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		<title>Quick Facts</title>
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If just 25% of US families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 billion bags a year.
One ton of carbon dioxide that is released in the air can be prevented by replacing every 75 watt light bulbs with energy efficient bulbs. Deserts are advancing and taking over the land. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ektitli.wordpress.com&blog=3196231&post=124&subd=ektitli&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ektitli.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/quick-facts/</link>
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		<title>The Great Pacific Garbage Patch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is estimated to be twice the size of Texas.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ektitli.wordpress.com&blog=3196231&post=121&subd=ektitli&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ektitli.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/</link>
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		<title>India : a hot spot for Renewable Energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[India is fast emerging as a frontrunner in terms of harnessing renewable energy resources. It has been ranked No.1, on par with the US, in annual solar power generation, while it claims the fifth spot in wind power generation. India also makes it to a credible fourth position for scope, space and facilities allotted for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ektitli.wordpress.com&blog=3196231&post=115&subd=ektitli&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ektitli.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/india-a-hot-spot-for-renewable-energy/</link>
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		<title>amount of energy saved using various recycled metals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recycling scrap metal reduces greenhouse gas emissions and uses less energy than making metal from virgin ore. The amount of energy saved using various recycled metals compared to virgin ore is up to:
&#8211; 92 percent for aluminum
&#8211; 90 percent for copper
&#8211; 56 percent for steel
Source
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		<title>How much energy is saved by recycling?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The amount of lost energy from throwing away recyclable commodities such as aluminum cans and newspapers is equivalent to the annual output of 15 power plants. The energy savings applies to all recycling sectors:

Aluminum. Recycling of aluminum cans saves 95% of the energy required to make the same amount of aluminum from its virgin source. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ektitli.wordpress.com&blog=3196231&post=112&subd=ektitli&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Days &#8211; II</title>
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Seattle economist Jeffrey Morris estimated that manufacturing one ton of office and computer paper with recycled paper stock can save nearly 3,000 kilowatt hours over the same ton of paper made with virgin wood products.
A ton of soda cans made with recycled aluminum saves an amazing 21,000 kilowatt hours by reducing the virgin bauxite (bozite) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ektitli.wordpress.com&blog=3196231&post=110&subd=ektitli&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ektitli.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/extreme-days-ii/</link>
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		<title>Extreme Days I</title>
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Image by ocean.flynn via Flickr




UK plans to generate one third of electricity from renewables by 2020 [+]
India: 16% of humanity but less than 3% of global fresh water resources. [+]
The Rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) increases a child&#8217;s chance of surviving leukemia by 10 to 95%. But this plant is increasingly threatened for a host of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ektitli.wordpress.com&blog=3196231&post=85&subd=ektitli&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ektitli.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/extreme-days-i/</link>
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Image by kaneda99 via Flickr



the energy sector contributed 61% of total emissions in India, pegged India&#8217;s per capita emissions at only one-twentieth of the United States and about one-tenth of western Europe and Japan.
source: http://su.pr/4TiMqg
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A separate government report said India&#8217;s forests are absorbing about 11.25 % of the country&#8217;s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) every year at 1994 levels &#8211; or about 24 billion tonnes of CO2 -a potential market worth $120b
source: http://su.pr/4TiMqg


Posted in Green Facts Tagged: Carbon Cycle, Carbon dioxide, Environment, Greenhouse gas, India   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ektitli.wordpress.com&blog=3196231&post=79&subd=ektitli&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://ektitli.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/79/</link>
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		<title>Power To Change!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HP estimates that 100,000 users shutting down their work computers at the end of each day would be the equivalent of eliminating about 105 cars from the road each day.
Source : HP
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		<link>http://ektitli.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/power-to-change/</link>
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