To put a commercial flight in perspective, a February 2007 New Scientist article titled “Green Sky Thinking” stated, “A single flight across the Atlantic can guzzle about 60,000 liters – more than an average motorist uses in 50 years of driving – generating about 140 tons of carbon dioxide, along with 750 kilograms of nitrous oxide2.” ( From the article "In the article The Not So Green Sky by Mike Szczupak")
Larry Carbone, a veterinarian at the University of California’s animal testing laboratory explains in his book,What animals want: expertise and advocacy in laboratory animal welfare policy, that animals do feel pain, but not in the same way as humans4. (from the article Not All Rats are Rats? by Heather Durkee )
According to a Sharon Beder in the article entitled, "Greenwashing/Greenscamming/Greenspeak", many organizations even pay extra money for public relations experts to make their companies seem more environmentally friendly than others.[1] (From the article When Some Go Green, Others Get Your Green! by Aaron Eskind )
Amazon use the "slash and "burn" method to clear the forest states MIT’s Project Amazonia. (Deforesting the World by Sara Morimoto )
A recent report from the World Wind Energy Association shows that wind power currently accounts for 1.5% of all energy around the World, and is a front being led by the United States (Oil Blows! Is Wind Power Earning the Attention it Deserves? by Thomas Hutley )
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