Question: What is the single most effective step to lowering one’s carbon footprint and tackling climate change? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This is huge, but wow; who makes this decision on such a basis?
Tag: Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Plastic Bottles
Question: How many single-use plastic bottles are sold per minute? What percentage of them are unrecycled? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Those of us who care what life on this planet is going to be like when …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: The Distribution of the World’s Plastic Pollution
Question: Any piece of plastic, thrown anywhere into an ocean, can be found literally anywhere in the world’s five oceans in as little as 25 years. But are there any points on Earth where plastic waste tends to collect more than …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Big Oil and Climate Change
Question: How much does the oil industry spend annually on lobbying in an effort to impede the passing of laws that would mitigate climate change? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: The Solar Energy Industry
Question: The solar industry required 40 years to complete its one-millionth installation. How long did it take to double that to two million (a milestone achieved last month)? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Solar is a $17 …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Mining Industry
Question: What key change has the Trump administration’s EPA made in regulating the toxic waste coming from mining operations? What is the impact on the health and safety of the people living in Montana, California, Colorado, Oklahoma, and other states?
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Sea-Level Rise
Question: According to the National Academy of Sciences, which end of the antarctic (east or west), previously thought to be fairly stable, is now reported to be losing ice mass. This represents almost 40% of the total loss on the continent …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Losing the Amazon
Question: At what rate are we losing the Amazon rain forest, in terms of acres per hour?
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency
Question: What two things did the EPA call for elimination of earlier today?
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Germany Putting Spear Through Coal
Question: How many people from across Europe gathered near the Hambacher Forest in western Germany on Saturday to defend the area from the expansion of coal-fired energy and demand much more ambitious climate action? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy …
