Japan’s CO2 emissions per GDP are among the lowest of industrial countries at .24kg CO2/US$ (IAEA)- Hybrid car sales amount to well under a million cars a year, or less than 1% of world demand. J.P. Morgan analysts forecast that hybrids will reach 13% of global automobile sales in 2020. (Fortune Magazine, Special Advertising Section on Japan)
- The average person loses 13 pounds their first year of commuting by bike. http://bcycle.com/
- A four-mile bicycle trip keeps about 15 pounds of pollutants out of the air we breathe. http://bcycle.com/
- Nuclear energy experts count 436 operating nuclear power stations around the world, producing eight percent of the world’s electricity and around 20% of America’s. To power them, producer countries ship about 65,000 tons of uranium around the world each year. Top uranium producer countries in 2008 (in metirc tons): Canada 9,000 tons; Kazakhstan 8,500; Australia 8,400; Namibia 4,400; Russia 3,500 (DLC)
- Justin Manger
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