Composting

day, the average person produces about 2kg of waste, and nearly 70% of waste found in rubbish bins can be recycled. You can help lower this percentage by simply reusing plastic bags or not using plastic bags at all, recycling your aluminium cans, composting your food waste…There are thousands of simple - and affordable - possibilities for recycling. Imagine just how much better it would be for the environment if that plastic bottle had been recycled instead of thrown it out. When I realized…

Sports and Sustainability. Even for environmentally-conscious sports fans, not often enough do we see both words in the same sentence. It is true that when encouraged to either promoting sustainability or simply embracing it, most sports organizations have failed us and themselves. Nevertheless, teams are building new stadiums which are proving to be beacons for sustainability and green living as a whole. Four of the seven stadiums on this list are either owned or being occupied by NFL teams.…

Cellulose is a linear polysaccharide that consists of glucose residues with β-1, 4-glycosidic linked in the main chain and is the most common natural renewable biopolymer. Its degradation is made by the hydrolytic action of the cellulase, a multiple enzymatic system. Cellulase due to its massive applicability has been used in various industrial processes such as biofuels like bioethanol, lactic acid and single cell protein, through saccharification lignocellulosics or hydrolysis of cellulosic…

community center for village people whose houses are unusable due to flash floods and mud slides. They also support afforestation and are working towards this project through different methods. Their another ongoing project includes construction of composting toilets for villagers, especially for women. The story of R.O.S.E. Kanda begins in June 1988 when a small village man met a foreigner while attending a workshop. The foreigner was a member of some Volunteer…

Riverview Gardens in Appleton, WI was an interesting place to volunteer for my Civic Engagement experience. I started volunteering at Riverview Gardens last winter after writing about the site for my UW Fox Valley course in Urban Geography. We had learned about “gentrification,” in Urban Geography, which is the process of neighborhood upscaling that results in displacing residents who can no longer afford to live there. Riverview Gardens is an example of gentrification in reverse. Riverview…

As a result of the rapidly declining cost of computing power in the 1980’s and 1990’s, visual effects technologies encountered an unprecedented period of rapid growth, innovation and improvement. This period of advancement bled-over into the 2000’s with the rise of consumer and prosumer software programs, which were becoming more and more intuitive, while still remaining cost effective for smaller productions. The science fiction genre changed rapidly throughout the 2000’s, as a result of new…

Deforestation and environmental pollution are just a few of the environmental problems that our planet is facing today; however, as the population of the world continues to grow exponentially, the problems will only continue to get worse and more irreversible. As the amount of people who populate earth increases, “the demand for food, energy, minerals and other products” rises as well (Eitzen, Smith, Zinn 76). As we look at environmental issues, we must remember some “environmental problems are…

The experience of nature can be interpreted countless ways with endless attempted explanations. This indescribability makes profound moments within nature that much more individual and sometimes life-changing. For myself, I have been fortunate to work for land management agencies with the opportunity for these experiences on a daily basis. There are a few that stand out, seared into my memory, forever with me to reflect back on and experience again in my mind's eye. For me, my most profound…

The phrase “You should never go shopping when you’re hungry”, could not be any less relevant than it is today. A quick stop to the grocery on an empty stomach can quickly turn into a full blown shopping trip with a cart overflowing with anything and everything on the shelves that looks good. This can quickly become a problem though. Chances are that not all that food that was picked off the grocery shelves will ever meet the mouth of the consumer who bought it. Much of that food will instead be…

The term of ethical dilemmas is one which has been defined many times, as suggested by Oxford Dictionaries “A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two courses of action, either of which entails transgressing a moral principle.” (Oxford Dictionaries | English, 2017) Therefore, this suggests that one has a choice to make and two courses of actions can have different impacts with the overall moral principle in mind. The purpose of this essay is to therefore discuss different…