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  1. 159.113216 litres of water needed to make one cup of coffee - from growth to guzzling.
  2. 100 000 000 tones of plastic is produced every year. 10% of this ends up in the sea. #WATER http://bit.ly/ut6Se
  3. Nice, the Earth Divided project gets a mention on Irish Street Art Blog, http://bit.ly/irishstreetart-mention. Follow them @IrishStreetArt
  4. 20 times more food can be grown if harvested vertically #FOOD http://bit.ly/oYHpd
  5. 6312 miles, the distance asparagus takes from Peru to the UK at a cost of £2.19 to the consumer #FOOD http://bit.ly/the-origin-of-our-food
  6. 45 000 000 gallons of water per day is estimated to be lost in London's underground water pipes. http://bit.ly/4ALgR3
  7. 1/4 of C02 humanity produces is dissolved in the oceans creating carbonic acid http://bit.ly/eYdIs #WATER
  8. 1 000 000 to 1 is the odds of finding a perfect apple divided red and green http://bit.ly/split-personality #FOOD
  9. $10 is the cost to get bottled water from ground water to consumption for one person in USA. http://bit.ly/UO1jt #WATER
  10. 40% less energy is used to power new LED street lamps compared to HPS lamps http://bit.ly/4f4DCw #POWER
  11. 0.013ºC has caused trees around the world to colonise new territories from northern Siberia and south-east Asia #TREES
  12. 22 000 Flying Foxes are hunted each year in Malaysia. Estimates date extinction at 2015 #ANIMALS
  13. 60km is the distance upward lightning can travel. Possibility to harness this? http://bit.ly/xprBd #POWER
  14. 336kg of paper per person are used by Americans each year. Flipping over a scrap piece or sending an email saves forests (via @greenrobeen)
  15. 800 million people are malnourished, primarily because there isn't enough water to grow their food. http://bit.ly/1aINWK #WATER #FOOD
  16. 330 tonnes of food has been diverted from landfill by Belfast City Council since June 2008. The equivalent of 66 African elephants #FOOD
  17. 9.1 billion plastic bottles were disposed of in 2002. 360 million of them being recycled. (via @PlasticLess)
  18. 2 882 gallons of water are required to produce one hamburger. That, and the future is water http://bit.ly/water-is-future #WATER
  19. 94% of people near wind turbines favour them. 6% physically suffer as a result. http://bit.ly/Wind-Turbine-Syndrome #POWER
  20. £8 000 000 000 of household food is wasted in the UK a year. http://bit.ly/8bil-food-waste #FOOD