Deep ecology

In the novel, The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization’s Rough Landscape, the author, Harm De Blij, writes about the topic of the impact of physical geography and development. The physical geography is the study of natural features and how we deal with them. Physical geography does not just determine why people can live in certain places or not. Physical geography also influences people’s lifestyles and how they adapt to the food sources and climate. For instance, De Blij states…

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert describes Earth's five previous mass extinctions and how humans are to blame for leading our biodiversity into a sixth mass extinction. As an animal lover and an Earth-history enthusiast, I was excited to begin The Sixth Extinction. Kolbert begins by documenting her scientific journeys, relating biodiversity's current extinction rates, to the previous five, showing the interconnectedness through history. Following this, Kolbert emphasizes that we are…

companies have turned their attention in realizing how going ‘green’ can benefit public relations, reducing cost and lowering the global emissions for industrial manufacturing. Thus Green Computing has become an innovative way on how technology and ecology converge together. Nowadays, people prefer Network-based computing to an in-house based computing. The concept of cloud computing has dramatically changed the classical method of computation. Cloud computing and Green computing are two most…

3. WHAT IS RESILIENCE? Ecosystem resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to abide perturbance without collapsing into a qualitatively different state that is controlled by a different set of processes. A resilient ecosystem can withstand shocks and reconstitute itself when indispensable. Resilience in convivial systems has the integrated capacity of humans to anticipate and plan for the future. Humans are a component of the natural world. We depend on ecological systems for our survival and…

Task 1 In the perspective magazine, I have read the texts “advice on going green” and “we all want to help the planet ”. I find these texts very helpful. Especially for people that wants to go green like me. The texts give you a lot reasons on why you should go green. In the text “advice on going green” they give you ten reasons on how you can become greener. Those ten examples on how to become green is good, because everybody can do those changes to the environment In the text “we all want…

Ecolabelling Ecolabelling is the practice of marking products with a distinctive label to show that their manufacture conforms to recognized environmental standards. It is defined it as a voluntary method of environmental performance certification and labelling that is practiced around the world. It is a label which identifies overall, proven environmental preference of a product or service within a specific/service category. (Global Ecolabelling Network 2013) It marks a product or service…

An abundance of energy must be present in order to begin the agrarian process. This energy is used to grow, nurture and further, future generations. Agriculture is fundamental to the human population for a number of reasons. Firstly, agriculture increases equality amongst society by decreasing competition between members of the community. Also, agriculture provides a sense of food security. Furthermore, agriculture helps grow the economy and provides employment for the community. Additionally,…

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, are a universal call for action to eradicate poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. These 17 Goals build on the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals, while entailing new areas such as climate change, sustainable consumption, peace economic inequality, innovation and justice, among other priorities. The goals are interconnected, often the key to success on one will…

be healthy, intelligent, wise and wonderful skill on communication. A leader, who launch the very important decisions, which have tremendous impact on community, so they must have a very good background science knowledge. A good leader should have deep knowledge and skills on at least one academic field, and capacity to grasp the problem from a…

Mount lavinia hotel can accommodate occupants at a time. Built environment of the hotel possess multiple natural environment features over the time which the building itself and the occupants should be overcome those to provide sustainability in building and comfortless to the occupants. Natural environment constraints  warm and humid climate  High winds  Different high levels of sounds (mount lavinia hotel located near the coast and near a railway. Therefore it should mitigate the sounds…