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Sustainable Development Three Examples
1,392 wordsCan Natural Step promote sustainability in Organisations? There are three examples where companies have used The Natural Step and the outcomes prove whether it promotes sustainability. The examples shown are Stena Metall AB, an industrial recycling, trading and shipping company. The second example is Scandic Hotels and example three is Interface, a manufacturer of commercial floor covering. The Natural Step is a non- profit environmental education organisation with sight of the socially and ecol...
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Pollution And The Advance Of Technology
1,196 wordsTechnology is a major part of everyone's life. Everyday we encounter technology at home, school and at work. We use this technology to better our lives. But do we really? With the advancing of technology also comes the issue of polluting the world we live in. We take the automobile for granted, but as we use it, we contribute to the growing pollution problem. Now in the year 2000, car companies have recognized the pollution problem, and have advanced their own technology to help make a differenc...
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Fresh Kills Landfill Sanitary Landfill
1,561 wordsWhat is the largest construction you can think of? Does a landfill come to your mind? Probably not. One of the largest buildings on the face of the earth is the Pyramid of the sun, constructed in Mexico and covers approximately thirty million cubic feet of space. Now if you think that is big just imagine an even larger structure: a landfill that occupies over seventy million cubic feet of biosphere, we are talking about the Durham Road landfill, outside San Francisco. It is a sad monument, indee...
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Suffering And Death Money To Buy
1,535 wordsPeter Singer is well known for issues on animal rights and hunger. He proclaims three points in his argument for us to have a moral obligation to assist people that are in poverty. When somebody speaks of the hunger issue and absolute poverty, one must have a general idea what absolute poverty is. Absolute poverty is basically people, cultures, states, etc that can't make enough money or basically can't feed the mouths of those in their "society" and can't provide adequate medical care, and shel...
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Clear Cutting Fossil Fuel
1,541 wordsThe uses and applications of paper and paper products are virtually limitless. In addition to the societal needs of paper for recording and disseminating of information, and for packaging materials, the United States pulp and paper industry employs more than 200, 000 people, produces nine million tons of pulp, and 26 billion newspapers, books and magazines annually. Though U. S. mills represent only 15 % of paper mills worldwide, they produce 36 % of the world's paper (Smook, 1992). "Exports of ...
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Environmental Protection Agency Paper Industry
1,584 words... tat requirements of birds, reptiles, and amphibians in 30, 000 acres of industrial forests managed by International Paper Company in South Carolina. As part of the study, the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and Clemson University are focusing on how the forest-management practices affect the habitat and diversity of amphibians and reptiles. Other participants include the National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement, the U. S. Forest Service Center for Forested Wetl...
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Tampa Bay Treatment Plant
1,356 wordsThe water shortage problem has affected all of us in one way or another. Either through the mandatory restrictions or the increased price of water, or even the ever increasing occurrence of sinkholes, the evidence of a water shortage is everywhere. Since we need water to survive, and there are no alternatives to support life on this planet, we must find a way to keep up with our ever increasing water demand. This essay reviews the water shortage problem that is occurring in Florida. The problem ...
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Junk Mail Postal Service
1,488 wordsIt is another Wednesday morning, and I am again sitting at the front desk of my dormitory at 9 am. The US Postal Service just delivered today's mail, and the other Wednesday-morning desk worker and I are preparing to search for names, check mailbox numbers, sort the mail, and place it into mailboxes. I hate working the mail shift, but I do it because I get paid nine dollars an hour for relatively brainless work. Even though I lose a few hours of sleep, I get some good laughs and entertainment in...
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Flexible Foam Bonding Copyright 2001 Web Polyurethane
827 wordsOriginally two German chemists named Worth, in 1848, and Hentschel, in 1884 made the first Isocyanate's, one of the building blocks of Polyurethane. Originally polyurethane was developed for military use by Otto Bayer, in the late 1930 's, and was the first to make polyurethane commercially available. Molecular Structure Polyurethane is a polymer that consists of repeating units [ ROOCNH R' ]n. 'R' can represent a different alkyl group, which is obtained by removing a hydrogen atom from a hydroc...
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Life On Earth Sense Of Community
1,026 wordsCertainly, DevCon needs to deploy all the resources available in order to develop the sustainability strategy that would appeal the most to those who are going to be evaluating the strategies proposed by various organizations. DevCon has a great goodwill among the citizens of Toronto, therefore it would certainly gain the support of the population at large, and therefore some innovative techniques and strategies should definitely be introduced to win the bidding. Since the strategy should defini...
