In an area where we hope to educate and inform you and our other website visitors, Faircycle will offer free educational resources to help children realise the dangers of aggressive consumerism that our generation took for granted. Here are a few grown up facts written by the Faircycle team that you may find interesting and, we hope, even awe-inspiring. We hope you enjoy browsing through.

• Earth is a Pigsty: most westerners would not choose to live in abject squalor, yet In the last 50 years, mankind has collectively done more damage to our planet than we have over our entire 200,000 year history. Scientists estimate that we have at best a decade to pull ourselves back from the brink.
• We're star-stuff: from the carbon that forms the basis of all known life, our bodies are made from atoms that once existed at the nuclear fusion heart of mighty suns - many times more massive than our own - suns that perished long before the Earth was even created.
• Nature recycles: with very few exceptions, the materials that make up our world have not changed in millions of years. Just about every carbon atom here today has been here since the world first coalesced from a cloud of stellar dust, some 4.35 billion years ago.
• 97% (or more): of the energy we use today was originally generated by our sun: and most of the rest came from the very heart of supernovae that lit the sky billions of years before our earth was even born where radioactive elements such as Uranium were created. We harness our sun's energy in a various ways, but the majority comes from burning fossilised vegetation: oil, coal and gas. Renewables such as hydroelectric power rely on the sun - to move water (via evaporation) to sufficient height to drive the turbines. Wind power relies on heat from the sun to generate air currents; even wave energy (except Tsuamis, which are actually tidal effects) is caused by wind actions! The only energy sources we don't get from space is geothermal - heat originating from the red hot core of our own planet
• Friendly Bacteria: despite the buzz about yoghurt drinks you buy in the plastic container from the supermarket, bacteria have been our friends for a very long time. Some 4 billion years ago our planet's atmosphere was largely made from the carbon dioxide gas that we're so rightly worried about now. In the hot volcanic pools of primordial Earth, life called cyanobacteria evolved (that still exist today) that harness the power of sunlight to co-opt carbon from the carbon dioxide gas dissolved in their pools - releasing oxygen as they did so. The dead bacteria (and the simple life that evolved from them) took that carbon to its grave and produced the atmosphere we rely on for life today.
• Nature's Re-breather: scientists now think that billions of years ago, green plants co-opted a form of cyanobacteria into their own cells - a process they call endosymbiosis - where they live to this day as chloroplasts at the heart of every plant cell. All of today's green plants - from the grass on your lawn, to the vegetation of mighty rain forests - are constantly 'inhaling'? carbon dioxide from the air and 'exhaling'? oxygen as a bi-product: in precisely the same way that we don't. Trees are particularly useful in this regard as they live for such a long time and don't break down easily - so whatever carbon they absorb into their cells stays with them. (Until we come along, dig them up and burn them to power our cars, computers and our lives that is.) Our own cells contain mitochondria: also thought to be the descendants of a pre-historic bacteria!
• We're Solar Powered: we get energy from our food - but the energy it contains originally came from the sun. Plants convert sunlight via photosynthesis into food and when we eat them, we use that energy to power our own cells. The energy in every mouthful of food we consume, from cradle to grave, was formed in our sun!
• Ultimate Recycling: water has been here since the Earth cooled sufficiently for it to exist in liquid form. Essential to all life, water is constantly being reused. Over the millennia, a single water molecule might travel from mighty glacier; through President Abraham Lincoln and eventually end up in the orange juice you had for breakfast - before you recycle it back into the sea and beyond...
• You're unique: no one (not even your identical twin, if you have one) is exactly like you: and the chance of your existence (let alone, your parents, grandparents, etc.) is so mathematically improbable, that you probably don't. Yet here we are - the only life known to exist in a universe of such unimaginable size that it's impossible for most of us to conceive.

Please, help give Earth a future - we owe her that.