Our Impact on the Earth
TV ads, magazine, newspapers, everywhere you look there are stories about going green.
What are they talking about? What does it mean to be green? Well, going green is about our planet and actually protecting it from, well us.
The world clock has more that 306,621,000,000! Which changes every second.
That's a lot of people.
People that need somewhere to live, eat, play and work.
That is more that six and a half billion people that eat, drink and go to the bathroom!The average American produces an average of 1,600 pounds of garbage a year.
And that just household garbage, this number does not include commercial waste.
If you have a commode that was built before 1982, 5 to 7 gallons of water is being used to flush.
Commodes constructed between 1982 and 1993, only 3-1/2 gallons are going down the drain.
Commodes made after 1993 use 1.
6 gallons per flush.
A conventional washing machine uses 37 gallons per load, 2 gallons per minute is used when taking a shower and brushing your teeth uses a gallon of water.
In a person's lifetime, on average they produce 10 tons of Carbon dioxide.
Carbon Dioxide is a chemical compound produced during respiration and used by plants during photosynthesis.
Carbon Dioxide is also a byproduct of the combustion of fossil fuels.
Coal, Natural Gas and Oil are the three main forms of fossil fuels.
Plants and trees died, sank into the swamps and oceans forming peat.
The peat was covered with sand, clay and other minerals that eventually turned into rock.
Rock formed on top of rock and eventually squeezed all the water out of the peat.
Over hundreds of years the peat then turned into coal, Oil or Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Fossil fuels are used for everything that we do.
Oil is turned into fuel for cars, planes, boats and trains.
Natural gas is used for heat and cooking, coal is heated to produce steam and generate electricity.
The use of these fuels produces emissions that are released into the atmosphere which thereby heat up the earth, i.
e.
global warming.
Additional, these natural resources are not renewable, in other words, once they are gone, they are gone.
It takes millions of years for this process to repeat, we are constantly using what we have and there will come a time that our fossil fuels run out.
It is vital to look for alternate fuels and ways to create them, what's considered renewal forms of energy.
Cleaner, renewal energy? Well, there is water and air and the sun.
Windmills are used to produce electricity and to pump water among other things.
The sun can be an incredible source of energy for powering homes.
Corn can be used for ethanol for motor vehicles, instead of all that high fructose corn syrup in everything we eat! As we wait for newer, cleaner energy forms, it is imperative to reduce how much we use the existing forms of fuels.
What are they talking about? What does it mean to be green? Well, going green is about our planet and actually protecting it from, well us.
The world clock has more that 306,621,000,000! Which changes every second.
That's a lot of people.
People that need somewhere to live, eat, play and work.
That is more that six and a half billion people that eat, drink and go to the bathroom!The average American produces an average of 1,600 pounds of garbage a year.
And that just household garbage, this number does not include commercial waste.
If you have a commode that was built before 1982, 5 to 7 gallons of water is being used to flush.
Commodes constructed between 1982 and 1993, only 3-1/2 gallons are going down the drain.
Commodes made after 1993 use 1.
6 gallons per flush.
A conventional washing machine uses 37 gallons per load, 2 gallons per minute is used when taking a shower and brushing your teeth uses a gallon of water.
In a person's lifetime, on average they produce 10 tons of Carbon dioxide.
Carbon Dioxide is a chemical compound produced during respiration and used by plants during photosynthesis.
Carbon Dioxide is also a byproduct of the combustion of fossil fuels.
Coal, Natural Gas and Oil are the three main forms of fossil fuels.
Plants and trees died, sank into the swamps and oceans forming peat.
The peat was covered with sand, clay and other minerals that eventually turned into rock.
Rock formed on top of rock and eventually squeezed all the water out of the peat.
Over hundreds of years the peat then turned into coal, Oil or Petroleum and Natural Gas.
Fossil fuels are used for everything that we do.
Oil is turned into fuel for cars, planes, boats and trains.
Natural gas is used for heat and cooking, coal is heated to produce steam and generate electricity.
The use of these fuels produces emissions that are released into the atmosphere which thereby heat up the earth, i.
e.
global warming.
Additional, these natural resources are not renewable, in other words, once they are gone, they are gone.
It takes millions of years for this process to repeat, we are constantly using what we have and there will come a time that our fossil fuels run out.
It is vital to look for alternate fuels and ways to create them, what's considered renewal forms of energy.
Cleaner, renewal energy? Well, there is water and air and the sun.
Windmills are used to produce electricity and to pump water among other things.
The sun can be an incredible source of energy for powering homes.
Corn can be used for ethanol for motor vehicles, instead of all that high fructose corn syrup in everything we eat! As we wait for newer, cleaner energy forms, it is imperative to reduce how much we use the existing forms of fuels.
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