{"id":431,"date":"2009-02-02T01:35:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T05:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2018-09-22T06:31:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T10:31:56","slug":"3-jaw-dropping-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/3-jaw-dropping-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaw-Dropping Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For inspiration to help develop an idea for a semester long project, my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmarcschmidt.com\/NYU2009\">Mainstreaming Information<\/a> class was asked to present three examples of \u201cjaw-dropping\u201d statistics that highlight a particularly surprising situation or trend. I think much can be said about the following shocking data that affect our planet both environmentally and socially:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainabilityissexy.com\/facts.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Basic Problem with Coffee Cups<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/wastetable.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-451\" title=\"wastetable\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/wastetable-300x146.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<li>Paper cup use in 2006 accounted for 4 billion gallons of water wasted, 6.5 million trees cut down, and 4,884 billion BTU\u2019s of energy used.<\/li>\n<li>At the University of Washington, a college of roughly 42 thousand students, the Housing and Food Services Department estimates that 5000 paper coffee cups are thrown away every school day.<\/li>\n<li>Starbucks found that 1.9 billion cups were used by Starbucks in 2000.  In 2006, Starbucks reported that this figure had grown to 2.3 billion cups for use at their stores.<\/li>\n<li>Starbucks has begun to use cups made from 10% post-consumer materials, while the remaining 90% of the cup is composed of new paper releases methane, a greenhouse gas with 23 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/changes1611\/sins22lies2.html\">How often do we lie to others?<\/a><\/p>\n<li>Most people lie to others once or twice a day and deceive about 30 people per week. The average is 7 times per hour if you count all the times people lie to themselves.<\/li>\n<li>75% of all lies are for admittedly selfish purposes with 25% told for allegedly unselfish purposes.<\/li>\n<li>35 percent of resumes contain lies<\/li>\n<li>We lie in 30 to 38% of all our interactions<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phoneraiser.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/10\/conserve-water-in-your-shower\">How much shower water does one person consume in a week?<\/a><\/p>\n<li>One person can use almost 11,000 gallons a year if they take a 15 minute shower every day<\/li>\n<li>You can save water by simply reducing the water flow from your hot or cold water faucets to regulate temperature instead of increasing the flow<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For inspiration to help develop an idea for a semester long project, my\u00a0Mainstreaming Information class was asked to present three examples of \u201cjaw-dropping\u201d statistics that highlight a particularly surprising situation or trend. I think much can be said about the following shocking data that affect our planet both environmentally and socially: The Basic Problem with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visualizations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}