PROVOCATIVE INFORMATION

We've lost half of the nation's wetlands, 99 percent of native prairie, and 95 percent of old-growth forests. Nearly half of our arable land has been paved.

American countryside is being transformed by sprawl at the rate of 365 acres per hour.

On average, nearly 2.3 million acres of rural land are converted to developed uses each year.

The average person can recognize 1,000 corporate logos but can’t recognize ten plants and animals native to his or her local ground.

Before a child enters first grade science class…[s/he] will have soaked in thirty thousand advertisements. The time our teenagers spend absorbing ads is more than their total stay in high school.

More than 80 percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last fifty years.