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

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

Ellen, Kirk

Sommaire
"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.

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

Date de publication comme intervalle
2010

National Geographic kids

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

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

Terme de vedette-matière
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.

Terme géographique
Human ecology.

Résumé
"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.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9781426306341
 
9781426307676

Informations de publication
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010.


BibliothèqueNuméro de rayonType de documentCode à barres du documentStatut
Delwood304 KIRBook30194000182639Non-Fiction