Title Human footprint : everything you will eat, use, wear, buy, and throw out in your lifetime / by Ellen Kirk.

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Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department	J304.2 KIR	Check Shelf
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Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 304.2 KIRK	Check Shelf
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Description	32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Series	National Geographic kids
	National Geographic kids.
Note	"The book is based on the Preserve our Planet National Geographic Channel presentation, Human footprint"--Page 32.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	"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!"--Page 4 of cover.
Contents	Introduction -- Diapers -- Milk -- Bread -- Showers -- Toiletries -- Oranges -- Soda cans -- Clothes -- Car parts -- Plastic bottles -- Your human footprint.
Subject	Human ecology -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	Population -- Environmental aspects -- Juvenile literature.
	Lifestyles -- Social aspects -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	Human ecology -- Juvenile literature.
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
	Human ecology.
	Sustainable living.
	Human influence on nature.
	Human ecology.
Indexed Term	Human influence on nature
ISBN	9781426306341 (pbk.)
	1426306342 (pbk.)
	9781426307676 (pbk.)
	1426307675 (pbk.)
	9781448751181
	1448751187

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