...First of all I would like to start with how astounded I was that I had an ecological footprint that was that far above the national level. I like to consider myself someone who is very environmentally conscious but I clearly still have some work to do. In today’s society it has become very important that the peripheral nations develop and become economic equals with the rest of the world, and it will definitely be a challenge to make sure that they do it in a way that is environmentally sustainable. This though is very possible as I believe if while they are developing they need to focus on transportation and their sources of energy. It is a widely known fact that transportation (mainly cars) is the main source of CO2 released into the atmosphere and the main cause of air pollution, which contributes to global warming. This is important because when peripheral countries are developing this becomes a priority to make sure that they develop in a sustainable way with the best ways of transportation. While peripheral countries are developing core countries should work with them and stress the importance of the development of hybrid cars and public transportation. This would allow for a large reduction in air pollution as public transit removes a lot of cars from the streets which reduces CO2 emissions. Hybrids would help as they reduce all greenhouse gases from when the car is idling or just sitting at a traffic light. If hybrids are a not successfully introduced a suggestion that...
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...Name Tutor Course Date Ecological footprint Introduction The planet Earth is the only planet that supports and sustains human life. The human activities carried out on the planet are gradually making the planet unfavorable to live on (Perman 81). Ecology involves the study of relationships between living organisms and their usual natural environment. This paper will define ecological footprint, present a deep understanding of the ecological footprint and show how it applies in measuring the peoples’ effects to the environment. The paper will also explain how the ecological footprint can be used in making choices that go in line with people’s lifestyles. The principles of ecological footprint date back to literatures related to geography, ecology and economics. However, the idea of the earth’s ecological footprint has been present since early 90’s (Wackernagel 35). William Rees in 1992 produced the first academic publication on ecological footprint. The concept of ecological footprint and calculation criteria was later developed by Mathis Wackernagel as a PhD dissertation under the supervision of Rees at British Columbia University in Vancouver. Originally, the concept was called the appropriated carrying capacity. Rees later came up with the ecological footprint term in order to ensure that the concept is accessible. The ecological footprint in the planet has transpired as the earth’s vital gauge of the individual’s demand on the environment and the...
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...Calculating Ecological Footprints A major reason Bangladesh has a relatively small ecological footprint is that it is a mainly agricultural and fishing nation of generally low income people (Bangladesh.) Thus they consume basically what they can grow and catch. With low income they have little import and export and do not affect the world ecological system as much as nations who have large import and export, such as the United States. The United States on the other hand has a large footprint because it is an industrial country with a high level of income, with the higher level of income there is a much greater demand for goods from other countries. The U.S. is the world’s largest importer and the third largest exporter (World’s 10) having a tremendous impact just in those factors alone. Importing goods means we are affecting other parts of the world by consuming the resources of that particular area. Also, since we are consuming more goods, we also affect the pollution of not only the originating areas but our own, we generate more waste and this waste affects our soil and air. Since we are a country of wealth and power we need to use it to help save our planet for ourselves and future generations, by setting and implementing standards in sustainability. Based on the data in the table, average per capita income does affect ecological footprints but the major factor according to Global Footprint Network, is the nation’s consumption based on adding or subtracting imports...
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...The rapid increase of population is very threatening to the limited carrying capacity of our earth. Our ecological footprint already disastrous will become much more detrimental with the staggering population growth.1 Our ecological footprint is largely comprised of three main elements of consumption: food, wood, and land. However, components such as energy consumption also need to be accounted for.2 Food availability, to a great extent, determines the carrying capacity for every population of species. The growth of industrial agriculture has caused a tremendous increase in food production around the world.3 Be that as it may, these practises consist of mechanization and fertilization both of which are dependent on petroleum. The United States uses 12% of its oil intake on food production alone. As the amount of oil in the world begins to decrease, so will the production of food.4 As Thomas Robert Malthus quotes in his An Essay on the Principle of population, “... the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.” 5 Malthus explains that the production of food cannot keep up with the rapidly increasing population.6 Wood consumption includes all the paper, packaging, wood furniture and firewood that we use day after day. 7 This part of the ecological footprint also needs to include the wood products that an individual uses in the systems and organizations that support them. Today, the world’s consumption of ...
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...My Ecological Footprint Report Introduction The objective of the Ecological Footprint (EF) Calculator has allowed me to calculate overall impact on natural resources and to explore opportunities for changing my current lifestyle choices. It has also made me understanding of the linkages between environment, economy, society, and inter and intra-generational equity that relate each other. As our economy is generated by the goods and services developed from natural, social, built/financial capitals, this calculator highlights me the importance of how my daily decision-making can effect largely on the environment and my consumption is overtaken the ability of the earth to sustain inter and intra generations' life cycles. We including humans and other species have only one planet on the earth to survive well. Currently we have an ecological overshoot of human demands on natural assets which have exceeded the Earth's regenerative capacity. (Global Footprint Network, 2012) There are needs for precautions and remedial actions on increased consumptions over natural capital given by the planet's limited natural resources and ecological degradation. To avoid this upcoming effects, we all have our own individual's responsibility to reduce our impact and go GREEN from small to big chances which require our daily informed choices, planning, management, strategy and investment. Moreover, we should set realistic reduction targets and meet them for inter and intra-generations. The report...
