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From One Earth Day to the Next

FROM Things are always in motion on Earth. Life is never static-we are always inhaling and exhaling, producing and consuming, enjoying and reflecting, giving birth and dying. ONE Earth Day Find out what happens in one day on Earth that impacts every single one of its inhabitants, from microorganisms to humans and everywhere in between. TOTHE NEXT 370,000 people will be born today HI *Each unit - 100,000 That's *135,400,000 over people born since last Earth Day That's more than the entire population of Japan! 127,650,000 Between 150 & 200 species of plants, insects and animals will go extinct today That's about 55,000 to 73,000 species lost since last Earth Day *Each unit - 2.000 That's as many as the number of people killed in the Nagasaki bombing 60,000-80,000 80,000. Another acres of rain 80,000 forest will be destroyed today will be seriously damaged That's 29,200,000 acres lost and 29,200,000 damaged since last Earth Day That's 8.5 Death Valleys' worth of lost rainforest! 53,400. acres of deciduous forest will be destroyed today *Each unit = 53,400 About 19,500,000 acres lost since last Earth Day That's nearly the size of South Carolina! The Global Mean Sea Level (SMSL) will rise 30 thousandths of an inch today That's Humans will generate 0.13 inches 82,000,000 since last Earth Day metric tons of CO2 today Equal to about HALF the rate of increase 2X from 1910 to 1990 of the food Americans consume each year That's 30,000,000,000 metric tons of CO, emitted since last Earth Day 5X the amount of garbage produced by Americans each year We will produce 82,095,000 barrels of oil around the world today That's 29,964,675,000 barrels produced since last Earth Day *Each unit - 82,095,000 11,906,843 That could fill Olympic swimming pools We will use between 1,370,000,000 and 2,750,000,000 plastic bags today MEGA MART bags used since last Earth Day 500,000,000,000– 1,000,000,000,000 Stacked end to end, the amount of plastic bags we use annually would circle the earth 6,179.5-12,359 times. Nearly 2/5 marine mammals will be killed by plastic garbage in our oceans *Each unit = 10 That's 100,0000 marine mammals killed since last Earth Day 1,900-2,750 seabirds will be killed by plastic garbage in our oceans today *Each unit - 100 700,000- 1000,000 That's marine mammals killed since last Earth Day Every American will use paper and wood products equivalent to 2% of one tree today That's 2,000,000,000 trees used every year by Americans alone since last Earth Day Change The Patterns: Plant a tree. Walk to work. Bring your own bags to the store. Recycle. Don't litter. Save the Earth. Sources: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/01/25/there-are-now-more-iphones-sold-than-babies-born-in-the-world-every-day/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/16/nature-economic-security http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id-earth-talks-daily-destruction http://www.51tree.org/Abouttree.html http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/critical-issues-sea-level-rise/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id-limits-on-greenhouse-gas-emissions http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/54769/World,+U.S.+Oil+Production+Rises+in+2010 http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/54769/World, +U.S.+Oil+Production+Rises+in+2010 http://tic.howstuffworks.com/home/plastic-bag-facts.htm http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/debris/toolkit/files/trash_that_kills508.pdf http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/debris/toolkit/files/trash_that_kills508.pdf http://www.recycling-revolution.com/recycling-facts.html Be Green

From One Earth Day to the Next

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Now that Earth Day is behind us, let’s take a moment to reflect on what is happening to our planet. Each day the choices we make and the lifestyles we lead have consequences on our fragile ecosyste...

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