...Carry reusable shopping bags at least some of the time, and save on plastic and paper bags. Waste less. There are hundreds of opportunities to nurture a zero waste culture. Use both sides of a paper, carry your own mugs to coffee shops and bring your own bags when you go shopping, or get printer cartridges refilled instead of replacing them. Compost food scraps, avoid bottled water and other packaged products, upgrade computers rather than buying new ones... the list is endless! Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Make it a habit to reduce the things we need or we consume. Purchase only things that we only need and eat only what you can. Let us do our share not to be part of the problem or should I say part of the garbage problem. Reuse all the things that can still be repaired/fixed or those things that are still okay. Recycle things to conserve our resources, collect old newspapers, books, magazines, used papers, bottles (plastic and glass), and any other things that you could sell in junkyards. There is money in garbage and at the same time we’re doing our part in recycling process. Be responsible with your garbage, dispose them properly. Also try to use segregation scheme with your trashes, separate those decomposable from those that are not. You may utilize a compost pit to house all of your organic trashes and eventually use this as your fertilizer for your backyard garden or to your plants. Do the traditional way of helping to conserve our environment by virtue of avoiding...
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...Debt Financial Planning After a Death Family budgeting is all about choosing between the options available to us, including those that help us to stay out of debt. One of those important options we have includes creating a family budget that meets our individual needs. Unfortunately, for many of us, budgets are a reality check that we try to avoid. For example, our family budget might tell us that we make enough money each month to pay that electric bill, but we need to give up going out to eat twice a week, or eliminate a habit of buying such expensive clothing. These are the types of decisions we are talking about. Creating a Family Budget If you've been paying bills for at least 12 months, then creating a family budget is a simple process. You know by now how much you spend each month on food, clothing, and entertainment. Creating a family budget is all about pulling that information together, and organizing it into a form that you can analyze. If you're looking to create a family budget,...
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...Recycling Everyone can take part of save the planet. One of the most contributing ways of saving the planet is by recycling. These three words reduce, reuse, and recycle is talking about how people handle waste, which currently is a big issue in the United States. In today’s society, landfills are overflowing causing serious issues that need to be addressed. Knowing how to address them and how to correct the problem can be an easy process if taught the proper way to do it. Recycling allows today’s society to process used materials, which reduce the consumption of raw materials, energy, pollution, greenhouse emissions, and the need for conventional waste disposal. Recycling is one of the ultimate solutions to reduce the amount of waste that is constantly dumped into our landfills. The United States is the number one trash producing country in the world. (www.nbci.nlm.nih.gov, 2010) The United States have environmentalist groups that are really pushing for stricter laws regarding recycling. These environmentalist groups do not only want to make it a choice but demand that every American household must recycle in order to reduce the amount of waste that is entering American landfills. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 32.1% of solid waste is recycled, 13.6% is incinerated, and 54.3% end up in landfills, yet some believe that approximately 90% of all solid waste is recyclable. (Chase, Dominick, Trepa, Bailey,& Friedman, 2009) (www.lwvmd.org) Solid waste...
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...use of a rainwater collection system. This will allow the tower to no longer rely on the water company and over series of years, save quite an amount of water which in turn will save money. The main goal of this proposal is to research and present feasible goals to the managers of Tower 400. That can be followed up on and eventually put into practice to make The Renaissance Center’s Tower 400 a leader in green technology. In regards to obtaining the Platinum LEED certification, a possible 24% of the points can be achieved through the use of proper rainwater harvesting. Some of the points can come from, implementing water reduction equipment. Such as low flow...
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...What are we doing to protect our surroundings? Garbage heaps are increasing and disposal of waste seems an alarming task. People are becoming insensitive towards plants and animals thereby harming our ecosystem. As a student, what have you done to protect our environment? Do you know why we need to conserve our wildlife? We must make a conscious effort to conserve the world's plants and animals. Plants are essential for our own survival. Plants use the sun's energy to make food—a process called photosynthesis. Therefore plants are the first important link in the food chain of which humans also form a part. During photosynthesis, oxygen is released and oxygen is vital for the existence of life itself. Animals need plants in order to survive, but plants also need animals. Animals and plants are therefore delicately bound together. The removal of even one species of animal/plant can drastically alter the ecosystem. Isn't this frightening? Our own survival may be threatened if we cause too much disruption to the natural processes that occur on this Earth. Destruction of rain forests, for example, has reduced the local rainfall. A further reduction in rainfall will increase desert areas. We need to preserve our wildlife as well. We use many plants and animals to supply us with food, materials, chemicals, etc. If we continue to exploit these species to a point where they cannot replenish themselves, they will no longer be available to us. Gradually if we manage to destroy most...