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...Name:________________________________ Cornerstone 1: Biology Carbon Footprint Exit Ticket Directions: Compare the pairs of mitigation actions by filling in with ‘>’ (greater than), ‘<’ (less than) or ‘=’ (about the same) in terms of how many tons of CO2 does each action save. 1. Moving from a house to an apartment _______ Changing to energy efficient light bulbs 2. Reducing two loads of laundry per week. _______ Starting to turn off the TV when not watching it. 3. Stop using air conditioning in some of the rooms during the summer. _______ Switching from a large SUV to a midsized car. 4. Flying in an airplane one less time per year. _______ Eating one less time a week at a fast food restaurant. 5. Starting to recycle plastic. _______...
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...Dhurim Gjureci The Measure of Ecological Footprint in Hopes to Reduce Human Consumption on the Earths Resources To: Benjamin Bradshaw GEOG*2210 (DE) S14 Environment and Resources From: Dhurim Gjureci 0678764 Thursday, July 17, 2014 The Measure of Ecological Footprint in Hopes to Reduce Human Consumption on the Earths Resources 1 GEOG 2210 S14 Dhurim Gjureci The Measure of Ecological Footprint in Hopes to Reduce Human Consumption on the Earths Resources By: Dhurim Gjureci Table of Contents What is Ecological Footprint? How is Ecological Footprint Measured? The Current State of the Earth Canada’s Ecological Footprint The Importance of Knowing Our Ecological Footprint Reduction Efforts Conclusion Bibliography ...
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...ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT Mohammad Khanbashi Managing for Sustainability In 2007, the Earth’s people used about 50% more natural resources than the planet could regenerate.1 A measure of the impact humans have on the environment is called an ecological footprint. A country’s ecological footprint is the sum of all the cropland, grazing land, forest and fishing grounds required to produce the food, fiber and timber it consumes, to absorb the wastes emitted when it uses energy and to provide space for infrastructure. WWF’s Living Planet Report 2010 found that in 2007 the global ecological footprint was 18 billion hectares. This means that the Earth’s people needed 18 billion hectares of productive land in order to provide each and every person with the resources they required to support their lifestyle 1 . Living Planet Report, WWF, GFN and ZSL, 2010 and to absorb the wastes they produced. The bad news is that there were only 11.9 billion global hectares available. In Australia, we’re consuming more than three times our fair share of the planet’s natural resources. If we continue these consumption patterns, we will face an ecological overshoot that will have far-reaching future consequences for people and nature. Australians have one of the largest environmental footprints per capita in the world, requiring 6.8 global hectares per person. If all people consumed the Earth’s resources the way that we do in Australia, it would take the resources of more...
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...How many of y’all have heard the story about the man and the footprints? I’m sure a lot of you have but if you haven’t here it is: “One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand; one belonged to him, and the other to the Lord. When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path of his life, there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times in his life. This really bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it. “Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, you’d walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don’t understand why, when I needed you most you would leave me.” The Lord replied, “Most precious, precious child, I love you and would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.”” This is a powerful reminder of how great our God is. When we decide to follow Jesus, we are saying that we will lean on him and we trust that he will be there to carry us through the hard times. As humans, it is our natural instinct to be in control of our lives, to make everything work, to think we can do it alone. We need to...
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...Nikki Jones CRJS 404 AIU - Unit 2 - Individual Project Justice For Joe September 2014 Abstract A town holds a bar in that bar there are people drinking. Three customers who have a past in the area of an old relationship and a new relationship involving the same woman. The three people heave problem; this leads to quarrel things get heated and out of control. The customer crowd around to see the action. A Small Town holds the working people who like to kick back and enjoy some adult beverages at the well-known hang out Turn-a-Round Lounge. This is a public bar as any public place there are can be great time and also drama. That are time when drama goes too far and people are harmed on this night harm turned in to a murder. At one time, Joe had a relationship with women named Michelle their relationship ended. Michelle started a relationship with a man named Sam. Joe completed his working day and stopped in for a beer. There was a nice crowd in the bar of 20 people. Joe and Sam began to a verbal conflict; this grew to be a physical fight, and then Sam pulled his knife on Joe stabbing his chest and slit his aorta. When a fight breaks out the natural reaction to the public to gather around and see what is happening, this is the same reaction that people have to a car accident. (Park, 2010). The after effect also followed once the fight was finished in this case Joe was no longer able to fight; everyone disappeared, besides a select few. The bartender was a Good Samaritan...
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...2010). The after effect also followed once the fight was finished in this case Joe was no longer able to fight; everyone disappeared, besides a select few. The bartender was a Good Samaritan and applied pressure to Joe's wound and performed CPR in the effort to keep him alive until the EMT’s could take over. The Bartender felt the ethical need to attempt to continue or save Joes life (American Heart Association, 2006). Of those who scatter from the bar 2 of the individuals were Sam and Michelle. They personally may have left the scene. However, they did leave pieces of them self in ways of traceable DNA and apparent track of their personal known they were there. Of the remind proof that Michelle and Sam had been there found was bloody footprints a total of 3 to be exact. The bar's parking lot is not paved there for it is dirt so everyone who drove left tire tracks. Meaning Sam and Michelle left their foot prints in the dirt as well as tire tracks in the dirt. The couple vanished quickly leaving their tracks simple to find. The police are able to prove there was an investigation to take beyond the bar Sam, Joe, and Michelle were definitely at the scene and that Joe was dead to get the judge’s approval for a search warrant. The search warrant granted the entry of Michelle's...
