Plants power kids —and the environment they love! Now it’s time to break down their plant powered potential and teach them how their craveable favorites can make an impact.
*The actual environmental impacts will vary depending on various factors, including the source of the food and other overall dietary choices. Click here for lifecycle assessment and see below for comparison facts.
Thousands are represented in K, millions are represented in M, billions are represented in B and trillions are represented in T.
Choosing veggie meals over meals with meat can result in some big time resource savings. To make those savings more relatable, we’ve equated them to things you might recognize, like a parking space, or Niagara Falls or the moon. To find out how we define these comparisons, see the links below.
The EPA defines an average American shower as 8 minutes long using 18 gallons of water.
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The U.S. Geological Survey claims most newer washing machines require around 25 gallons of water per load.
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The Blue Planet Network cites US water consumption at 176 gallons a day.
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SwimEx estimates traditional single lane lap pool volume at 8,900 to 10,000 gallons, or 9,450 gallons.
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Capitol.gov lists the volume of the Rotunda at 1.3 million cubic feet, or 9.7 million gallons.
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The American side of Niagara Falls dumps 150,000 gallons a second, or 540 million gallons an hour.
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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics claims that the average reported round-trip commute length for US drivers is 29 miles.
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Via a chart describing the mean orbital distance of the International Space Station over the last year, we found that the average ISS orbit distance to be 249 miles above the ground.
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The Texas Almanac measures the longest straight line from east to west across at Texas at 773 miles.
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Google Maps measures the distance from Los Angeles to NYC. as 2777 miles.
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The distance traveled in a trip "to the moon and back" is equal to twice the distance of the moon from the earth (238,800 miles), plus one half the circumference of the moon (6,784 miles) - 484,384 miles. This is because a space craft would generally rely on the gravity of the moon to sling shot it back to Earth.
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Universe Today makes mention of the longest and smallest distances from the Earth to Mars. We're using the closest expected approach with Mars in 2016, at 46.8 million miles.
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The Dept. of Tranportation lists standard parking space dimensions as 20 ft by 8 ft, or 160 square feet.
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The area of a regulation tennis court is 78 ft by 36 ft, or 2,808 square feet, including doubles lanes.
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The National Park Conservancy Association lists the National Mall and Memorial Parks at "over 43,560,000 square feet."
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New World states that Manhattan's land mass is measured to be 640,088,000 square feet.
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