2. 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.
3. WATER TRIVIA
Can you guess…?
Only ___% of Earth’s water is fresh water. ___% of the water on Earth is salt water.
4. WATER TRIVIA
Can you guess…?
Only 3% of Earth’s water is fresh water. 97% of the water on Earth is salt water.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. WATER TRIVIA
Can you guess…?
A running toilet can waste up to _____ gallons of water per day.
12. WATER TRIVIA
Can you guess…?
A running toilet can waste up to 200 gallons of water per day.
13. 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.
14. 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
15. • 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…
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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!
23. The purpose is to show global support
for the protection of our environment.
Earth Day is celebrated worldwide in
over 192 countries.
25. In the late 1960’s and into 1970, most
Americans paid little attention to the damage
being done to our environment.
26. 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.
27. Many industries paid little attention
to the damage they were doing to
the environment.
28. Earth Day 1970 was organized to promote awareness for
our environment, and to encourage all people to take
better care of the environment.
29. 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.
30. Thousands of schools,
colleges and universities
participated in the first
Earth Day. The
participants led peaceful
demonstrations in favor
of environmental
reform.
37. 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.
38. In 1990 Earth Day
went global,
mobilizing 200
million people in 141
countries
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. By April 22, 2012,
one billion
actions had
been recorded
by the people of
the world.
42. The Earth Day
Network has now set
as its goal, 2 billion
“acts of green.”
You can record your
actions here:
http://act.earthday.or
g/index.html
