkurt

Tree-Hugger Factoid #38

18 August 2011, 13:03

In a lifetime, the average American will throw away 600 times his/her adult weight in garbage. If you add it up, this means that a 150-lb. adult will leave a legacy of 90,000 lbs of trash for his/her children.

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Posted by Julia Schafer

Tree-Hugger Factoid #37

1 July 2011, 15:46

From 1906 to 2000, areas of Houston inside the Beltway have subsided 6 to 10 feet, with the most pronounced in areas along the Houston ship channel

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Posted by Greg Ryden, AIA

Tree-Hugger Factoid #36

1 June 2011, 19:31

Children can identify up to 1000 corporate logos but fewer than 10 plants or animals native to their backyards.

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Posted by Alp Bozkurt

Tree-Hugger Factoid #35

14 April 2011, 21:02

$1 out of every $11 Americans spend for food goes for packaging.

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Posted by Julia Schafer

Tree-Hugger Factoid #34

28 March 2011, 20:46

In 1865, an estimated 10,000 hogs roamed New York City, eating garbage. Now, one of every six U.S. trucks is a garbage truck.

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Posted by Julia Schafer

Tree-Hugger Factoid #33

2 March 2011, 14:25

A single 1-MW turbine displaces 1,800 tons of carbon dioxide, the primary global warming pollutant, each year equivalent to planting a square mile of forest, based on the current average U.S. utility fuel mix.

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Posted by Andrew Turner, AIA

Tree-Hugger Factoid #32

16 February 2011, 14:21

Countless bolts of unused textile fabric end up in landfills each year. Furniture factories and upholsters discard the Customers Own Material upon completion of their furniture. Many are high quality designer fabrics. Utilize existing sources of fabric before resorting to consuming more reaw materials. Check out modern-fabrics.com and EBay for excess COM fabric for sale

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Posted by Julia Schafer

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