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What is Habitat Loss?
This is the biggest threat to wildlife
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What is 3?
Renewable Energy creates this many times more jobs than fossil fuels.
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What is hog farming?
This kind of farming in North Carolina is responsible for giant pools of bright pink sludge around the state
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What is the Smart Home?
This is the sustainable home which is partially powered by solar energy on Central Campus
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What is infinite?
An aluminum can is able to be recycled this many times
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What is hunting?
This is a tool of wildlife management which actually reduces a population
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What is 4?
Fossil fuels get this many more times the subsidies of renewable energy sources
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What are Thursdays and Sundays?
These are the two days each week you can volunteer at the Duke campus farm
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What is Environmental Hall?
Opened in 2014, this building is the home of the Nicholas School of the Environment
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What is the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
Comprised of over 7 million tons of trash, this is the biggest ocean garbage patch on Earth
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What is the saber-toothed tiger?
This is the last feline species to go extinct
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What is biomass?
In 2016, this is the largest renewable source of energy consumed in the United States.
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What is 66%?
This percentage of livestock is factory farmed (Correct if within 10% of the answer)
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What is 7,000?
Approximately this many acres are owned and managed by Duke University in the Duke Forest? (Correct if within 1,000 acres of the answer)
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What is paper?
At 31%, this is the biggest category of waste that winds up in the landfill
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What is a fungus?
What has killed off tens of thousands of amphibians in the last few decades?
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What is a year?
Enough sunlight falls on the earth’s surface every hour to meet world energy demand for this amount of time
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What is 50%?
This percentage of food grown is wasted in the United States (Correct if within 10% of the answer)
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What is the Climate Action Plan?
Developed by the Duke Campus Sustainability Committee, this document guides the University in achieving carbon neutrality by 2024?
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What is 90%?
Westerners typically spend this percent of their time indoors (Correct if within 10% of the answer)
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What is 9?
Since the U.S. Endangered Species Act was enacted in 1973, only this many animals from the list have gone extinct
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What is 332?
One wind turbine is able to generate enough electricity to power up to this many households. (Correct if within 50 of the answer)
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What is 1850?
This many gallons of water are needed to produce one pound of beef (Correct if within 200 gallons of the answer)
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Who is William Reiley?
This former EPA Administrator is the chair of the board of directors for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
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What is 1.7?
We would need this many Earths to support the current global lifestyles across the planet (Correct if within .1 of the answer)
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