Environmental+Protection+Interesting+Facts

//Interesting Facts//


 * //Captain Cook's ship, HMS Endeavor, started out as a coal transporter befobeing converted for exploration.//
 * //Each year, Australians use 6.9 billions plastic shopping bags. Tied together, this number of plastic bags would strretch around the world 37 times!//
 * //About 8000 years ago there were only 5 million people on the planet, less than the population of NSW. Today there are 6.9 billion, and it increases by 200,000 every day.//
 * //If only its energy could be captured, the sun could meet global energy needs for a year with just one hour of sunlight//
 * //To let people////know about earth hour activity that your school or community is organising, or your ideas for helping the planet after March 26th to go to the Earth hour website: [|www.earthhour.org]//