1000 Search Results for Technology and the Environment
Pollution Strategies Improve Air Quality do not think that today's pollution strategies can improve our air quality. Although we are told by the media that the air quality is getting better, why then do incidence of asthma, cancer, acid rain, global Continue Reading...
CAFO's
The Impact of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
In the past century there has been a substantial change in the way human beings raise and keep animals meant for food. While in the past there were great numbers of widely spaced small ind Continue Reading...
Consumption Sustainability
According to The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own Continue Reading...
BP Oil Spill
Strategy and Corporate Governance
The bp oil spill of 2010
British Petroleum (BP) is one of the largest oil exploring companies in the world. It is recognized for its efficient practices. In recent years it has positioned itself as an Continue Reading...
Interior and Commerce Department agencies are to determine which species should be listed; individuals may petition the agencies to have species designated. The Fish and Wildlife Service, in the Interior Department, deals with land species; the Nati Continue Reading...
Ultimately, it is quite clear that modern communication technology has changed the world. There are very few entities that can viably make that claim, but the last several decades have, without a doubt, permanently and universally transformed the w Continue Reading...
During pollution peaks, this department informs residents and announces any traffic restriction measures decided on by the town hall. Air quality has distinctly improved over the past two years and these restrictions are becoming less frequent" (Ene Continue Reading...
ring of haze surrounding modern cities looms ominously and the hole in the ozone layer grows, but people rarely understand that air pollution is within our control. The causes of air pollution are many, and save for natural contributions to temporar Continue Reading...
Executive summary
Contemporary Biotechnology has produced considerable contribution to the global farming and health sector. Advancement of several medicines, numerous pharmaceuticals, vaccines making use of recombinant DNA technology has made biote Continue Reading...
Joseph Tainter, Sustainability
What does moving toward sustainability really entail? Joseph Tainter's article on "Social Complexity and Sustainability" makes a crucial distinction at the outset, differentiating sustainability from resiliency. Sustai Continue Reading...
30 and 0.50 g-hp-hr for the same factors respectively.
The actions taken by the EPA in this regard is justified given the fact that greenhouse gases account for 90 to 99% chance of global warming. Some of the prominent greenhouse gases that contribu Continue Reading...
There are other solutions that manufacturers are working on to handle this. Cloth diapers may be used in conjunction with a fully disposable, flushable diaper liner that can be sent down the toilet to limit landfill waste. This may be a good alterna Continue Reading...
In general, the CDT urges the enactment of legislation organized around FIPs. Such practices are guided by certain principles: transparency; individual participation; purpose specification; data minimization; use limitation; data quality and integr Continue Reading...
(2009). Feel the Green Under Your Toes. Retrieved April 6, 2010, from http://www.edcmag.com.
Austin Energy. (2009). Sustainable Building Sourcebook: Floor Coverings. Retrieved April 5,
2010, from http://www.austinenergy.com.
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9%
Yard Trimmings - 12.9%
Food scraps - 12.4%;
Plastics - 11.7%;
Rubber, leather and textiles - 7.3%
Metals - 7.6%
Wood - 5.5%
Glass - 5.3%
The following figure shows the number of landfills in the United States between 1998 and 2006
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As to the climate, as a result of huge factory smokestacks belching out black smoke from the burning of coal, the atmosphere slowly began to change and severely affected rainfall patterns and created variations in the temperature of the air. This w Continue Reading...
The former had been neglected. This was a very serious kind of neglect, she said. She concluded that unless the nitrogen problem was confronted and adequately contained, climate change would not be solved (Bohan).
Toxicity
EPA established that exp Continue Reading...
They can also enable countries to become more self-reliant rather than relying on international sources of energy. In these five ways, dams may prove very beneficial to countries utilizing them.
Many cities that build dams take advantage of damns a Continue Reading...
Tide Detergent and the Political Environment
According to Otto Bettmann's memorably titled book, The Good Old Days -- They Were Terrible, adulteration of soaps and foodstuffs were rife in the era of the 1910's and 1920's before Tide Detergent became Continue Reading...
Self-Healing Concrete: Annotated BibliographyAbavisani, I., Rezaifar, O., & Kheyroddin, A. (2023). Efficient approaches to autogenous and autonomous self-healing concrete: a review. Magazine of Concrete Research, 75(20), 10511079.Providing technical Continue Reading...
tension between businesses interests in maximizing profits and the public's interest in receiving complete, truthful, and non-misleading information about products that they purchase.
