Fuel efficiency

See judge act method can help us understand ways to explain these controversial environmental issues negatively affecting the world around us. Fracking and mountaintop removal has become a potentially fatal topic in multiple states. Hydraulic fracturing or Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Water, sand and 596 chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure which allows the gas…

I have chosen to put a candle inside of the shoebox to represent the main character in the book, John, or Number Four. In the story John Smith has is immune to fire on the exterior of his body, but not the inside of his body. John Smith is able to control and create light, and because of that, he is also able to control fire. This power of Johns doesn't just allow him to control fire, but also energy itself making John's power limitless. There is a thermometer in the shoebox because the…

Furthermore, there were other two main factors that enabled Britain to be the first industrial revolution, which were geography and natural resources. Historically, coal became the key energy resource supplied for Britain instead of wood at that time due to the vast rise in demand of the energy use for both household and industrial heating, and machinery. Although, Britain had the abundance of coal, the amount of coal produced could not distinguish Britain from others because other European…

Oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas is a very controversial topic. Oil is very important and we depend on oil for many daily uses. Although we have developed other alternative sources of oil, such as solar power, solar power only operates when receiving power from the sun. People depend on oil even with the use of solar power. The use of oil has been the number one source of energy since the early 1900’s. People generally do not realize how much they truly depend on oil. Without the…

cancer are just a few of the problems associated with fracking. This dangerous extraction technique involves, drilling down into the ground containing natural gas and pumping a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals to dissolve the rock and release the fuel. A process that those in favor of argue, can bring benefits such as, employment, energy independence, reduced C02 emissions and economic profits. However, fracking risks far outweigh the benefits, and is a danger to communities, environments…

Michael Pollan's essay “Why Bother” argues that each individual should contribute in making insignificant life changes in order to improve the conditions of climate change. Although without co-operation and scientific certainty, it wouldn't be possible to make the required level of change. During this essay, Pollan addresses that it would not greatly impact human life making small changes to support the environment. Instead, the difficulty is realizing it will only take small changes from…

Unit 3 Essay In a perfect world climate change, wouldn’t be a problem, people wouldn’t go hungry, you don’t have to choose to get skittles or sour patch your mom would buy you both and many other things. And say in this perfect world we found a solution. The solution was to make humans autotrophic reducing our carbon foot print then maybe even reversing global warming. But even if this were to happen other problems would arise such as people having to change their lifestyles, tons more of water…

The three-spined stickleback fish is a well known fish to Alaskans it has two pointy spikes on its back and it is a yellowish brown color. It is located in the Pacific Ocean and some salt water lakes near Alaska. The first recorded spotting of the stickleback was in 1964. The rates of fish being caught near Alaska have been recorded for many years and the rate of stickleback caught in the 1990's is double what is being caught now. Mating occurs in early spring and summer for these fish…

The delicate ecosystem is crumbling faster than many people realize and those who do choose to ignore the facts. Three time Pulitzer prize winner and New York Times columnist, Thomas L. Friedman, vocalizes the importance of persevering nature and the diversity of creatures, in his article, “We Are All Noah Now”. Friedman’s purpose is to prompt his audience to take action in their lives against the destruction of this beautiful earth. The majority of people want to leave “saving the planet” to…

When creating a sustainable solutions vision, we need to keep in mind that the visioning has to be sustainable, coherent, tangible, plausible, motivational and capable of achieving a good complexity-capacity balance. a) Sustainable vision – My vision is to BAN Fracking all together. Fracking contaminates underground water and also quite significantly contributes to global warming. In order for these potential dangers to be mitigated, fracking must be banned. It might sound radical but no…