does anyone have any environmental facts?

Question

im looking for short environmental facts (both positive and negative) such as:

One ton of recycled Paper saves 60 pounds of Air Pollutants from being released
or

Every Sunday, more than 500,000 trees are used to produce the 88% of newspapers that are never recycled

facts should be about that long -SHORT AND SIMPLE-

THE MORE I CAN GET THE BETTER

im trying to guilt people into joining the environmental club at my school :)


thanks in advance for you help!

Answer 1

pacific lumber is sure not on my company hitparade

link number two is about how timber industry’s eco
marketing scheme deceives consumers, destroys forests.
(conservation groups expose industry’s misleading “green”
certification & marketing scheme for wood&paper products)

Answer 2

Every year the Architectural Coatings Industry ( Paint) extracts a 1/2 billion gallons of water ( Drinking water) from the ground to make PAINT. Totally out of the 'Green Building' concept.
They use drinking water to make PAINT, when recycled water is a suitable alternate, readily available and proven.

This is but one of the many water based-borne and reducible manufacturers: Household cleaners, windshield wash, Anti-Freeze...
you can expose your school to this http:/www.vitabrewcoffee.com/water.html

Answer 3

More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours -- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.

Answer 4

1.Children who lived near streets traveled by more than 20,000 cars
a day were six times more likely to develop cancer than those who
lived in quieter neighborhoods, where local traffic was less than
500 vehicles per day, the study found.

2.Motor vehicles are responsible for about one-third of global oil use,
but for nearly two-thirds of US oil use. In the rest of the world,
heating and power generation account for most oil use.
3.Americans now use automobiles for more than 90
percent of their daily trips. An average person travels more than 9,000
miles a year by car, compared with less than 4,000 miles four decades
ago. The average driver spends 443 hours a year behind the wheel.

Answer 5

I have lots of info that I think you will find quite helpful and enlightening:

http://ecowellness.multiply.com/ for excellent inspirational info within my blog to help not only our world and its creatures, but to also open peoples hearts and minds to many amazing wonders that life has to offer. I also have lots of info in my blog to help fuel peoples imaginations to many possibilities that can be found only in the minds eye.

Along with lots of environmental info, amazing environmental pictures and videos (These videos show the beauty of this world and what life can be like if people take the time to appreciate life’s true beauty).

Let us all strive for a greener/brighter future by helping to create a solid foundation for future generations to build upon, so we can hand them a beautiful world, filled with never ending awe and wonders!!

Where peoples differences and uniqueness are accepted, where we all live as one, helping one another so that we can all play our own mysteriously beautiful melodies in the never ending, awe inspiring, song of life :-)

I truly have faith in humanity and believe that someday our lives and the world in which we live will truly be transformed for the better.

Answer 6

No no no no no no, don't guilt them! Find perks, like reserving the group campground nearby and having a get-together weekend. Back when, the guilt thing really put me off, and it was years before I came back to working as a volunteer and then staff on behalf of the environment. Quite a few lost years, as near as I can tell.

Answer 7

go to think.mtv.com and/or climatecrisis.org and/ or watch the movie the Inconvenient Truth, Global Warming What you Need to Know, and Who Killed the Electric car.

Answer 8

STOP!!!!!!!

What ever you do don't try to make people feel guilty to persuade them into joining anything. You are manipulating their fears. Eventually they will stop feeling afraid and return to doing what they always did.

Tell them all the positive stuff about a green lifestyle. Better still show them by watching the links below: