Earth is amazing!

Our world is a beautiful place and it has sustained everything living on it for millions of years. Although our presence has
done much damage to it, we still have a chance to change it.

The wonderful thing that’s happening today is that people are becoming more aware of the needs of our environment
and are showing signs of willingness to make a change. When we talk of environment, it involves everything around us,
not just the weather. It includes all the animals, plants and the human beings living in this planet.

Here are some amazing environmental facts that you need to know about.

 27,000 trees are cut down each day so we can have Toilet Paper.
 Aluminum can be recycled continuously, as in forever. Recycling 1 aluminum can save enough energy to run our TVs
for at least 3 hours. 80 trillion aluminum cans are used by humans every year.
 American companies alone use enough Paper to encircle the Earth 3x! (It’s a good thing that businesses are moving
towards going paperless)
 We can save 75,000 trees if we recycled the paper used on the daily run of the New York Times alone.
 When you throw plastic bags and other plastic materials in the ocean, it kills as many as 1 million sea creatures
annually.
 A glass bottle made in our time will take more than 4,000 years to decompose.
 Only 1% of our planet’s water supply can be used. 97% is ocean water and 2% is frozen solid in the Arctic, for now.
 Our planet gains inhabitants numbering to 77 million people a year.
 An estimated 50,000 species inhabiting our tropical forests become extinct annually. That’s an average of 137 species
a day.
 Rainforests are cut down at a rate of 100 acres per minute.
 The world’s oldest trees are more than 4,600 years old.
 Landfills are composed of 35% packaging materials.

Trivia about water

 Earth’s surface is covered with 70.9% water, 29.1% land.
 Only about 3% of total earth water is drinkable, the other 97% water is salt water
 Water of the lakes, ponds, swamps, streams, rivers and all other surface water make only 0.3% of the earth’s
fresh water.
 68.7 % of the earth’s fresh water is frozen in glaciers.
 about 30% of earth’s fresh water is ground water
 Frozen water makes 1.7% of total earth’s water
 Water can dissolve many substances, more than any other liquids. Even sulfuric acid cannot dissolve as many
substances as water. ·
 More than 25% of bottled water actually comes from municipal tap water.
 A slight rise in sea level due to melting of ice caps can drown many countries around the world in the coaster
areas. A ten meter rise in sea level would flood 25% of the US population.·
 Our atmosphere contains more water as vapor than all the rivers in the world combined. If this vapor came
down as water it would be enough to cover the whole world with about an inch of water.
 Pure water would evaporate in Loveland, Colorado quicker than it would in New York. Water boils at a lower
temperature with lower pressure at higher altitudes than in a lower altitude high pressure area, just like your
pressure cooker can bring water to a higher temperature before boiling.
 The water consumption in the United States is about 400 billion gallons a day.
 Thermo-electric power generators in the USA use about 50% of the water supply.
 On average, the yearly consumption of water by the US residences is about 100,000 gallons.
 750,000 gallons of water flows through the Niagara Falls every second.
 On average, an American residence uses about 100 gallons of water per day.
 Most of the water in households goes down the toilet.
  Leaving the faucet open would make 2 gallons of water flow out every minute, so you could save four gallons
or more water while you brush your teeth in the morning if you do not leave the faucet running.
 A dripping faucet could leak about 3,000 gallons of water each year at one drip per second rate.
Trivia about continents
 Australia is the driest populated continent of the world. The average rainfall in Australia is about 469 mm
annually. The world average rainfall is 746 mm of rainfall.
 Antarctica is drier, with less rainfall per year, but it’s not as populated as Australia.
 The largest continent of the world is Asia, which covers one third of the earth’s surface. 60% of the world’s
population lives in Asia, and 30% of the land of the world is in Asia.
 Africa was called the Dark Continent because for a long time much was unknown about Africa.
 Antarctica is called the “Frozen continent.” it is also the driest, loneliest, emptiest and coldest continent of the
world, containing the geographic South Pole.
 The name America comes from an Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. North America contains United States of
America and Canada, which is the only continent that has every kind of climate and five time zones.
 Lake Superior is the largest fresh water lake in the world located between Canada and the United States.
Hope you had a great time reading about these trivia. Most of these you may have already known, but it doesn’t
hurt to brush up on your trivial knowledge. If you liked this post or any other post on our sites, please do not hesitate
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ACRONYMS

