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Pop Quiz: Why People Like Prius
Let's be honest: part of the success of the Toyota Prius is the fact that it has come to symbolize efficient, green, responsible
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Pop Quiz: The Guy Behind Gaia
Dr. Lovelock first came up with the Gaia hypothesis, which "proposes that living and nonliving parts of the earth are a complex interacting
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Pop Quiz: World's Tallest Tree
Click Here for PollOnline Surveys | Online Polls | Email MarketingView MicroPollAnswer: C) 379.1 feet Redwood trees are the tallest in the world, routinely reaching 300 feet into the air. The tallest Redwood ever discovered, named 'Hyperion',
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Pop Quiz: Global Warming Is A Killer
A study by the World Heath Organization found that, in 2001, 150,00 deaths were attributable to global warming. For instance, they estimated that
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Pop Quiz: Global Average Temperature
The importance of the global average temperature is that it has been steadily increasing as greenhouse gas concentrations have increased.
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Pop Quiz: The Things We Do For...Gas
The reason why the Netherlands pays around $6.50 US dollars per gallon of gasoline, while Venezuela only pays $.12, -- and the main factor
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Pop Quiz: The White House, A GREEN House?
In 1979 Jimmy Carter had a solar water heater installed on the White House roof. It was a move designed to support Carter's solar institute, which
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Pop Quiz: How Many Poor Are There?
Click Here for PollOnline Surveys | Online Poll | Email MarketingView MicroPollAnswer: C) Despite rising incomes in countries such as China and India, poverty remains one of today's most pervasive global issues. Nearly one-half of the global population
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Pop Quiz: Is That Coffee Really From Java
According to Wikipedia, "Brazil remains the largest coffee exporting nation, but in recent years Vietnam has become a major producer of robusta beans.
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Pop Quiz: Nuclear Power in the USA
There are 104 nuclear power plants operating in the United States, accounting for roughly 20% of the nation's electricity supply. In contrast, nuclear power
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Pop Quiz: How Fresh Is Your Water?
While 75% of the Earth's surface is covered by water, only 2.5% of that water is fresh water. However, 3/4 of that fresh water is locked up in glaciers and
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Pop Quiz: Federal Bike Investigation
4.1% of the roughly 7,000,000 thefts reported every year by the FBI are bicycle thefts. However, this may not tell the full story, given that the
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Pop Quiz: Per Person Power
It turns out that not only is Rhode Island the smallest state in the nation, it also has the lowest per-capita energy consumption. This is due to
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Pop Quiz: Calories in Per Calories Out
In many ways, our present agricultural system is structured such that we are, in effect, eating oil. According to Michael Pollan, it takes 10 calories of
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Pop Quiz: Climbing Cost of Chow
Rising energy costs, increased use of crops for biofuels instead of food, and climactic changes have all contributed to a 40% rise in global food price since
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Pop Quiz: How Much Poop Does A Worm Poop?
Earthworms basically do three things with their time: eat, poop and have sex. As a result, earthworms are excellent for
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Pop Quiz: How Many Bike Commuters?
Despite high gas prices and increasing awareness of climate change and other environmental and social problems caused, in part, by the the internal combustion
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Pop Quiz: Hot, Wet Metal
Not only does it take a lot of energy to make electricity, steel and even hamburgers, a lot of water is also needed to produce, process, transport and
