The following facts come from a pamphlet sent to me by a relative who visited the construction site and memorial pool at the World Trade Center in New York City. The 1 World Trade Center (WTC) building is expected to reach it full height soon, whereupon its 408-foot (124 m) radio antenna will be installed [...]
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Five Friday Facts: The New World Trade Center
May 18th, 2012 
Justin Manger Five Friday Facts: Colleges Saving Energy
May 11th, 2012 Eric Wilson A recent three week competition wrapped up among colleges that saved a bit of money, water, and energy. The 2012 Campus Conservation Nationals (CCN) had approximately one-quarter of a million students participating at 150 colleges and universities across the country. Today’s Five Friday Facts tallies the total savings from their efforts: 1,739,046 kilowatt-hours of electricity [...]
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Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Energy, Water Conservation 
No Comments »Five Friday Facts: U.S. Navy as Energy Innovator
May 4th, 2012 Justin Manger Here is an interesting time line from a pamphlet from the Esri Federal GIS Conference on the Navy’s evolution with energy, including last year’s large purchase of biofuels. 1774: USS Alfred, Navy’s first battleship, powered by wind and sails. 1955: USS Nautilus, first nuclear submarine 2009: First Navy aircraft engine tested on biofuel blend 2010: [...]
Five Friday Facts: Most Polluted Air in the U.S.
April 27th, 2012 Justin Manger 41% of Americans, or 127 million people, live in areas with air that is often unhealthy to breath. This is according to the American Lung Association, which just released its annual ‘State of the Air’ report. The top 5 most polluted cities, as determined by year-round pollution, are in California. See top ten list below. [...]
Posted in Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger Tags: California, Carbon Dioxide, Environment, Pollution No Comments »Double Set of Five Friday Facts: Natural Gas Leads the Pack
April 13th, 2012 Eric Wilson When looking at which energy source provides the most energy to the American economy, natural gas topped the charts for 2010 (the most recent year for which data was fully available). Today’s set of facts looks at the breakdown of the various sources and follows up last week’s Five Friday Facts which looked at the [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Renewable Energy Tags: Biomass, Coal, Energy, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Oil Consumption, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Technology and US Fuel
April 6th, 2012 Justin Manger The incredible drop in imported liquid fuels such as oil over the last 6 years is due in large part to technological breakthroughs in drilling and recovery techniques that has let the U.S. capture more of its natural (though non-renewable) resources. The debates over the pros and cons to this trend of using advanced technology [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger Tags: Energy, Fracking, Natural Gas, Oil Consumption, Water No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Tour de Fat
March 30th, 2012 Eric Wilson Earlier this week, the 2012 Tour de Fat dates were released. Organized by sustainability heroes New Belgium Brewing, the Tour is a celebration of bicyclists. Here are this week’s Five Friday Facts based on the 2011 and upcoming 2012 festival. In 2011, Tour de Fat traveled to 13 cities, attracting a total of 69,550 festival [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Bicycles, Landfill, New Belgium Brewery, Washington DC, Waste No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Is Silence In Nature Possible Anymore?
March 23rd, 2012 2nd Green Revolution This week’s facts come from an interesting piece in the NY Times Magazine section that talks about researchers and ecologists catching sound in Alaska’s Denali Park. Worry that the constant hum of modern human life is negatively affecting natural habitats has led to several efforts to gather recordings of what nature sounds like without humans [...]
Posted in Behavior, Conservation, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Environment No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Bamboo
March 16th, 2012 Eric Wilson The following facts come from Delta Airlines’ March 2012 Sky magazine: 1,400: number of bamboo species growing throughout the world. $23 billion: projected global market for bamboo in 2012. 9.0: Earthquake magnitude withstood by some bamboo buildings. 33%: amount of world’s bamboo supply harvested by China. The U.S. is currently the largest importer of the [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Business, China, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Regenerative Economy No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Chevy Volt
March 9th, 2012 Eric Wilson With the positive and negative news surrounding the Chevy Volt this week, we wanted to present five facts about the vehicle. These facts come from the Chevy Volt’s website. Every Volt comes standard with a 120V portable charge cord that can plug into most common household outlets and will fully charge a Volt in about [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Transportation Tags: Battery, Chevy Volt, EPA, Plug-in Hybrid No Comments »
