Systems ecology

Sustainable business is a company or organization that has minimum harm on the society or economy of the global or local environment, it is a business that ensures the triple bottom line (reduce, reuse, recycle) are achieved. A business could be presented as a sustainable or green business if it: makes endless efforts to maintain the environmental protection principles and consider the principles of sustainability when making a business decisions; provides replacement for the non green products…

Rudraksh Kapil Topic Area: Biodiversity Loss of biodiversity: what are the causes and what can we do? Biodiversity is the variety of all forms of life on Earth - plants, animals and microorganisms. Biodiversity refers to: Species; Variations within species; and interdependence of species. It is interesting to note that only about 1.2 million worldwide species have been identified and catalogued out of a towering total of about 8.7 million, as of August 2011[1]. A range of factors and…

MVS AP Environmental Science 3.1 Symbiotic Relationships 
 1. How are symbiotic relationships between living things different from other interactions, such as predation and competition? (1 point) In predation and competition organisms are alone in the world fighting to survive and reproduce and they are short-lived interactions. According to The Free Dictionary, “Predation is when a predator organisms feeds on another living organism, also known as a prey. Competition is a relationship between…

Our earth is consisted of biological importance that affects our daily life. We have invented and innovated several practices to help maintain an environmental yet economic status. Clear cutting is a prime example of this similar method. Clear cutting also known as clear felling is a logging practice in which every tree is cut down from a selected area (Clear-Cutting). This method is the most common method yet the most controversial. This practice has several effects on the economy and the…

When you are asked to describe the developments of one’s personality, one would acknowledge that childhood experiences and surroundings shape who they become. One’s character is built throughout their entire life, carrying with us different experiences and ways of thinking. Malcolm Gladwell, in “The Power of Context,” emphasizes the theory that the roles of the environment can impact the decisions and behaviors of human beings. And this is shown in, Steven Johnson’s, “The Myth of the Ant Queens”…

The environment and climate have been controversial topics for many people. Environmental and climate damage have caused many societies in the past to collapse. Both videos lecture this week point out the need to keep the environment and climate safe and free from damage. If nothing is done, it can cause major damage on our isolated planet Earth and most importantly negatively human beings. Humans need to understand the importance the environment has on our survival. Jared Diamond is an American…

When describing a sense of place many people seem to neglect the importance of the physical environment. The physical environment plays a large role in a person 's connection to a place and culture. This article breaks the feeling of a sense of place down to two factors, first the social and cultural contest and second the nature of the space which is described as a place. This article uses qualitative measures to describe landscape amening, environmental values, and a comprehensive social…

In 2006, Goetsch and Davis stated that if customers are people who receive your work, only they can determine what quality is, only they can tell you what they want, and how they want it. “The customer is the only one who can decide whether the quality of the product and services that supply the satisfactory” (Hoyle, 2007). To increase the sales of environmentally sensible products, company must increase consumers’ awareness of green products, improve consumers’ perceptions of eco-products’…

Theoretically, sustainability refers to the balance maintained between human socioeconomic activity and the use of resources ensuring their availability for the future generations (Brundtland & World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987). In the same order of ideas, three tenets of sustainability, which are the social, economic, and environmental balance, are required to attain and maintain human development. Current socioeconomic practices and political interests are making…

nature cannot replenish them 4. Causing the natural chemical cycle as well as the flow of the energy in the nature to be disturbed. 5. When human relies more on some of fossil fuels that are resulting in pollution and climate changes. 6. The natural systems are altered, when some of the harmful species are introduced to a natural community. 7. Declines in biodiversity 8. The increase in the usage of (NNP: which is a term standing for…