3. 6
Things
I
Learned
SO
YOUR TELLING ME
PAPER COMES
FROM TREES….
4. Ecological Foot Print
•What the heck is an ecological
Footprint?
•If everyone lived like me I would
need 6.13 Earths?!
•I wasted 40% of the water I use
5. Invasive Species
•When KUDZU Attacks!!!
•Invasive Species are responsible for
40% of species in the US listed as
endangered and 2/3 of the fish
extinctions since 1900
•BEST way to Stop it is to Prevent it
from occurring
6. There is a Shortage in Water?
• Water is limited?! Don’t waste, it save
it!!
•In the US, 2/3 of the water we use
comes from surface water and the
remaining 1/3 is from groundwater.
•Average water used:
•Global -70% Agriculture
•US - 41% Cooling Power Plants
7. WIND POWER!
• 2nd Source of Energy
•By setting up Wind Power Supply in
ND, SD, KS,TX could supply all we
need for the US instead of building
Nuclear Power Plants.
•$.05 /kwh.
•No Serious health /environmental
impacts
•Employes 540 workers.
8. OIL!
• Avg. of Only 50yrs of Oil left
• 2002- 9million barrels (380
million gallons) of oil entered the
ocean.
•Cars use 2/3 of the oil in the US
•Where does the oil go?
9. Energy Wasters!
• 60% of energy used globally is
wasted!!!
•41% wasted due to 2nd Law of
Thermodynamics
• That light bulb puts out how
much? 5%?!
11. 6 Ways you can Help it~
~~~I CAN CHANGE~~
Change the Bulbs! Be conservative! If you
1 4 save the more you have
Save some money! for the future!
No one wants to clean Stop burning Gas
2 you up your trash! 5 for the Heck of it~
RECYCLE! Toxic Chemicals hurts!
Get Involved & Help EDUCATE the
3 Stop mountain top 6 IGNORANT, they
removal! don’t know unless you
tell them about it!