...Our Country's largest crop is lawn grass, covering 2.8 million acres (3 times the land to grow corn), requiring 800 million gallons of gas to mow.
..There are 1.5 billion cattle and 1.7 billion sheep on this planet generating methane gas. The warming effect of methane is 23 times as great as carbon (but it dissipates much faster). Think about it when you order your next steak!
...The amount of corn needed to provide enough ethanol to fill up one tank of an S.U.V. would be sufficient to feed a person for one year.
...It takes 15 million barrels of oil per year to make all of the plastic bottles in America, according to the Container Recycling Institute. That does not include transportation or disposal. There is no evidence that bottled water is any better than tap water. CPI estimates it takes 1000 years for plastic bottles to break down.
....The Rodale Institute has proved that organic practices, sometimes referred to as regenerative farming, can remove about 7,000 lbs. of CO2 from the air each year and sequester it in an acre of farmland.
