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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
- Wasted Opportunity
- Kroger Uses Food Waste to Power California Distribution Center
- Hospitals Say ’’No’’ to Meat Raised with Antibiotics
- US To Introduce Stricter Rules on Meat Imports, Labels
- 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
Quick Facts
- One egg has a water footprint of 53 gallons.
- A shower leaking just 10 drips per minute wastes 500 gallons of water per year. That's enough water to run your dishwasher every day for two months!
- 16: The number of U.S. states that generate more than 10% of their electricity from renewable sources.
- In 2010, 14.5 percent of American households and 20 percent of households with children were food insecure at some point.
- Due to inappropriate breeding strategies that favor growth over bird welfare, 90% of broiler chickens have trouble walking.
- Nearly 70% of swine confinement workers suffer from a respiratory illness or irritation. 58% of workers suffer chronic bronchitis.
- Approximately 80% of all antibiotics sold in the US are administered to farm animals to promote growth and prevent infections.
- 20 percent of the Earth's surface water is in lakes.
- The transportation sector made up 28 percent of US energy conumption in 2011
- On average, one large banana has a water footprint of 42 gallons.
- Organic farms use as much as one-third less fossil fuels than their conventional counterparts, and can sequester carbon!
- 73 percent of the Earth's surface water is locked in ice and snow.
- The majority of oil the US oil imports are from Canada (24%), Mexico (9%), Saudi Arabia (12%), Nigeria (11%) and Venezuela (10%).
- A piece of A5 paper has a water footprint of 3 gallons, but amounts vary depending on wood.
- Creating a gallon of ethanol consumes about 100 gallons of freshwater. In some regions, ethanol production can take three or more times that amount.
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