World energy resources and consumption

It puts the world into perspective, thinking about the architecture before the architect, allowing us to re-invent ourselves in our own specific part of the world and drives us to only think in terms survival. The climate-reactive, culturally influenced style and of these types of structures creates a living space that is an environmentally friendly and resource conscious solution to any local housing requirements. Throughout history the…

O. Sigu, J. G. Kariuki, A. M Luvanda and B.N. Kigomo of Production-to-Consumption Systems: A Case Study of the Bamboo Sector in Kenya, the many locals living in the urban, peri-urban, and rural areas gain income from the bamboo industry. Their jobs range from “...harvesting [,] assembling, transportation, processing, packaging…

argues that, on the contrary, it is demand that may be nearing a plateau – at least in developed countries – as the response of other industries to high oil prices and to climate change-related policies ruffle through every aspect of economies, so that energy is used more efficiently and other fuels substitute for oil. At the same time the combination of new technology and prices consistently higher than those of recent decades is opening new potential for new oil supplies from shale and other…

discover further. Especially in this day and age, room for the development of new and innovative technologies can aid in the prediction of massive catastrophic collisions and uncover alternative eco-friendly ways humans rapidly consume and dispose of resources. These ideas have lead to the suggestions of permanently inhabiting new life off of planet Earth. It may seem like a far-fetched idea, however, scientists, environmentalists and astronomers hypothesize that this outlook may be closer than…

Energy Crisis in the 70’s Throughout the 1970’s, the United States of America had some trouble maintaining the amount of resources they previously had. The shortages of these resources stirred up arguments in America. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter spoke about all of these issues in the country. Conflicts in the United States of America included claims that the president didn’t actually care, parts of the energy crisis, and how the government was said to be ineffective during all of this. But,…

custom, and as well as the socioeconomic system. While often confused with eco-tourism, it is not eco-tourism, while; eco-tourism is only a sub-set of sustainable tourism. Ecotourism focuses on minimize impact and maximize protection of all resources, including energy and water. However, sustainable…

multiplication in global population growth one of which is the environment depletion and exhaustion of natural resources. Keeping the goals of attaining a sustainable environment hence sustainable life at sight communities are now entering a world that is labeled “The Third Industrial Revolution”, as society moved from fossil fuels in the Second Industrial Revolution to renewable energy generation, technologies in sustainable and smart communities. This is why green technology has been…

Conserving and managing natural resources and wastes are national priorities. From unplugging your television, to riding a bike to work, there are many ways in which we can sustainably manage natural resources and wastes. Natural resources are what makes modern life possible for us, and it may seem impossible for some to cut back because of how much more convenient it may be. Conserving and maybe even, “going a little prehistoric” will come in handy once we are using less, and preserving more.…

Alternative energies are becoming a major focus point as climate change reports are showing staggering statistics on how negatively fossil fuels are effecting the earth’s climate. Per the Government of Canada (2016), human activity has been the number one cause of climate change on earth. The suns intensity and volcanic activity are the only natural causes to climate change today. The burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas, are the leading causes of today’s climate change…

This week, the reading selections were quite interesting. We have these two authors, Taylor and Epstein, who truly approach the environmental topic in separate ways. On one hand, we have Paul Taylor defending our environment all the way in the article “The Ethics of Respect for Nature”. In this article, Taylor insists that we switch our current perspectives, regarding the environment, to ones that further zoom in on the sake of nature. In fact, Taylor states that “once we reject the claim that…