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All the of the meat eaters in the group partook in trying some of the traditional stuffed, grilled, and smoked delicacy. It was then off to Cerámicas Seminario a ceramic workshop, where we got to see how clay pottery ceramics have continued to made and painted by hand by extremely talented local artists. The final stop of the day was at a small chicha house. Chicha or chicha morada is a sweet fermented corn or purple corn drink with a low alcohol content of about 3 percent. We each tried a…

While the POGG clause has been successful in enacting a handful of effective national policy, it is not a clause to be relied on for innovative, forward thinking federal environmental legislation. It has, however, allowed for the federal government to pass a handful of environmental policies. For example, the Clean Air Act 1979 was passed through the use of the POGG clause by the federal government. Ultimately though, the Supreme Court through rulings has set precedents in both provincial and…

having minority population in a country the indigenous community has gone through several difficulties. The article shows that activist Berta Caceres was fighting for the Indigenous peoples’ rights in the Honduras because the corporation building hydroelectricity is polluting the environment, which would affect the Lenca indigenous people. This is the present situation of Latin American countries; likewise, in the history of Latin American countries, there has been an injustice for the…

panels atop their buildings to save money using electricity. There is also windmill farms out West where the land is very flat. These windmill farms can produce enough renewable energy to support a small town all on just wind energy. There is also hydroelectricity, this uses water to power buildings without having to use fossil fuels like consumers have been. The reason everyone doesn’t switch to renewable energy is that of the cost it includes for installing windmills or solar panels. People…

total of 283 million tons of coal were mined, providing about 64% of the state’s electrical production (Reese and Loughlin, 61).” Mining has caused severe environmental impacts ranging from the toxic chemicals seeping into the watershed, the altering of landscapes, and large amounts of waste (Reese and Loughlin, 61). New laws have been developed in order to reverse the negative trends from mining, which include the following: Abandoned Mine Land law, Open Cut Land Reclamation Act, Surface Mining…

Nuclear Power: A Ticking Time Bomb Nuclear energy is currently one of the major energy sources in the world right now. It is the world’s third most utilized fuel currently, only behind fossil fuels and hydroelectricity (“Nuclear Power Today”). However, it also has the highest disaster potential out of all the energy sources currently in use. This was made evident by the fallout of the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan (“Nuclear Exodus”). This has led to the resurfacing of arguments…

Energy production Jigsaw Project individual Selena Xu 1. Second law of thermodynamics: ❖ What is the second law of thermodynamics? Well, this law talks about the quality of energy, while the quantity of energy and matter stays constant. This law tells us that heat will flow from a hotter object to a colder object, due to Newton’s second law and that when energy is transferring and transforming, some of the useful energy might be lost . ❖ Cyclic process of energy transfer is a when a series…

You will never be able to fully prevent flooding in a coastal community located at the mouth of an estuary. It is possible to reduce the damage from flooding that may happen. As well as creating a better future for the community. To do this the community needs to focus on building their businesses, recreational water activities, strategic placement of retention ponds, and creating a system for carpooling. By focusing on these four points the property owners will be able to grow their economy,…

Getting electricity Data from Doing Business A firm has to go through 7 procedures in order to obtain an electricity supply and connection. These include applications and contracts with electricity utilities, clearances from other agencies and the external and final connection works. The whole process from submitting the application to installing the final connection takes 137 calendar days and costs a substantial 126.1% of income per capita. The reliability of supply and transparency of tariffs…

Coming across an invention that meets three criteria to be truly innovative which are creative, cheap, and efficient is extremely rare. It is an engineering tragedy to see a feat such as this go unnoticed or overlooked and underutilized throughout the course of history. Until just recently, in a dire attempt to cease greenhouse gas emissions, the wind turbine is being reinvented and reestablished as a major competitor to most forms of fuels we use today. With its low cost, small size, and high…