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...the world there are issues with our water resources, with the way we conserve, and preserve the resources. The public needs to be more aware of this situation from their local governments. The increase in human population each year will increase consumption, and increase standards of living and pollution. We as humans need water to live on and is a very essential part of not only our lives, but the lives of all animals, and plant life. Water is also the existence for no-living existence. We would all cease to exist with this clean clear substance that we seem to take advantage of and seem to think with just a turn off a faucet we are getting a large abundance of for free. Non-living and Living Factors: The constant new building that is being done appears to be a major factor that is affecting our water resources. [pic]It also affects it contaminating the run-off, which in turn affects our drinking water. These disease causing contaminants enter our systems that are in our water from[pic] untreated sewers, septic tanks, boats and storm drains that are not properly cleaned. Water borne ailments can cause hookworms, intestinal parasites, typhoid fever, Amoebiasis diarrhea, and numerous other bacterial and viral diseases. Water that has been polluted can cause earaches, conjunctivitis, upper respiratory infections skin rashes, hepatitis, gastroenteritis, vomiting, diarrhea, inflammation of the brain and other ailments. These types of water borne disease are more prevalent in...
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...when choosing a campsite, but the most important factors or steps to follow can be summarized as follows; 1. Camping place The first step is to choose a camping site. This should be a place which has been used by previous campers, because you will need to establish a site and make the place habitable for camping. By using previously occupied campsite, one is able to save energy and time for other activities because previous campers would have made the site habitable. It is also important for to remember that a new campsite might not be recognized by officials, and when disaster happens, the officials might not be able to alert or reach you to help. 2. Accessibility The second most important factor is accessibility, it is important to ask yourself how you plan to go camping, whether it is a drive up the campsite or it is accessible via a foot trail. If it is via a foot trail, choose a campsite with half a mile or less walk. 3. Views or attraction The third factor that is important to consider is, what kind of surroundings you expect, consider how it looks, whether it has good views or things that you will enjoy 4. Water The fourth step is to find out if your selected campsite has access to clean water or not, if it does not, take all the water you will need. It is important to have sufficient water especially summer time, to avoid dehydration, and keep cool. 5. Firewood The fifth step is to check if the camp site has enough wood for making campfire...
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...Do your kids play with water? do you play wuth water? then you must and your kids most not know to conserve water. Conserving water water is easy to help to help the environment we live in. It helps us because it gives us save alot of money and it also helps us save the world. Saving water is so important. Without water humans can not live, without water plant and animal cannot live.Water is known as the saviar of life ( McBride). Water is the most important everything in this world. Without water we wouldnt even exist, and the planet will not exist. Humans, aniamals and planets can connot survive without without it ( Santa). We depend on fresh water, everything we do requares water. We use it for cooking, drinking, cleaning, yardlands, washing our clothes, and all kinds of things. How would the world be without water? Water is is very important to these planet and we need it to survive. As you can see that 72 percent of Earth is covered in water, but 97 percent of that water is salty ocean water and is not good for drinking (Pete). Is the salt water that can only be comsumed by only humans and other species, after undergoing desalinations, that is not a good process. Meaning people need to start using less water and save as much water as they can. In Africa, water is limited due to the contamination. It seems like we have alot of water so that is why some of us waste it. Only 1 percent of the earth's water is available for drinking water. Two percent is frozen...
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...Introduction Water pollution can come from a number of different sources. Many solids, liquids and gaseous substances can cause pollution if they enter the water environment. Common pollutants include chemicals, oil and waste products. Even substances such as milk, which pose no risk to human health, can cause serious harm to the water environment. You must have authorisation if you discharge anything other than clean, uncontaminated water to surface waters or groundwater. Surface waters include rivers, reservoirs and canals, and make up a small percentage of fresh water reserves. Groundwater is all water below the water table. Groundwater makes up the largest available reserve of fresh water. This guide outlines the main causes of water pollution, and when businesses need to apply for surface water or groundwater authorisations. It also describes how to prevent pollution incidents and gives tips on how to store and handle materials responsibly. How can one go about spelling the importance of water in our lives? When we look around and see how water pollution threatens to destroy the Earth, what is our reaction to it? Indifference, perhaps? It is due to this indifference that the world as we know it will soon end. Through a long-drawn, really slow process of torment and torture. It's not just water pollution that spells danger for us, but since water is one of the most crucial resources, without which the very survival of all life on earth will cease to exist, it becomes...
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...should all be informed on why going green benefits almost everything and anything. III. Credibility material: I recently have gone green and it has not only effected my life, but the life of those around me. IV. Thesis/Preview: Going green will definitely make a difference Body I. Main point #1 There are many steps we are going to need to take to help prevent the Earth from being destroyed A. By not going green we have led to global warming, we burn fossil fuels and other things that have caused an increase in carbon dioxide. 1. Landfills are all over the place and filled with ridiculously amounts of trash, we humans throw out tons of trash daily. It takes years and year to decompose some items that are thrown into the trash. 2. Simple things can make a difference, such as, making sure to always turn off lights and electronics when you leave a room. B. By doing this you'll be saving electricity 1. Recycling paper while being in school, plastic after finishing your lunch, aluminum after an arts and crafts project, almost anything can be recycled. You can also buy recycled projects. a. Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 380 gallons of oil, 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space and 4,000 kilowatts of energy-enough to power the average U.S. home for six months b. (Driving less and carpooling also taking buses and trains can help the procedures to recycling) 2. The planet is effected a. Cars, trucks and buses that transport goods and...
