Natural World

what are the positive effects of recycling? Good morning Ms. Beth & classmates. Today, I will inform you about the positive effects of recycling. First, I'm going to talk about the environmental effects. Then, I'll talk about how recycling saves natural resources. After that, I'll mention some of the economic effects. Finally, I'm going to explain how recycling saves energy. So what is recycling? According to resident life, recycling is the reprocessing of materials into new products to reduce…

Air pollution is a mixture of natural and man-made substances in the air we breathe. It can be divided into two main categories: indoor air pollution and outdoor air pollution. Outdoor air pollution takes place outside the natural built environment. The main types of outdoor pollutions are: Ozone, Particulate matter, Carbon Monoxide, Nitrogen Oxides, Sulfate Dioxides, Lead. The health effects are risks associated with outdoor air pollution varies depending on age and previous health/medical…

The commons are the natural resources available to all members of a society or community. The natural resources include water, air, animals, plants. These materials are not owned privately, they are held in common. Hardin’s main assumption about the commons can be separated in three categories; the world is biophysically finite, over-population can be considered as an example of the tragedy of the commons, and the system commons for breeding must be abandoned. The tragedy of the commons…

In the period following World War II, Britain’s position in the world changes drastically as it not only lost its status as a great imperial power, but itt also experienced a number of social and political changes. Fears and anxieties regarding the decline of Britain’s global significance following the end of the war are revealed in literature that examines and critiques the responses to decline. In John Christopher’s The Death of Grass, the destruction of all grasses by a virus removes the…

=Natural selection and The Theory of Evolution were just two of the things that Charles Darwin conquered through the exploration of The Galapagos Island. Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, England. In 1831, Darwin convinced Captain Robert FitzRoy to let him join him aboard the H. M. S. Beagle as the ships naturalist. They first settled off from England in 1831 for a five year voyage, Charles Darwin had an ambition for scientific research. After exploring the coast of South…

Prisoners of Geography: Western Europe and Russia Although technology is increasingly advancing and shaping the way our world works, the bottom line for the human geography of a region is its physical geography. Prisoners of Geography, a book written by Tim Marshall, takes this idea and further applies it to the various regions of the world. The book discusses the diverse environmental features in the world’s regions and their impacts, which can both resemble and differ from impacts in other…

Throughout John Dryzek’s book, he explains discourse in terms of environmental science and its connection to policies, society, and the economy. He defines discourse as “a shared way of apprehending the world” and adds that discourses contain “representations and systems of meaning” (9). To understand a discourse means that you are able to build a story about a particular issue by drawing the pieces of information available. Environmental discourse is then the conversation or debate on the…

The different social structures like industrial, agricultural, religious, aesthetic etc. have developed during various stages of human civilization and these structures represent human being’s accumulated cultural resources based on natural environment. If the natural environment helped in the…

The world is at a point in its history when it realizes it’s time for a change. That change being a move away from fossil fuels towards cleaner, renewable sources of energy. Many companies are creating ways the average individual can contribute to a cleaner future. Whether it’s by the creation of hybrid and electric cars or allowing people to install solar panels on their roofs and wind turbines in their backyards. However, these new sources of energy are far from perfect and will require years…

Over the many years mankind has been on the earth they have been building homes and structures. As the world was evolving and changing so were the buildings and structurers. It seemed to be mankind were constructing the building to the environment around them. So depending on what was going on had a huge impact on have the buildings were constructed. Now that mankind is all about wanting to save resources and create more self-sustaining buildings. A self-sustaining building is a structure that…