Carbon Free Girl - A Race Car Driver's Journey to Be Carbon Neutral

I would like to dedicate this page to Stephen Colbert. Stephen, I know you are not a big fan of facts. Or books. Or science because as you know science is full of both facts AND books. Double whammy! The only thing that would make science worse in your eyes is if we could turn science into a bear, those godless killing machines. Stephen, you have filled my mind with so much truthiness over the years. I have watched you grow from the days when you were just another lowly correspondent on the Daily Show, to your rise to fame as a Presidential Candidate / Spokesperson for Doritos. You are surely South Carolina's favorite son. You are certainly this vegetarian hippie chick race car driver's favorite South Carolinian. (is that a word?) And it's not just because I don't know anyone else from South Carolina either! But enough about me. Stephen, this page is for you!

PS. Hey, I was really sorry to hear about the Presidential Candidate thing falling through. Seriously though, you had my vote.

The world consumes more than 1 million plastic bags per minute, an estimated 500 billion - 1 trillion bags per year. It takes 60 million barrels of oil to make 500 billion bags & they can take 1000 yrs to break down

The United States and Canada make up 5% of the world's total population but are responsible for 31.5% of consumption.

For every $11 worth of groceries, $1 goes to packaging.

The United States throws away 40 million tons of paper each year that could be recycled.

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