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    Community Garden Essay

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    The purpose of this paper is to argue for the implementation of an organized community garden program at UC Santa Barbara by first establishing the potential effectiveness of horticulture at advancing access to fresh food and promoting personal wellbeing among the student population. In doing so, this paper will examine several key question regarding the benefits of agricultural production on campus and its feasibility. First, how much food could be grown on campus and how does this compare to current produce consumption in a single year? Second, how will community gardens help to alleviate the issue of food insecurity among college students? Third, what are the advantages of improved nutrition from a diet of increased fruits and vegetables? Fourth, what role can campus organizations play in providing and supporting sustainable organic produce? Fifth, how can community gardens further student mental health? The need for community gardens on campus is based on the assumption that a substantial segment of the student body is underachieving academically as a result of poor health and nutrition. It also assumes that student gardeners and employees would have the knowledge and skill sets to be able to efficiently manage and make complete use of the allotted farming spaces to produce maximum crop yields. Lastly, the paper does not differentiate the many different varieties of each fruit and vegetable from one another nor their respective yields under different climates and…

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    KCPL could not increase its prices to take care of the rising costs. Also, with a capacity to produce 240 tonnes per month, KCPL is utilising only half of it and rest is rendered surplus. Historically, KCPL was trapped in similar situation when it was producing candies and had to shut down its operation in Rajasthan during 1954. This concludes that KCPL has been consistently weak in marketing and had not learned the best practices of cost management. Pearson health drinks Limited had outsourced…

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    would need to wait until the soil is useable. b) Changes in harvested area between 1990 - 2014 Africa: 1990: 60 million hectares 2014: increased to 120 million hectares +(100%) North America: 1990: 80 million hectares 2014:decreased to 70 million hectares -(12.5%) South America: 1990: 30 million hectares 2014: increased to 40 million hectares+(33.3% Asia: 1990: 270 million hectares 2014: increased to 340 million hectares +(25.93%) Europe: 1990: 190 million hectares 2014: decreased to 120 million…

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    same, the amount of heat in kWh produced by one kilogram of uranium is approximately 24 million compared to 8 from coal and 12 from mineral oil [4]. While these numbers aren’t precise, they give a general understanding of comparison. How much waste is produced by Coal Fired power plants vs. Nuclear Power plants? Each year, fossil fuels rely on a huge amount of resources to keep the power plants going. This amount of resources is not only harmful to the environment because of extraction, but…

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    Company Shell Case Study

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    them to explore an area and the agreements are also helpful to divide the areas with other competitors and have everything legally correct (Offshore Energy Today 2014). An example of a fully owned by Shell production plant is the Shell Eastern Petrochemicals Complex plant that is a huge fully-integrated refinery in Singapore. Examples for Joint-Venture plants and projects are listed below. • “Shell Eastern Petroleum Pte Ltd (SEPL) owns isopropyl alcohol (IPA) and hydrocarbon solvents plants on…

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    Dhamra Port Case Analysis

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    This second phase of development will take the port’s capacity to more than 100 million tonnes by 2020 and therefore allow Adani Ports to fulfil its stated vision of becoming a 200 million tonne ports business well before the year 2020. Mundra, the largest port in the country, recently crossed the 100 million tonne mark in annual cargo handling. The Adani group owns five ports and is developing ports in Kandla and Ennore. Adani Ports is country’s largest port operator with its flagship Mundra…

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    As KCPL would have offer of 70 tonnes of biscuit per month, they would minimize their losses. KCPL has to react on this offer as early as possible because other biscuit manufacturers re also in the line of getting the business from APL. 2. Accept the APL offer and keep the Pearson offer as well. Due to this reputation of KCPL will remain intact as they would be producing and selling MKG brand in the market as well. As KCPL would have offer from both APL and Pearson, they would be utilizing their…

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    War Communism Significance

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    very significant for the Soviet Union because it was one of the reasons was to why Lenin changed the old economic policy of War Communism to the New Economic Policy (NEP) in March 1921. The NEP was very significant for the Soviet Union for two reasons. The first is that it improved…

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    Challenges of fossil fuels 1. Not renewable energy Fossil fuels comprise of crude oil, coal and natural gas. It is not renewable and cannot be replaced. Plants and animals that existed millions of years ago became buried underneath the Earth’s surface. This formed as the fossil fuels. Since fossil fuels has limited supply, it can’t fulfil the world’s energy demand. Therefore, alternative energy source is needed to replace the fossil fuels. 2. Emission of carbon dioxide Combustion of fossil…

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    “collectivization” of agriculture and the second on increasing the output of coal, iron, and other resources. The collectivization meant that all farms were owned by the government, the peasants were forced to work extra hard in order to rapidly industrialize. The reasons for collectivization was to grow more food in order to feed the workers in industry, and to sell overseas to bring money into the country. Stalin achieved most of his aims; the grain production rose to nearly 100 million tonnes…

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