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...Carbon footprint Name Institutional Affiliation According to the carbon calculator, my greenhouse gas emission was estimated to be 27 tons per year (Lynas, & HarperCollins, 2007). Out of this emission, the amount of carbon dioxide produced per year was 83.3%. This percentage of carbon dioxide is mostly contributed by home energy. The high amounts of greenhouse gases produced is due to the usage of hydrocarbons in heating and lighting where an estimate of 2.5 tons of carbon dioxide are produced. In addition, my vehicle emits an extra estimate of 1.4 tons of carbon dioxide for 30 miles in a week. My consumption of meat has an impact of 4.1 tons of carbon dioxide per year. All these personal activities made me realize the personal impact an individual can have to the environment (Bishop, 2008). From the learning outcome, I really feel I have a role to play in the environment. This is because I was not aware of the harm I was causing to the environment in contributing to greenhouse effects. I now appreciate the importance of keeping low personal carbon footprint (Bishop, 2008). After calculating my carbon footprint, I realized I had an impact on the environment. This impact is much more than I am supposed to and hence the need to try my level best to lower the amount of carbon dioxide I contribute to the environment (Lynas, & HarperCollins, 2007). Part of my life contributing the most carbon is lighting and heating where I mostly use hydrocarbons for such purposes...
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...some video analysis done by Iiboshi and his team, new information can now be plugged into the method for drawing the path of the high jumper's footprints on the ground. The original article by Dapena on this subject was in issue #131 of Track Coach. From this I gather elite jumpers have an unusual sense of finding the right spot to jump from. No matter what the differences are ... they get the runup to work. It is similar to Finnish javelin throwers, who may differ in the first part of the run, but who all seem to know what to do in the last two steps. The path of the footprints in a high jump runup can be idealized as a straight line perpendicular to the bar, followed by a circular arc which ends at the takeoff (Figure I). Such a path is de fined by the position of the takeoff foot (its x and y coordinates), the angle between the bar and the final direction of the footprints' path (f), and the radius of the curve (r). A method for drawing the path of the footprints on the ground was described in previous papers. (See Dapena, et aI., 1993; Dapena, 1995a.) However, the numerical values needed for the implementation of this method were based on limited information. Recent work by Iiboshi, et al. (1994) provides data that can help us to improve the design of the runup. They used a special video analysis technique to measure the footprint locations of the top eight men and seven of the top eight women in the high jump finals of the 1991 World Championships. The last successful jump...
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...The term ‘carbon footprint’ has become tremendously popular over the last few years and is now in widespread use across the media. With climate change high up on the political and corporate agenda, carbon footprint calculations are in strong demand. Numerous approaches have been proposed to provide estimates, ranging from basic online calculators to sophisticated life-cycle analysis or input-output-based methods and tools. Despite its ubiquitous use however, there is an apparent lack of academic definitions of what exactly a ‘carbon footprint’ is meant to be. The scientific literature is surprisingly void of clarifications, despite the fact that countless studies in energy and ecological economics that could have claimed to measure a ‘carbon footprint’ have been published over decades. This report explores the apparent discrepancy between public and academic use of the term ‘carbon footprint’ and suggests a scientific definition based on commonly accepted accounting principles and modelling approaches. It addresses methodological question such as system boundaries, completeness, comprehensiveness, units and robustness of the indicator. >>> Processes causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions benefit humans by providing consumer goods and services. This benefit, and hence the responsibility for emissions, varies by purpose or consumption category and is unevenly distributed across and within countries. We quantify greenhouse gas emissions associated with the final consumption...
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...Special report│Carbon management Towards a carbon footprint sustainable supply chain As the planet is heats up, so do mandates for manufacturers to reduce their carbon emissions. While manufacturers have been doing their bit in their manufacturing units, their carbon efficient initiatives has ceased to become a mere CSR activity, a movement, or a political leaning. It has transformed into business and economic viability. Today, manufacturers are pushed out of their production silos to consider the entire supply chain and look for new opportunities to erase the carbon footprints effectively – from sourcing to production, to distribution and product afterlife. The need today is for manufacturers to integrate an effective carbon reduction strategy into supply chain to reduce footprint, enhance their corporate image and reap the cost advantage. Attempting to please the ecological police with environmental initiatives and stakeholders with improved savings upon energy consumption, manufacturing companies have come a long way in their energy efficient initiatives. They have come out of their manufacturing facilities’ silos and have started to take an integrated view of their supply chains to erase the most villainous presence of the ‘carbon footprints’. Although manufacturing companies traditionally limited their supply chain optimisation vision to minimising costs to partners in the supply chain and maximising service to the customers, the current scenario is quickly moving...
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