January 4, 2010

What is your immediate thought?

200 trees a minute are cut down in the Amazon alone. That is 7 football fields a minute.

January 5, 2010

How could you change this outcome?

The U.S. has less than 4% of its forests left.

January 6, 2010

How does this impact your life?

U.S. industry “admits” to 4 billion pounds of toxic pollution released per year (likely far more).

January 7, 2010

How does this impact your life?

U.S. industry “admits” to 4 billion pounds of toxic pollution released per year (likely more).

January 8, 2010

Predict what this fact will say in 15 years.

200,000 people a day are moving to cities from environments that no longer support them.

January 11, 2010

What is your immediate thought?

People in the U.S. spend 3 to 4 times as much money shopping as Europeans do.

January 12, 2010

How could you change this outcome?

99% of all those things we buy are not in use after 6 months.

January 13, 2010

How does this impact your life?

For every one garbage can you put out at the curb, 70 cans were filled by all the processes needed in order to make it.

January 14, 2010

How does this impact your life?

For every one garbage can you put out at the curb, 70 cans were filled by all the processes needed in order to make it.

January 15, 2010

Predict what this fact will say in 15 years.

We see more ads in one year than people 50 years ago saw in a lifetime. About 3,000 ads a day!!

January 19, 2010

How could you change this outcome?

For every one garbage can you put out at the curb, 70 cans were filled by all the processes needed in order to make it.

January 20, 2010

How does this impact your life?

The U.S. burns 10,000 gallons of gasoline a second.

January 21, 2010

How does this impact your life?

The U.S. burns 10,000 gallons of gasoline a second.

January 22, 2010

Predict what this fact will say in 15 years.

Americans now use automobiles for more than 90% of their daily trips. An average person travels more than 9,000 miles a year by car, compared with less than 4,000 miles four decades ago. The average driver spends 443 hours a year behind the wheel.

January 25, 2010

What is your immediate thought?

An F16 uses more fuel in one hour than average car owner uses in 2 years.

January 26, 2010

How could you change this outcome?

We burn 1.2 million more barrels of gasoline per day because SUVs and light trucks are less efficient than cars.

January 27, 2010

How does this impact your life?

The average stop sign in the U.S. causes an average of 20 tons of carbon dioxide to be added to the atmosphere yearly.

January 28, 2010

How does this impact your life?

The average stop sign in the U.S. causes an average of 20 tons of carbon dioxide to be added to the atmosphere yearly.

January 29, 2010

Predict what this fact will say in 15 years.

Children who live near streets traveled by more than 20,000 cars a day are six times more likely to develop cancer than those who live in quieter neighborhoods, where local traffic is less than 500 vehicles per day.

February 1, 2010

What is your immediate thought?

Approximately 8-12 million companion animals enter animal shelters nationwide every year and approximately 5-9 million are euthanized (61% of dogs and 75% of cats)

February 2, 2010

How could you change this outcome?

For every human born in the United States, 7 puppies and kittens are born. 1 female cat and her offspring can produce 420,000 cats in 7 years. 1 female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in 6 years.

February 3, 2010

How does this impact your life?

Less than 2% of cats and only 15-20% of dogs are ever returned to their owners once they are lost. Most of the statistics include the ones that are identified by tags, tattoos or microchips.

February 4, 2010

How does this impact your life?

Less than 2% of cats and only 15-20% of dogs are ever returned to their owners once they are lost. Most of the statistics include the ones that are identified by tags, tattoos or microchips.

February 5, 2010

Predict what this fact will say in 15 years.

About 60% of all households in the United States have a pet. About 60 million dogs and about 75 million cats.

February 6, 2010

What is your immediate thought?

It is impossible to determine how many stray dogs and cats live in the United States; estimates for cats alone range up to 70 million.

February 9, 2010 How could you change this outcome?

The real price of fur must be measured in deaths--not dollars.

To make one fur coat you must kill at least fifty-five wild mink, thirty-five ranched mink, forty sables, eleven lynx, eighteen red foxes, eleven silver foxes, one hundred chinchillas, thirty-six rabbits, nine beavers, thirty muskrats, fifteen bobcats, twenty-five skunks, fourteen otters, one hundred twenty-five ermines, thirty possums, one hundred squirrels, or twenty-seven raccoons.

February 10, 2010

How does this impact your life?

It costs approximately $100 to capture, house, feed and eventually kill each stray animal.

February 11, 2010

How does this impact your life?

It costs approximately $100 to capture, house, feed and eventually kill each stray animal.

February 16, 2010

How could you change this outcome? There is a thriving dog- and cat-fur industry in

Asia. Most of this fur is falsely labeled as “rabbit fur” or simply not labeled at all. Dog and cat skin is made into fur coats, fur figurines, and leather shoes, which are sold to unsuspecting consumers in America.

Without expensive DNA tests, it is virtually impossible to know exactly what kind of animal you are wearing if you choose to buy fur.

February 17, 2010

How does this impact your life?

A cow give in her lifetime enough milk to fill 200,000 glasses and gives 18,000 pounds of milk every year.

February 18, 2010

How does this impact your life?

A cow give in her lifetime enough milk to fill 200,000 glasses and gives 18,000 pounds of milk every year.

February 19, 2010

Predict what this fact will say in 15 years.

There are at least 98,990,000 cows in the United States.