EARTH DAYWhat does it mean to you?

MORE ABOUT ―Earth Day‖

Here are several general facts you should know on Earth Day:

•US Senator Gaylord Nelson was the first person to offer the

idea for Earth Day in 1969.

•20 million people were eager to participate in the 1st Earth Day

in 1970.

•200 million people came to Earth Day’s 20th anniversary in

1990.

•Theta is a green Greek letter that became the symbol of Earth

Day.

•John McConnell was the first person who offered to make Earth

Day a global holiday.

Green is the new black

We should all be very concerned about our future on Earth as human beings.

Every year, the overall temperature has gone up slowly.

Eventually Earth will be too hot to live on, and the human race will become extinct!

The best way to save our future is to start now.

Indians should be conscientious of global warming and should watch their CO2 emissions because increasing CO2 concentrations means an increase in Earth's temperature.

FACTS about

Some fast facts about few simple yet important things we use daily in our life such as:

• WATER

• FOOD

• ELECTRICITY

• PAPER

and their impact on environment

SOME FACTS about WATER

• Lakes & River provide 47% of our water needs. The other 53% of water comes from underground sources.

• How our water use affects our world.

• Water --------it’s so easy to take it for granted.

• All you have to do is turn on the tap and there it is – as much you want for anything you want to do. Right?

• Let’s take a simple use of water ---Shower

LIFE STORY OF SHOWER

• The average urban household uses

94,000 gallons of water per year,

which is enough to fill 6 backyard swimming

pools.

• Heating water for a 10-minute shower creates 4.5 pounds of carbon dioxide—one of the gases that contributes to global warming.

• About 97% of the earth’s water is salt water, 2% is frozen in glaciers and ice-caps, and only 1% is fresh water.

• There is no more fresh water on Earth now then there was 2,000 years ago, when the population was less than 3% of its current size.

HOT SHOWER

• Your morning shower may not

seem like it uses a lot of water,

but that on shower uses more

then twice as much as the

average person in Rajasthan’s

village uses in an entire day.

• Before reaching your faucet, the water was stored in your hot-water tank.

HOT WATER TANK

• Creating hot water takes a lot

of energy, and producing that

energy often creates carbon

dioxide.

• Cold water reaches the tank through

underground pipes that lead into your

house from a water-treatment plant.

TREATMENT PLANT

• Some ―Scrubber‖ chemicals,

such as aluminum and chlorine,

are added to remove dirt and

disinfect the water.

• The Clean water flows out, but

the leftover muck, called sludge,

usually ends up in a landfill.

• The water that is cleaned by the treatment plant

comes from above-ground and underground water

sources.

ABOVE-GROUND WATER

• Often, rivers are dammed to create

artificial lakes called reservoirs.

• The reservoirs provide a steady

supply of water and hydroelectric

power.

• The creation of reservoirs often affects

the plants and animals that had been

living in and around the rivers before

they were dammed.

• For example, some of the rare fishes which flow from Himalayas are endangered because of the many dams that block their migration route to and from the sea.

UNDER-GROUND WATER

• Aquifers are underground

layers of rock that stores water.

• Because of increased demand,

we’re using water from many

aquifers faster than it can be

naturally replaced.

• This lowers the level of water in the aquifer, which often causes springs and streams to dry up—disrupting the ecosystems that depend on them.

Take ACTION!

ANS:: Replace a showerhead

Stepping into that hot shower every morning might help you wake up.

But even more eye-opening is this fact:

You could get the same shower without draining so much from your environment

or adding so much from your environment

or adding more carbon dioxide to the air.

Like most homes in INDIA, yours probably uses over 94,000 gallons of water each year.

You could reduce that significantly by simply changing your showerhead.

SO WHAT? --Why Care?“If I take long shower!”

LIFE STORY OF BREAD & MILK

• How producing of Bread & Milk

affects our world.

• Have you ever thought about what

goes into a bread and how milk

is produced.

