Saturday, July 24, 2010

The Week In Green Numbers

3 billion gallons

- amount of fresh water which is to be exported from Alaska to India each year #

$1 billion

- profit made by Goldman Sachs by betting on the price of food #

377,000 km2

- size of an algae bloom in the Baltic Sea #

5,000 - 6,000 km2

- expected size of Amazon deforestation in the last year, down dramatically #

£29 million

- money that the SDC said they could save the UK government by reducing emissions. Instead, the government axed the SDC and saved only £4 million #

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