Environmental education

Silent Springs Ms. Rachel Carson began a new movement. Rachel Carson brought to light the many dangers pesticides such as DDT have on the environment, animals, and humans. This environmental movement offered new insight about the harm pesticides have on all living organisms. In Silent Spring Rachel Carson starts an environmental movement by informing the public of the dangers of pesticides, which causes a shift in views towards pesticides and the harm they do to the environment. Rachel Carson…

As the biggest company in the sector, IKEA is being closely monitored by the NGO’s working for environmental issues. It needs to make sure to avoid publicity scandals like the one related to exploitation of ancient forests in Russia by IKEA’s subsidiary Swedwood. Operating with ideas of sustainability is necessary in order to build a transparent picture…

begins to see herself as part of the landscape Nature and civilization, women and men are not absolutely opposite. The narrator puts herself in the entire natural world. From the past thirty years, ecofeminism literature has been combining the environmentalist focus on reconnection of nature with the feminist focus on gender equality. The combination produces a feminist view on environmentalism that is concerned with the degradation of both earth and its people. Ecofeminism foregoes a…

book Ecological Design, Sim Van Der Ryn makes a very important statement: “In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis” (Van Der Ryn 1996:24). That is, it is a matter of how things are made and how the environment is used. For many, “green” is merely something that combines or replaces everyday products with recycled ones, or perhaps has a few good ideas about raising awareness for environmental issues. However, this is not enough. The word “sustainable” in the dictionary is…

consumers are increasingly paying more attention to the ethics of businesses with relation to environmental issues. This includes eco-friendly packaging, energy-saving technology, carbon footprints of products and other environmentally friendly means. However, the concept of “green washing” surfaces when businesses deliberately brand themselves as pro-environment through advertising when in reality, environmental issues are compromised. Therefore, a synthesis of trends presents several…

Why BioGreen? Most of the companies now a days are looking for ways to become environmental-friendly to improve its bottom line. BioGreen understands the need of maintaining the natural ecological balance in the environment and so, we came up with the biodegradable products. In order to eliminate the mess, our biggest challenge and responsibility was to develop green products, services and processes that will provide better quality air, a cleaner environment, and a better health. Biodegradable…

in the field of business and politics as well as in the public sphere. This trend is the growing concern with the increased interest in the environmental issues. This has become an immense concern for the organizations since the success of the company is nowadays determined not only by the financial and economic factors but also by the social and environmental factors. The sustainability is thus becoming the central concern of the leaders of the companies, and they need to develop respective…

Ted Talk Paper The two Ted Talks I chose ended up being very intriguing due to the fact that one of them was given by a scientist and the other by an artist. The first Ted Talk I watched was called “How to Grow Fresh Air” by Kamal Meattle. Meattle explained the importance of fresh air in Delhi, a city plaqued by poor air quality, and provided a solution utilizing three types of green plants. The second Ted Talk I watched was called “Street art with a message of hope and peace” by eL Seed. eL…

Environmentalist ideas have been present in literature and art for centuries, with landscapes scenes and the appreciation of nature depicted in the brushstrokes of Patenir or the poems of Whitman. It was not until the late 1940s, however, that the modern environmental movement began to take shape with the passing of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the first federal regulation legislation passed to monitor water quality. Since then, environmentalism has blossomed from that single piece…

Rapa Nui were living in a fairly stable and flourishing culture despite the drastic shifts in their island environment; they had adapted their farming and living practices instead of succumbing to the losses in their environment. As Diamond says, environmental factors alone are not enough to make a culture collapse. Additionally, climate change and its effects must be considered. Shifts can be either positive or negative for a society (12). Diamond says that climate change was an even larger…