EARTH DAY!Some Facts, to Be a Citizen, and

Action

Earth Day is a global event.

Activities and events

are held each year as

a show of support for

Earth’s environment

.

Celebrated each year on April 22.

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

Only ___% of Earth’s water is fresh water.  ___% of the water on Earth is salt water.

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

Only 3% of Earth’s water is fresh water.  97% of the water on Earth is salt water.

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

Water covers ________% of the Earth’s surface.

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

Water covers 70.9% of the Earth’s surface.

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

Residential Europeans use about ______ gallons per day.

Residential North Americans use about ______ gallons per day.

Residents of sub-Saharan Africa use only _______ gallons of water per day.

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

Residential Europeans use about 50 gallons per day.

Residential North Americans use about 100 gallons per day.

Residents of sub-Saharan Africa use only 2-5 gallons of water per day.

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

The average faucet flows at a rate of _______ gallons per minute.  You can save up to four gallons of water every morning by turning off the faucet while you brush your teeth. 

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

The average faucet flows at a rate of 2 gallons per minute.  You can save up to four gallons of water every morning by turning off the faucet while you brush your teeth. 

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

A running toilet can waste up to _____ gallons of water per day.

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

A running toilet can waste up to 200 gallons of water per day.

MORE WATER FACTS

It takes more water to manufacture a new car (39,090 gallons) than to fill an above ground swimming pool.

It takes more than ten gallons of water to produce one slice of bread.

Over 713 gallons of water go into the production of one cotton T-shirt. 1000 gallons of water are required to produce 1 gallon of milk.

Roughly 634 gallons of water go into the production of one hamburger.

Water is the only substance found on earth naturally in three forms: solid, liquid and gas.

At 1 drip per second, a faucet can leak 3,000 gallons per year.

Water makes up between 55-78% of a human’s body weight.

WATER BOTTLES

What’s the deal?

• Over 80% of bottles are thrown away (but plastic bottles leak chemicals, endangering your health!)

• They take 1,000 years to biodegrade

• In the US alone the production:

• Requires 17+ million barrels of oil (plus transport)

• Produces 2.5+ million tons of carbon dioxide

• Requires 3L of water to produce 1L bottled water

• Minimize production &

transport cost• No extra water

usage• Save money• Less trash

Original price = $25

Our price $15 pesos (subsidized by NHS)

http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/10/24/poptech-chris-jordan-plastic-bottles-all.jpg

Unbelievable…

WATER TRIVIA

Each gallon of gas burned releases 22 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In a year, the average car emits five tons of carbon dioxide into the air. With over 120 million automobiles in the United States, automobile emissions account for 33 percent of all carbon dioxide and 45 percent of all nitrous oxide released into the sky, making the car the single largest contributor to global warming.

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

The automobile is also responsible for 60 percent of the total air pollution in most U.S. cities. Cars emit 69 percent of all the lead, 70 percent of the carbon monoxide and are responsible for 60 percent of the ground ozone.

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

Lighting accounts for 25 percent of North American electricity use. Substituting a fluorescent light for a traditional bulb can keep a half ton of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere over the duration of the lightbulb's lifespan.

WATER TRIVIA

Recycling one aluminum can saves an amount of energy equivalent to half that can filled with gasoline.

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

North Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.

WATER TRIVIA

Every year some 45,000 tons of plastic waste are dumped into the world's oceans. One of the results of this is that up to one million seabirds and one hundred thousand marine mammals are killed each year by plastic trash.

WATER TRIVIA

Can you guess…?

Recycling one aluminum can saves an amount of energy equivalent to half that can filled with gasoline.

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

North Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.

WHY SHOULD YOU CARPOOL?(OR USE MASS TRANSIT, OF COURSE!)

• By 2030 the number of cars in the world will increase by 50%

• According to Chevron, the world uses 2 barrels of oil for every 1 discovered

• It took 125 years for the world to consume 1 trillion barrels of oil, the world will consume the next trillion in only 30

• Each gallon of gasoline burned creates 19 pounds of CO2

+ its cheaper & probably more enjoyable for YOU!

The purpose is to show global support for the protection of our

environment.

Earth Day is celebrated worldwide in over 192

countries.

The first Earth day was held on April 22, 1970.

In the late 1960’s and into 1970, most Americans paid little attention to the

damage being done to our environment.

Most Americans drove very large cars that got very poor gas mileage. Not only were petroleum

products being used excessively, but

automobile emissions were polluting the air.

Many industries paid little attention to the damage they

were doing to the environment.

Earth Day 1970 was organized to promote awareness for our environment, and to encourage all people to take better care of the environment.

Gaylord Nelson, a US Senator from Wisconsin, proposed and organized

the first Earth Day in 1970. As a result, on

April 20, 1970, 20 million Americans took up the environmental cause and protested.

Thousands of schools, colleges and universities

participated in the first Earth Day. The participants

led peaceful demonstrations in

favor of environmental

reform.

Americans protested against oil spills….

…polluting industries and power plants…..

….the dumping of raw sewage….

…..the dumping of toxins, such as pesticides

and other toxic wastes, into streams and

rivers…..

…..the loss of wilderness and deforestation…..

…..and the extinction of many wildlife species.

The first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the

passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts.

In 1990 Earth Day went global, mobilizing 200

million people in 141 countries

In 1995 President Bill Clinton awarded Senator Nelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the highest

honor given to civilians in the United States -- for his role as Earth Day founder.

In 2010, on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the Earth Day Network launched a

“Billion Acts of Green.” Participants were asked to register their “acts of green” and state what they

were doing to protect the environment.

By April 22, 2012, one

billion actions had

been recorded by the people

of the world.

The Earth Day Network has now set as its goal, 2 billion “acts of green.”

You can record your actions here: http://act.earthday.org/index.html

Sources

http://water.epa.gov/learn/kids/drinkingwater/water_trivia_facts.cfm

http://www.minambiente.gov.co//contenido/contenido.aspx?catID=1200&conID=7048

BUT WHAT CAN I DO?

InvestigateAsk your professors

Haha…Here we go…

HAPPY EARTH DAY!