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...on the environment. Thanks to sustainable solutions, hotels going green are making steps toward efficient use of energy, water and materials while saving money and still providing quality services. So, what are the sustainable solutions green lodging has adopted to meet new eco tourism expectations? Here are the top 3 green initiatives taken by some hotels chains that aim to harmonize tourism and environmental sustainability: Low Water Consumption: Water use is an important cost for hotels. In many developing countries hotel water use may impact the water supplies of the local people. Water-efficient practices can through technologies and proper systems can deliver equal or better service while saving water. Numerous hotels have identified where water use was excessive and have developed sustainable solutions to reduce their water consumption and have obtained economic benefits: For water conservation, low-flow shower heads, faucet aerators, and automatic flushing toilets conserve water Another target for hotels is reducing water consumption in washing machines. Linen reuse programs are a great option for water assessment: It’s hard to imagine the number of towels and sheets which have been used only once and that have to be washed every day in all the hotels in the world, whereas when guests are at home, few wash their towels after one use or change their sheets every day. A simple recycled linen card...
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...and fermentation are anaerobic processes, which means that they do not require the presence of oxygen to happen. There are two types of fermentation alcoholic and lactic acid. Both this types of fermentation require such reactants as NADH and pyruvic acid. Fermentation is important to numerous living organisms, such as bacteria, and yeast to obtain energy. Alcoholic fermentation is significant for human beings; it has been used to produce alcoholic beverages and many other items. Lactic acid is waste of bacteria and is used to produce cheeses, yogurt, sour cream, etc (Levine, Miller, 2010). Sugars, as source of food, impact the speed of fermentation. In this lad, glucose, lactose, and fructose are being investigated, with glucose in 30 C water as a control group. Hypothesis: Fructose will have a faster rate than glucose or lactose. Procedure Independent Variable: Lactose, fructose, glucose Dependent Variable: Fermentation rate Control: Glucose in 30 C 1) Connect a Gas Pressure Sensor to Channel 1 and Temperature Probe to Channel 2 of the data-collection interface. 2) Connect the plastic tubing to the Gas Pressure Sensor....
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...on global warming. Most people are shocked when they see the amount of CO2 their activities create! If you personally want to contribute to stop global warming, the calculation and constant monitoring of your personal carbon footprint is essential. Here are some of the ways which can help to abate the carbon footprint: • Go native: Use native plant species to landscape around your home or business. The plants will probably grow better in a familiar environment, and the plants may also get shipped a shorter distance to get to your local nursery which will ultimately save fuel. Use organic soil when planting because it's made using more eco-friendly methods.Green plants are a good way to offset carbon. • Switch water heaters to vacation mode: Most water heaters have a "vacation" setting for when you are away from home for an extended period of time. Switching to that "away" mode still keeps the water warm, but...
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...anywhere, but where they may occur the damages could be a lot harder to recover from. Third world countries suffer tremendous casualties and destruction, without the money or even first aid to help those in need. A prime example of disaster in a third world country would be the, large magnitude earthquake in Haiti where unstable buildings and unawareness took the lives of copious people. After the quakes many suffered from injury and needed medical attention, however the nation could not supply these medical needs. However, there are organizations such as the American Red Cross and Project cure that provide the much needed supplies that are critical to help save lives. Supplying a wide variety of life saving essentials, these disaster relief specialists, receive most supplies form fundraising events. Gathering supplies needed from simple donations such as Band-Aids and Neosporin can go a long way to help these nations while recovering from such destruction. With disaster relief teams such as the American Red Cross, and Project Cure, third world nations are aided with lifesaving supplies that are made possible by fundraising for these non-profit organizations. Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, was hit by powerful earthquakes, causing many to flee what they used to call home. Over nine thousand people have died and more than 22,000 are injured. The extensive damage and amounts of those...
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...ISP 203A Concept Redesign Extra Credit Step 1: Hydrologic Cycle Step 2: 1. Third Grade Student = Bill Nye Episode 47 (The Water Cycle) 2. Grand/parent or other non expert = NASA’s video explaining the water cycle 3. A professional = "Water Vapor, the Hydrological Cycle, and Climate Change" by Isaac M. Held, Senior Research Scientist, head of Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics Group, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA (Princeton, NJ); Lecturer with rank of Professor in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University. (Lecture presented by Harvard University) Step 3: Teaching the hydrologic cycle, also known as the “water cycle” can be very simple to very complicated. I know when I was in grade school I learned the water cycle mainly from my science teacher, and from these posters that were always posted up around the room. As I got older, and my mom became an elementary teacher, I got ahold of a few of these posters. Me being interested in science and teaching took these home and tried to teach the material to anyone who was willing to listen. My mom has many stories of myself trying to teach her and my grandma the water cycle, solar system, etc. One thing I noticed is that my mom understood everything perfectly, while my grandmother didn’t nor did she care. This experience lead me to come up with what mediums to use to teach a third grade student, a grandparent...
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