Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know

• ...that without the water cycle (pictured) cooling effect of evaporation, the greenhouse effect would lead to a surface temperature of 67 °C, and a warmer planet?
• ...that the Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, and standard of living for countries worldwide?
• ...that the Stora Istad wind park had to reduce its power output to below 10 MW in order to comply with Swedish law?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/1

• ...that the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development emerged from a landmark global agreement in June 1992?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/2

• ...that the United Nations agreed to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/3

• ...that the Human Development Index (HDI) is a comparative measure of life expectancy, literacy, education, and standard of living for countries worldwide?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/4

• ...that the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the largest source of multilateral development assistance in the world?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/5

• ...that the United Nations Brundtland Commission was created in 1983 to address the human environment, natural resources, economic and social development?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/6

• ...that the word "permaculture" is a portmanteau-style contraction of permanent agriculture as well as permanent culture?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/7

• ...that the three principal by-products of anaerobic digestion are biogas, acidogenic digestate and methanogenic digestate?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/8

• ...that most ecovillages aim for a population of 50-150 individuals because this is considered to be the maximum viable social network size?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/9

• ...that without the water cycle (pictured) cooling effect of evaporation, the greenhouse effect would lead to a surface temperature of 67 °C, and a warmer planet?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/10

• ...that global warming (pictured) of the average air temperature rose 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.3 ± 0.32 °F) during the past century?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/11

• ...that the waste hierarchy (pictured) refers to the "3 Rs" reduce, reuse and recycle, which classify waste management strategies according to their desirability?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/12

• ...that the world's largest wind turbines (pictured) deliver up to 6 MW, have an overall height of 186 m (610 ft) and a diameter of 114 m (374 ft).

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/13

• ...that the Fruit and Vegetable Hall at the Fremantle Markets (pictured) was rebuilt using recycled materials following a fire in 1992?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/14

• ...that the Stora Istad wind park had to reduce its power output to below 10 MW in order to comply with Swedish law?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/15

• ...that in 2004, the worldwide energy consumption of the human race was on average 15 TW (= 10¹² W) with 86.5% from burning fossil fuels?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/16

• ...that microcredit is offered by more than 7,000 microfinance institutions, serving some 16 million poor people, benefiting 500 million households in developing countries.

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/17

• ...that the Éolienne Bollée (picture) is a true turbine that is worked by the wind and, unlike modern wind turbines, has a stator and a rotor?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/18

• ...that according to market researcher Mintel on green marketing patterns, only 12% of the U.S. population can be identified as True Greens, consumers who seek out and regularly buy so-called green products?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/19

• ...that Karachi’s Lyari River is the major contributor to the annual discharge of 200 million gallons of sewage and Industrial waste into the Arabian Sea?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/20

• ...that in 2001, about 1.1 billion people had extreme poverty consumption levels below $1 a day and 2.7 billion lived on less than $2 a day?

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/21

• ...that the largest part of the informal economy, around 70%, in developing countries is self-employment, while in developed countries wage employment predominates.

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Portal:Sustainable development/Did you know/22

• ...that Biglow Canyon Wind Farm is the largest planned wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon?

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