Recycling

Chemistry is the field of science involving structures, composition, and properties of substances and matter in order learn how they interact with each other. However, disposing and making chemicals can cause hazard to the environment and wildlife. In “Chemistry: Green and Clean,” Jennifer Weeks builds an argument to persuade her audiences that green chemists are working cooperatively to develop a field of chemistry that can replace polluting technologies. Weeks uses alternative ways to…

Basic Ecology Lab Report Part 1: Primary Article (w/summary), and Hypothesis Summary of Primary Article Should include their hypothesis, what they did, what they found, and why we care. Include a mini citation of the article used. State your hypothesis for our Ecology Lab where we will be surveying the lakes on campus My Hypothesis: If we survey the species in upper and lower pond, then there will not be a significant difference in species composition between the upper and lower ponds due to…

Introduction We cannot compare anything to breathing clean and fresh air. But today, are we breathing clean air? The gases you're taking up by our noise could be slowly killing us. World Health Organization says in their report, in every year about two million people die too early due to the effects of polluted air. Air pollution is a large problem and it is not a problem of people only, the problem of the world also, through such things as global warming and damage to the ozone layer, it has…

ABOUT LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a certification system contrived by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) to evaluate the environmental performance of a building and encourage market transformation towards sustainable design. Beginning with its launch in 2000, LEED has grown from one rating system for new construction to a comprehensive system of nine interrelated rating systems covering all aspects of the development and construction process, which…

Landfills have been around and used for many years. There are landfills that have been around since 1950’s and landfills can have an expectancy of 30-50 years (synonym). Landfills have their pro’s and cons. While the cons seemingly outweigh the cons, they are still present. For example, landfills help with county waste management costs. Counties that control their own waste and landfill management can save “roughly $2 million” (The Courier-Tribune) instead of sending solid waste out of the…

Department of Ecotechnology and Sustainable Building Engineering Mid Sweden University
Östersund, Sweden “SAAB IN SOCIETY” Simplified sustainable development report Václav Pánek Ht16 MX023G (NEKOG B4141) “SAAB IN SOCIETY” Introduction 3 Result 4 Responsible business 4 Code of Conduct 4 Conflict minerals 4 Reduce environmental impact 4 Innovative aircraft wing 5 Biofuels tested on Gripen…

Policy change The Legacy Hopewell House has gone to a new system of disposing pharmaceuticals. The old system allowed for medication to be disposed of in the trash, sink, toilet, or sharps container. The new system, called the Cactus Smart Sink (CSS), allows for disposal in an environmentally safe and non-retrievable way. CSS utilizes a dual canister system that allows for disposal of both solid and liquid pharmaceuticals. Once the drug is placed into the canister it is rendered unretrievable…

Day light saving time “Light is the key to safety.” People may say that varying times cause confusion. For many people it’s to help minimize benefits of the sun. Despite all the benefits of DST, it is not an excellent resource of energy consumption. In the first place, people enjoy the consumption of light. Most people love the benefits of DST. Researchers have found that DST in the 1970s on average everyday saved about 1% on energy costs. It makes sense to a lot of people that more sun…

Goodbye Plastic Water Bottles In the United States, Americans use 50 billion plastic bottles a year. To put that in perspective, Americans consume about 1500 plastic water bottles per second. That is way too much to be using just to use something to drink out of. The United States has some of the safest drinking water in the world, so why do we need to have bottled water that claims to be “purified” or from some springs? The answer is we don’t. In Austin, Texas we have already banned…

Many colleges and universities have banned the sale and distribution of bottled water on their campuses. Bottled water is allowed on campus, but the institution has decided not to sell or distribute bottled water on campus themselves. Hope College does not have a policy of banning plastic water bottles, however, they should. Plastic water bottles are harmful to the environment, are not as convenient as the free water provided by water fountains on campus, and do not contain better water than…