Human footprint : everything you will eat, use, wear, buy, and throw out in your lifetime

Title
: 
Human footprint : everything you will eat, use, wear, buy, and throw out in your lifetime

Personal Author EPSB
: 
Ellen, Kirk

Summary
: 
"What's your human footprint? Well, it's 13,056 pints of milk; 28,433 showers; 12,888 oranges; 14,518 candy bars; 43,371 cans of soda; and $52,972 worth of clothes, all in one lifetime. And that's just a fraction of the mountain of stuff you'll consume. Think of that times six billion other footprints. Makes you want to step more lightly on the Earth!"--P. [4] of cover.

Other Title
: 
National Geographic kids human footprint
 
Title appears on item as: National Geographic Kids Human footprint

Year Published
: 
2010

Series
: 
National Geographic kids

Physical Description
: 
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Note
: 
"The book is based on the Preserve our Planet National Geographic Channel presentation, Human footprint"--P. 32.

Reading Grade level
: 
6.8.

Age Interest level
: 
Ages: 008-012.

Grade Interest level
: 
4-7

Subject
: 
Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects.
 
Population -- Environmental aspects.
 
Lifestyles -- Social aspects -- United States.
 
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
 
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
 
Human ecology.
 
Sustainable living.
 
Human influence on nature.

Geographic Term
: 
Human ecology.

Summary
: 
"What's your human footprint? Well, it's 13,056 pints of milk; 28,433 showers; 12,888 oranges; 14,518 candy bars; 43,371 cans of soda; and $52,972 worth of clothes, all in one lifetime. And that's just a fraction of the mountain of stuff you'll consume. Think of that times six billion other footprints. Makes you want to step more lightly on the Earth!"--P. [4] of cover.

ISBN
: 
9781426306341
 
9781426307676

Publisher
: 
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010.


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