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  1. HAPPY EARTH DAY! See our two minute Earth Day video Rethink | Sustainability. Watch at www.bioengineering.com/earthday
  2. Tomorrow is Earth Day! Every dollar you spend, from shopping to public projects, can transact sustainability. #earthday #sustainability
  3. 3 Days to Earth Day! Our Planet is a finite system demanding healthy ecosystems, renewable energy & recycled materials. #sustainability
  4. 4 Days to Earth Day! Sustainability is using or harvesting resources without depleting or permanently damaging them #earthday#sustainability
  5. 5 Days to Earth Day! Ecosystem: Landforms, climate, plants, and animals interacting together as a functional unit. #earthday #sustainability
  6. 6 Days to Earth Day! Get the EPA's daily environmental tip; instructions at www.epa.gov/earthday/widgets/index.htm #earthday#sustainability
  7. 7 Days to Earth Day! In U.S. power generation is the #1 contributor to air pollution; sulfur dioxide is the #1 pollutant. #earthday
  8. 8 Days to Earth Day! In 2009, Wind farms generated just 1.7% of US electricity, enough to power 6.6 million homes. #earthday #sustainability
  9. 9 Days to Earth Day! In 2008, U.S. wind power capacity became the largest in the world, followed by Germany, then Spain. #earthday
  10. 10 Days to Earth Day! In 2009, 61% of Europe's newly created energy capacity came from renewable sources, like wind.
  11. 11 Days to Earth Day! 90% of earthquakes take place in the Pacific Seismec Belt; when offshore, they cause a tsunami.
  12. 12 Days to Go! Due to plastic in the Pacific Gyre,The Great Garbage Patch, thought as big as Texas, has 3.5 million tons of floating trash.
  13. 13 Days to Earth Day! We buy 50+ bottles of water each year and only about 20% get recycled. The rest end up in landfills and the oceans.
  14. 14 Days to Earth Day! High numbers of Animal species on ESA list: 22 turtles, 9 wolves, 8 whales, 7 tortoises and 5 bears.
  15. 15 Days to Earth Day! 34 of 1,300 US species protected under the Endangered Species Act have come off the list since 1973.
  16. 16 Days to Earth Day! Over 500 species have become extinct in North America since the Pilgrims landed in 1620.
  17. 17 Days to Earth Day! 1279 federal Superfund sites (contaminated land) need cleanup; see New Bedford Harbor @ www.bioengineering.com
  18. 18 Days to Earth Day! US consumes 456 gallons of gasoline/capita/year which is 138.7 billion gallons of gasoline/year.
  19. 19 Days to Earth Day! Earth has 8 Ecozones where barriers (i.e.oceans) isolated the evolution of plants and animals.
  20. 20 Days to Earth Day! Monaco is most densely populated country @ 41,951 people per sq/mile; Mongolia is least @ 4.1 people per sq/mile.