var arrTrends = new Array();
var arrQuotes = new Array();
var arrFYI = new Array();

arrTrends[0] = 'Growth of netbooks has accelerated sharply.  For example, more netbooks were sold in Q3 of 2008 than the wildly popular iPhone.  This trend toward netbook adoption should continue in 2009 as entrepreneurs and professionals see the advantages.';
arrTrends[1] = 'In 2009 you‘ll still see more cell phones released in the traditional model (such as the BlackBerry Bold and Storm), but you‘ll also see more cell phones on the market led by software vendors.';
arrTrends[2] = 'Many companies are developing feature rich and low cost Unified Communication (UC) platforms specifically for small businesses.';
arrTrends[3] = 'Vendors are offering more online backup solutions. Instead of backing up your data to a hard disk, DVD or other local media, the data is sent over the Internet and stored on the remote servers.';
arrTrends[4] = 'Hosted applications continue to be used more and more because of its benefits over traditional software.';
arrTrends[5] = 'The environmental issues will force the awareness of interdependent origination. Doing the right thing is simply good business.';
arrTrends[6] = 'In 2008, Monster.com found that 92% of the undergrads they surveyed wanted to work for a green company.';
arrTrends[7] = 'WalMart has committed to 100% of its energy be derived from renewable resources.';
arrTrends[8] = 'Presently, more than 20 US states mandate that a percentage of energy be derived from renewable sources. Many other states are voluntarily following suit.';
arrTrends[9] = 'Venture capital dollars invested in CleanTech - $500M in 2000, $5B in 2008';

arrQuotes[0] = '"The cheapest energy, is the energy you don‘t use in the first place." -- Sheryl Crow';
arrQuotes[1] = '"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." -- Anonymous';
arrQuotes[2] = '"A Healthy Ecology is the Basis for a Healthy Economy" -- Claudine Schneider';
arrQuotes[3] = '"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man‘s need, but not every man‘s greed." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi';
arrQuotes[4] = '"What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common?  They fear solar energy." -- Michio Kaku';
arrQuotes[5] = '"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun." -- Ralph Nader';
arrQuotes[6] = '"I believe that the U.S. can and should be a global leader in the development of alternative energy sources..." -- Barack Obama';
arrQuotes[7] = '"Alternative energy is a future idea whose time is past. Renewable energy is a future idea whose time has come." -- Bill Penden';
arrQuotes[8] = '"It‘s time we stopped turning up our noses at the nation‘s garbage dumps and started appreciating them for what they really are - the municipal mines, forests, oil wells and energy sources of the future!" -- Max Spendlove';
arrQuotes[9] = '"We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we‘re hooked on." -- Kurt Vonnegut';
arrQuotes[10] = '"This is the moment we must come together to save this planet!" -- Barack Obama, Berlin Germany, July 24, 2008';
arrQuotes[11] = '"In the next hour, enough sunlight will hit the earth to meet the entire planet‘s energy needs for an entire year." -- SIA internal';
arrQuotes[12] = '"Solar is the greatest business opportunity in the history of humanity." -- Ted Turner 2007 Solar Conference';
arrQuotes[13] = '"Wind power is the fastest-growing energy source in the world." -- Worldwatch Institute';
arrQuotes[14] = '"Green Investment Will Yield Two Million Jobs in Two Years" -- Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)';
arrQuotes[15] = '"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people." -- Theodore Roosevelt';
arrQuotes[16] = '"It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little." -- Oscar Wilde'; 
arrQuotes[17] = '"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead'; 
arrQuotes[18] = '"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money." -- Cree Indian Proverb'; 
arrQuotes[19] = '"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." -- Hunter S. Thompson';
arrQuotes[20] = '"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." -- Albert Einstein';
arrQuotes[21] = '"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke';
arrQuotes[22] = '"Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology" -- John Tudor';
arrQuotes[23] = '"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG" -- Bill Gates';

arrFYI[0] = 'If just 25% of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 BILLION bags a year.';
arrFYI[1] = 'Every year Americans throw away 24 million tons of leaves and grass. Leaves alone account for 75% of solid waste in the fall. ';
arrFYI[2] = 'Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.';
arrFYI[3] = 'Over the course of 50 years, a single tree can generate $31,250 of oxygen, provide $62,000 worth of air pollution control, recycle $37,500 worth of water, and control $31,500 worth of soil erosion.';
arrFYI[4] = 'One tree can absorb more than a ton of carbon over its lifetime.';
arrFYI[5] = 'One ton of carbon dioxide that is released in the air can be prevented by replacing every 75 watt light bulbs with energy efficient bulbs.';
arrFYI[6] = 'The U.S. government could save $330 million over a four-year period if its data centers complied with Energy Star Version 4.0.';
arrFYI[7] = 'At the 2008 CES, Fujitsu showed a laptop PC whose outside plastic shell is 50 percent vegetable-based polymer alloy.';
arrFYI[8] = 'Recycling 100 million phones would recover 3.4 metric tons of gold';
arrFYI[9] = 'Wii is the power-saving leader of game consoles, consuming only 18.4 watts. Compare the hogs: Xbox (186W), PS3 (199W), and a PC (209W at peak usage).';
arrFYI[10] = 'The energy saved by recycling one plastic bottle will power a computer for 25 minutes.';
arrFYI[11] = 'Biomimicry: Spider silk is 5 times stronger than steel, yet stretches. A very large spider silk net could stop a jet in flight without breaking.';
arrFYI[12] = 'Bugs and bacteria can do fine without humans. Humans cannot live without them.';