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- The Columbia River Treaty: On Track. How About A Columbia River Compact?
- Dead Swine-Gate: Anatomy of a Chinese Scandal
- Mercury in Seafood Diet Linked to Fox Die-Off
- GE Crop Thriller Leaves Bond and Bourne for Dust
- Supreme Court Supports Monsanto in Seed-Replication Case
- Spray On Solar Windows Inch Closer to Market
- Researchers Think Industrious Oysters Could Clean Up Chesapeake
- Rethinking Ground Water Resources Management: A Local Approach Along the Mexico-US Border
- Just How Stressed Out Is Your Drinking Water?
- WATER POLLUTION: EPA Stumbles Again in Releasing More CAFO Documents
- Fewer Rain Forests Mean Less Energy for Developing Nations, Study Finds
- College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists
- It Doesn’t Matter If We Never Run Out of Oil: We Won’t Want to Burn It Anymore
- White House Arctic strategy: What’s next for oil, gas drilling?
- Food & Water Watch Sues FDA for Concealing Records on Arsenic in Poultry Feed
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- People who water their lawn with an automatic timer use 47 percent more water than those who just use a hose.
- 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!
- A typical chocolate bar has a water footprint of 449 gallons.
- Irrigation-intensive agricultural diverts 70 percent of the world's available freshwater each year.
- On average, one apple has a water footprint of 33 gallons.
- By 1965, 10 billion livestock animals were slaughtered annually. Today, that number has risen to 55 billion!
- 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!
- 25 percent of all freshwater consumed in the US is associated with discarded food -- about as much as the volume of Lake Erie.
- Just 2% of the nation's livestock farms raise 40 percent of all slaughtered animals in the US.
- A frack job used 4.5 million gallons, of which a amount approximately 10 to 40 percent flows back to the surface as toxic water.
- Poultry farms often sear off as much as half of a chicken's beak to prevent aggression brought on by cramped living conditions.
- Producing 2.2 pounds of beef takes enough energy to light a 100 watt bulb for twenty days.
- The meat industry generates nearly one-fifth of the man-made greenhouse gas emissions. One more reason to go Meatless Monday!
- 200,000: The number of electric drive vehicles - hybrids, extended range and battery - that have been purchased in the United States in 2012.
- One egg has a water footprint of 53 gallons.
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