The dangers against greenwashing are that consumers will have no Continue Reading...
Social Ecology of Health Promotion
Preservation of the existing ecosystems
Accumulating evidence suggest that sustainable agriculture should be promoted. The growth and development of agriculture will still be the driving force of the loss of ecosy Continue Reading...
d.), Miller Brewing was the first brewery to "recover excess carbon dioxide from the brewing process for sale…to food processors for refrigeration purposes." Likewise, Miller resells its brewer's yeast to food processors instead of wasting it.
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Is Bottled Water Truly as Pure as the Industry Would Like Us to Believe?
The NRDC hired three independent laboratories to conduct the testing of more than 1,000 plastic bottles -- 103 different brands -- and found that "about one third" the 103 br Continue Reading...
Utilitarianism Ethics as it Relates to Fisheries
Fishing is an organized activity of people to catch fish or other marine organisms. Normally, fishery is a source of human food, even though it also serves other objectives like sport or recreational Continue Reading...
With this information, people can make informed decisions regarding the water they consume. Which additives are healthful? Which are not? These are examples of only some of the questions responsible consumers should have when choosing their water. R Continue Reading...
Therefore, probabilism is more about making an informed and educated choice based on the realm of probabilities available. Probabilism brings with it the theory of prediction, and also positivism, with which it is closely associated. However, probab Continue Reading...
Brinkman Grills Analysis
The Brinkman Corporation is among the leading organizations involved in the manufacture of outdoor cookers, outdoor lighting, smokers, lawn, handheld lighting, and garden products. It also engages in the manufacture of pet p Continue Reading...
Accounting Information for Decision Making
Corporate Confirming on Water Risk (Feb 2010) indicates that the Global Confirming Initiative (GRI) G3 Guidelines' five water-related indications (total withdrawal volume by source, ponds considerably impac Continue Reading...
His task becomes more difficult, however, when he attempts to prove that the right to an unpolluted environment is equal to other rights such as the right to property and life. His basic political philosophy reflects nothing new since Locke; it is i Continue Reading...
Would it be better if no one had an SUV to take into the woods to go camping, to learn about the importance of the environment? Surely, learning about the environment is a way to spur people on, especially the next generation, to want to help the pl Continue Reading...
How the Environment is a Vital Part of our Lives
The environment is a vital part of our lives. The air we breathe, the many items we use every day that depend on natural resources, and our very survival all depends on the environment of planet Ear Continue Reading...
In India, the government is attempting to bring the focus of attention on the presence of fine dust particles as well as the presence of fly ash in the air, and this attempt is being carried out by a series of mitigation measures. The need of the da Continue Reading...
The waste group contains 3 items:
WAS1 -- Storing of Recyclable Household Waste and Non-recyclable Waste
WAS2 -- Building Location Waste Management
WAS3 -- Composting
Issue
Measurement Criteria
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Household Recycling facilities
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Certainly, there are not enough people interested in doing that to allow real change in a community where smog levels are concerned (Carle, 2006). Since smog is mostly made by cars and trucks, a much-reduced number of these vehicles would be require Continue Reading...
EIA Report
The project in question that of Building a reduced-sulfur generating, coal-fired plant by GHECO-One in Map Ta Phut, Thailand was examined for potential environmental impact due to the possible damage that the plant could cause. The compa Continue Reading...
By using the last two centuries as an excuse to motivate the motive for which their countries are unwilling to make any compromise, the Chinese representative practically expresses his point-of-view regarding the situation. It is difficult to determ Continue Reading...
Even with that, the large number of people in Hampton Roads is apparently stressing the area through a series of methods, such as constructing wherever they find place to do so (Koebel).
In contrast to most people in Virginia Beach that are relucta Continue Reading...
Instead of attempting to push sustainability, recycling, reverse logistics on CEOs, and continually persuade them to adopt these strategies, the leaders of these efforts in HP concentrate on selling the business benefits. Significantly reduced cost Continue Reading...
These gunboats would devastate wildlife area and other immense and indefinite environmental impact. These tankers would carry liquefied natural gas or LNG in cruising through Head Harbor Passage. It would take at least 90 minutes for each tanker, th Continue Reading...