Deep ecology

As a Biology major, working towards a minor in sustainability, I have learned to appreciate the moments when my mind engages with a new-found sense of knowledge and understanding. Many people think sustainability is all about saving the planet and recycling. They are all thinking of being environmentally friendly they can be sustainable. But, there is no universal definition of what sustainability means. Instead, there are many different views on what it is and how it can be achieved.…

Name Tutor Course Date Bowie’s Concept of Business and Environmental Care The effort to try and define the true nature as well as the force of the responsibilities of any business to the environment surrounding continues to face a graven stumbling block. This is as a result of the absence of a consensus concerning the basic nature of general environmental responsibility. If simply defining the responsibility of an individual to the environment is usually problematic, how is it possible to…

Conditions such as uncleared drainage canals and a swampy soil in Kemar’s landscape are favorable to mosquito breeding and habitation. 2. On a broader level, stagnant water, excessive reeds, and extreme heat can also play a role in the increased mosquito breeding. Specifically, tropical regions are typical breeding grounds for mosquitos thanks to acute water presence from rain. 3. Shanae’s illness could be caused by the increasing number of mosquitos she has been exposed to, some of which cary…

The Bubonic plague, one of the world’s worst epidemics was the result of a species of rat boarding a cargo ship from Asia to Europe. This rat carried diseases that eventually wiped out a third of Europe. That species of rat could be considered an invasive species. An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific habitat, and whose introduction can cause environmental harm or harm to another population. Some of the most significant negative effects of invasive nonindigenous…

Sustainable business is a company or organization that has minimum harm on the society or economy of the global or local environment, it is a business that ensures the triple bottom line (reduce, reuse, recycle) are achieved. A business could be presented as a sustainable or green business if it: makes endless efforts to maintain the environmental protection principles and consider the principles of sustainability when making a business decisions; provides replacement for the non green products…

Rudraksh Kapil Topic Area: Biodiversity Loss of biodiversity: what are the causes and what can we do? Biodiversity is the variety of all forms of life on Earth - plants, animals and microorganisms. Biodiversity refers to: Species; Variations within species; and interdependence of species. It is interesting to note that only about 1.2 million worldwide species have been identified and catalogued out of a towering total of about 8.7 million, as of August 2011[1]. A range of factors and…

MVS AP Environmental Science 3.1 Symbiotic Relationships 
 1. How are symbiotic relationships between living things different from other interactions, such as predation and competition? (1 point) In predation and competition organisms are alone in the world fighting to survive and reproduce and they are short-lived interactions. According to The Free Dictionary, “Predation is when a predator organisms feeds on another living organism, also known as a prey. Competition is a relationship between…

Our earth is consisted of biological importance that affects our daily life. We have invented and innovated several practices to help maintain an environmental yet economic status. Clear cutting is a prime example of this similar method. Clear cutting also known as clear felling is a logging practice in which every tree is cut down from a selected area (Clear-Cutting). This method is the most common method yet the most controversial. This practice has several effects on the economy and the…

When you are asked to describe the developments of one’s personality, one would acknowledge that childhood experiences and surroundings shape who they become. One’s character is built throughout their entire life, carrying with us different experiences and ways of thinking. Malcolm Gladwell, in “The Power of Context,” emphasizes the theory that the roles of the environment can impact the decisions and behaviors of human beings. And this is shown in, Steven Johnson’s, “The Myth of the Ant Queens”…

Overview How humans interact with the natural environment is becoming one of the most pervasive issues of the modern world. The effects that human development has had on the natural environment, are only recently beginning to be realised, and has led some scholars to call for the current geological epoch to be termed the “Anthropocene”, due to the great effect human populations have had on the natural environment (Steffen et al. 2011: 843). There has also been a rise in environmentalist…