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- The Columbia River Treaty: On Track. How About A Columbia River Compact?
- Dead Swine-Gate: Anatomy of a Chinese Scandal
- Why Federal Efforts to Ensure Clean Tap Water Fail to Reach Faucets Nationwide
- Cooling-Tower Controversy Heats Up at Power Plants, Refinery
- Kroger Uses Food Waste to Power California Distribution Center
- Mercury in Seafood Diet Linked to Fox Die-Off
- Solar Bill Stalls in Texas Senate After Power Industry Opposition
- Landlords Double as Energy Brokers
- Solar Powered Highways - The Roads of the Future?
- Losing Water: Water Shortages Are a Major Problem for Future Energy Projects
- Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
- Mysterious Poop Foam Causes Explosions on Hog Farms
- US-EU Trade Deal Could Take Monsanto’s GM Crops Off the Table
- GE Crop Thriller Leaves Bond and Bourne for Dust
- Supreme Court Supports Monsanto in Seed-Replication Case
Quick Facts
- 73 percent of the Earth's surface water is locked in ice and snow.
- Only.007% of all water on earth is accessible for direct human use.
- The earth receives 1500 times as much energy than humans use from the sun each day.
- One glass of milk has a water footprint of 52 gallons.
- Corn accounts for 8 percent of global water use for crop production.
- A single margherita pizza requires 333 gallons of water, enough to fill almost ten bathtubs!
- About 40 calories of fossil fuel energy go into every calorie of feed lot beef in the US. One more reason to go Meatless Monday!
- Together, China and India have 37 percent of the world's population, but are home to just 10.8 percent of the world's water.
- The average American throws away 20 pounds of food each month or about two-thirds of a pound per person per day.
- 41% of energy used in the home is for space heating, which is the #1 energy user in our homes.
- On average, each American directly uses more water outdoors (101 gallons per day) than indoors (69 gallons per day).
- About 29% of the total water footprint of the agricultural sector in the world is related to the production of animal products.
- 200,000: The number of electric drive vehicles - hybrids, extended range and battery - that have been purchased in the United States in 2012.
- Organic farms use as much as one-third less fossil fuels than their conventional counterparts, and can sequester carbon!
- Due to inappropriate breeding strategies that favor growth over bird welfare, 90% of broiler chickens have trouble walking.
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