• If you look a little closer you will

see it’s a lot more than just a hot

fresh bread – and we’re not talking about the butter on top,

either.

• Complete story of Bread & Milk’s life from the feedlot to

the fridge to the fast-food counter.

Quick Facts AboutBREAD & MILK

• Indians eat more then 72 billion

– that’s right, BILLION slices of bread / Roti every.

• An average Indian drinks 25 gallons of milk every year; imagine how much milk we need in India for our entire population.

• It takes an average of 600 gallons of water to make quarter-pound of bread.

• Think about it as 2,400 one-quart bottles of water, or enough to fill 11 bathtubs, for just one loaf of bread.

• A cow had to eat over 1.3 pounds of grain to produce that quarter-pound of milk.

THE SACRED COW

• That means a single cow

could keep you drinking glass

of milk every day for five years.

• But to grow that cow, you have to grow a

lot of grain..

THE GRAIN

• Growing that grain isn’t doing

any favors for you or the environment.

• It takes lots of energy (fossil

fuels, such as gas and oil)

to plant and harvest the grain.

• Besides plenty of energy and water, it also takes fertilizers and pesticides to keep the grain growing and healthy. And all those chemicals pollute the air, water, and land.

THE LAND

• And a lot more land is needed

to grow the grass that cows

feed on before they get the

grain that fattens them up.

• Wherever there’s grass and grain and

lots of cows, there isn’t much room for

anything else-like birds, badgers,

bison,…other kinds of wildlife.

THE SOIL

• Erosion happens when rain washes soil off

the land and into places it shouldn’t be

– like streams, rivers, and lakes.

• Growing grain can cause erosion. And so

can overgrazing, when too many cows eat

too much grass and trample bare ground.

• Erosion washes away 1.2 pounds of soil.

• And that soil is gone forever, causing big trouble somewhere downstream

• Erosion can also happen when people clear forest to make more grazing land for cows. The soil washes away more quickly because the trees aren’t there to hold it in place.

THE WATER

• All the water is enough to fill 11 bathtubs.

Why do much water?

Cows drink it.

Grain needs it to grow.

Factories even need water to produce

bread.

And then there’s water pollution from all the cow

manure that washes into streams and soaks into

the ground.

Take ACTION!• ANS:: Well, you’re part of this

process, too--through your eating

and buying decisions.

Eat one less sandwich per

week and substitute it by a fruit

and over the course of a year,

you save over 40,000 gallons of

water and prevent 300 pounds of

carbon dioxide from being

released into the air.

SO WHAT? --Why Care?“If I waste some bread and Milk!”

LIFE STORY A LIGHT BULB

• How flipping a switch affects our world –―lighting things up‖, from your room to the inside of your fridge

• You flip a switch and a light goes on. Simple, right? Not really.

• There’s a lot more to turning on the light than you may think.

BASIC Facts AboutBULB

• The electricity flows through the

bulb from wires hidden behind

the walls of your home.

• The switch closes a loop that

allows the electricity to circle the

bulb and heat up a filament,

which gives off the light.

THE WIRES

• The wires continue out to the

street, down the block, across

town, and all the way back to a

power plant.

• It’s a huge, interconnected

network.

THE POWER PLANT

• The hot water becomes steam, the steam turns turbines ( Similar to huge fans), and the turbines spin magnets surrounded by wires.

• The magnetic field created by this spinning creates a current in the wires, which provides the electricity we use.

• Other power plants use nuclear reactions to generate the heat they need or wind or water power to turn the turbines

THE COAL

• Many tons of coal are used to make electricity.

• Coal is a fossil fuel that forms over millions of years from plant remains that have been hardened and changed by time, heat and pressure.

• And getting all that coal takes an awful lot of mining.

THE COAL MINE

• Miners often go deep under

ground to dig coal.

• Other miners take coal from

closer to the surface, using

huge machinery to strip away rock

and soil.