4Ps Pangtawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program CIDSS Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social
Services
ADB Asian Development Bank
CLUP Comprehensive Land Use Plan
ADMP Ancestral Domain Management Plan
CNC Certificate of Non-coverage
ADSDPP Ancestral Domain Sustainable Development and
Protection Plan CRMO Coastal Resources Management Office

ARMM Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao CSCCSD Civil Society Counterpart Council for Sustainable
Development
AVLDA Allah Valley Landscape Development Alliance
CSO Civil Society Organisation
CADT Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
CAR Cordillera Autonomous Region
CUPE Catch Per Unit Effort
CARP Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Programme
DA/BFAR Department of Agriculture/Bureau of Fisheries
CBFM Community-Based Forest Management
and Aquatic Resources
CBFMA Community-Based Forest Management
DENR Department of Environment and Natural
Agreements
Resources
CBD Community-based Distribution
DILG Department of Interior and Local Government
CCC Climate Change Commission
DOE Department of Energy
CCT Conditional Cash Transfer
DRR Disaster Risk Reduction
CENRO Community Environment and Natural Resources
DSWD Department of Social Welfare and Development
Officers
EA Environmental Assessment
CEPU Coastal Enforcement Protection Unit
ECA Environmentally Critical Area
CFSA Community Forest Stewardship Agreements
ECC Environmental Compliance Certificate
ECP Environmentally Critical Project
EE Environmental Education
EGD Environmental Guarantee Fund
EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
EIS Environment Impact Statement
EITI Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
ELAC Environmental Legal Assistance Centre
EMB Environmental Management Bureau
EMF Environmental Monitoring Fund
ESD Environment and Sustainable Development
ESDE Environment and Sustainable Development
Education
FARMC Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management
Council
FISH Fisheries Improved for Sustainable Harvest
FLUP Forest Land Use Plan
FPIC Free, Prior and Informed Consent
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GNP Gross National Product
GoP Government of the Philippines
HDI Human Development Index
HPI Human Poverty Index
IAP Indoor Air Pollution
ICM Integrated Coastal Management
IEC Information, Education and Communication
IIED International Institute for Environment and
Development
IP Indigenous People
IPRA Indigenous Peoples Rights Act
IRA Internal Revenue Allocation
ISF Integrated Social Forestry
ISSP Information Systems Strategic Plan
KGV Kitanglad Guard Volunteer
LA21 Local Agenda 21
LDC Local Development Council
LGU Local Government Unit
LIT Local Implementation Team
MDC Municipal Development Council
MDGs Millennium Development Goals
MGB Mines and Geosciences Bureau
MMT Multi-partite Monitoring Teams
MOA Memorandum of Agreement
MTPDP Medium Term Philippines Development Plan
NAMRIA National Mapping and Resource Information
Authority
NAPC National Anti-Poverty Commission
NCIP National Commission on Indigenous Peoples
NEDA National Economic Development Authority
NIPAS National Integrated Protected Areas System
NRM Natural Resource Management
NSCB Philippine National Statistical Coordination Board
OAP Outdoor Air Pollution
ODP Ozone Depletion Potential
PA Protected Area
PA21 Philippine Agenda 21
PACBRMA Protected Area Community Based Resource
Management Agreement
PAMB Protected Area Management Board
PAMP Protected Area Management Plan
PATLEPAM Philippine Association of Tertiary Level
Educational Institutions in Environmental
Protection and Management
PCSD Philippine Council for Sustainable Development
PDMS Poverty Database Monitoring System
PDP Philippines Development Plan

p/e Poverty/environment

PEI Poverty-Environment Initiative

PEPP Philippine Environment Partnership Program

PNNI Palawan NGO Network Inc.

PNOC Philippine National Oil Company

RUP Resource Use Permits

RZR Riparian Zone Re-vegetation

SAPA Special Use Agreement in Protected Areas

SB Sangguniang bayan

SDMP Social Development and Management Plan

SP Sangguniang panlungsod

UNCSD United Nations Conference on Sustainable

Development

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

UNEP United Nations Environment Programme

VSL Value of Statistical Life

WAVES Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem

Services

WB World Bank

WRDP Watershed Resources Development Project