Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/author/m-woodbury/)
More summer festivals around the Great Lakes are taking initiatives to protect the environment by going green. The festivals’ organizers highly encourage recycling and educate public on how to become echo-friendly.
There are 7 billion people in the world. In the past dozen years the Earth’s population has grown by about 1 billion. If all 7 billion lived like the average United States resident, how many planets do you think we’d need? I asked that question of 10 classmates at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. Most said their environmental footprint would be about average.