• Unfortunately, all that tearing away and digging

leaves massive piles of waste that often end up

being dumped into valleys, where they can

seriously harm streams and the life found in them.

THE WATER

• All the water is enough to fill 11 bathtubs.

Why do much water?

Cows drink it.

Grain needs it to grow.

Factories even need water to produce

bread.

And then there’s water pollution from all the cow

manure that washes into streams and soaks into

the ground.

Take ACTION!ANS:: Just one compact

fluorescent light build,

or CFL or tube light,

can save your parents

25 bucks on their

electricity bill.

More importantly, you can

prevent 1,572 pounds of

carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming.

SO WHAT? --Why Care?“How one light

bulb can make a difference!”

Take ACTION!

Therefore replace one standard light

bulb with a compact fluorescent light

bulb (CFL).

• By doing this, you prevent the release

of about 260 pounds of carbon

dioxide each year!

These bulbs are cooler than regular bulbs -not only in

appearances, but in temperature too.

The surface of a CFL bulb is warm, but won’t burn you

like regular bulbs.

LIFE STORY A PAPER

• In a min you will find out about how making a paper affects our world in many ways.

• From pulp mill to your Notebook.

• Paper is a huge part of your everyday life. You use it in the books and magazines you rad, the homework you do, and the notes you pass in class.

BASIC Facts About Paper

• The average urban Indian resident uses about 750 pounds of paper a year.

• That means three people use more than a ton.

• To make that ton of paper:– 24 trees are cut down

– 55,000 gallons of water are used

– 60 pounds of pollution are emitted

• When thrown out, a ton of paper uses three cubic yards of landfill space-that’s about the size of a compact car.

• The amount of electricity that goes into producing one tons of paper would power your house for two months.

THE CHOPPING AND CHIPPING

• The woods used to make paper

is taken either from virgin forests

or ―tree plantations‖ (which are

nothing like real forests).

• Once a tree us cut, it is sent to a

paper mill where it goes through

a chipper, which chews it up into

little pieces.

COOKING AND BLEACHING

• The digester boils the chip in

water and chemicals.

• This softens the wood into

slushy, sloppy pulp, which is

bleached with more chemicals.

WATER DOWN THE DRAIN

• This mixture is sprayed onto a fast-

moving mesh screen and is then

flattened and dried by another machine.

• The water that drains out is treated to

remove chemicals, but the process does

not completely clean the water.

• Some of the chemicals still make their

way into lakes and rivers.

CUTTING AND SHIPPING

• These rolls of paper are then put

through another machine that

can cut them into individual

sheets for our use.

• Once bundled, the paper is

shipped by truck and train to the

warehouses and stores where it

can be sold.

RECYCLE RECYCLE RECYCLE

• Paper makes up to 30% to 40% of what’s found in landfills.

• Another option-recycling the paper you use so it can come back in a fresh form-helps save trees, energy, and water.

• So does buying recycled paper in school or office supply stores. ( You’ll know it by recycle symbol.)

Take ACTION!

• ANS:: Please Buy Recycled Paper

as making paper uses a lot of

trees, water, and energy.

If even one in ten students bought

recycled notebook this year, they

would save 60,000 tress and more

than 25 million gallons of water.

SO WHAT? --Why Care?“After all it is just a paper”.

GLOBAL IMPACT

PAPER:

If 23802 recycled Paper products Bought:

– 251,050 gallons of water saved

– 586,56 tress saved

– 51,290 pounds of CO2 prevented

BREAD & MILK:

If 20936 sandwich skipped

– 16,357,860 gallons of water saved

– 120,801 pounds of CO2 prevented.

BULB:

If 7019 light bulbs replaced

– 1,838,978 pounds of CO2 prevented.

WATER:

If 2930 Showerheads replaced

– 12,502,301 gallons of water saved

– 735,430 pounds of CO2 prevented.

So What is the answer? “What

Can I Do to Help our

ENVIRONMENT”

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REMEMBER ALWAYS RECYCLE

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