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One Of The Main York Times
1,623 wordsStrategic Analysis (Marketing) The New York Times Company is one of the largest and the most well respected media company in the world. Its greatest advantages are brand name, size and reputation. These are its strengths, and the company is constantly increasing them by developing technological capabilities and by controlling its own inputs. The company publishes The New York Times (which has 1. 1 million circulations), The International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe and other daily newspaper...
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Wal Mart Target Corporation
1,027 wordsTarget Corporation Target Corporation was among first American retailing companies to implement the innovative business strategies, which would have an environmental friendliness as one of their main features. Company also tries to do its share in helping communities on the local level, because Targets top managers rightfully think that creating a positive public image is a necessary component, when it comes to insuring commercial competitiveness. The brief description of the principles, upon wh...
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Vanishing Forests In Brazil Part 1
2,180 wordsVANISHING FORESTS IN BRAZIL: SLASH, BURN AND GONE INTRODUCTION One of the major issues confronting the world today is the environmental impact of deforestation. For a very long time, people have depended on forests to supply their primary needs food and shelter, for instance and up until the present time, the forests are still considered as an important resource. The earliest deforestation may have been the burning of the forest to create openings for wildlife and later, chiefly as a result of c...
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Toxic Wastes Hazardous Waste
2,282 wordsGARBAGE: TRIM THAT TONNE TABLE OF CONTENTS Preliminary Consideration A. Inherent implications in the situation 3 B. Possible causes 4 2. Identify the Problem A. Ten different perspectives of looking at the problem 4 B. Best expression of the problem 4 3. Research the Problem A. Sources to use in order to gain knowledge of the problem 5 4. Range of Possible Solutions and Refining the Best one. A. Ten possible solutions 6 5. Justification for best solution. 7 B. Possible objections to solution 8 C...
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Heavy Metals American Cities
1,775 wordsSludge Part 1. A. Municipal sewage facilities main task is to purify polluted water from great many sources, like homes, businesses and public drains. In order to do that, they filter out the dirty water and than they discharge it, once its purified. The material remaining after the process is collected, it is usually referred to as sludge. The different characteristics of sludge determine the best ways that need to be applied to get rid of it. Sludge can be used as fertilizer in right amounts; ...
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Reduce The Amount Nitrogen Oxides
1,778 wordsPollution The water pollution is a major environmental issue that US government as well as its citizens are concerned with. The effects of water pollution are varied. They include poisonous drinking water, poisonous food animals (due to these organisms having been exposed to toxins from the environment over their life spans), unbalanced river and lake ecosystems that can no longer support full biological diversity, deforestation from acid rain, and many other effects. These effects are, of cours...
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Public Works Public Transportation
968 wordsPublic Works Every city and town has a special organization or a department, responsible for public works. The main function of such institution is to provide the residents of the community with different public services, which may include street maintenance, wastewater management, recycling, traffic engineering and parking control, public security services, stormwater control and disposal, and a range of others. Organized and proper carrying out of public works is essential and vital for well-b...
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Life On Earth Sense Of Community
2,305 wordsSustainability Strategy Certainly, DevCon needs to deploy all the resources available in order to develop the sustainability strategy that would appeal the most to those who are going to be evaluating the strategies proposed by various organizations. DevCon has a great goodwill among the citizens of Toronto, therefore it would certainly gain the support of the population at large, and therefore some innovative techniques and strategies should definitely be introduced to win the bidding. Since th...
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Forest Lands Forest Management
1,605 wordsFORESTAL TYPES AND THEIR IMPORTANCE TO MANKIND The average person creates an infinite amount of thoughts per minute. Within this vast amount of processed information, a common American proceeds with his daily routine, not giving any thought to survival without forests. In the event of a possible forestry depletion, life would dramatically change for the worse. The importance of trees and its products is rarely given its deserved respect. Taken for granted by most, this significant element of our...
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Fresh Kills Landfill Municipal Solid Waste
1,155 wordsWaste is a problem, a problem that is on the increase. Europe produces one hundred and thirty million tons of household garbage, 324 million tons of solid industrial waste and 30 million tons of hazardous waste every year. Disposing of this waste is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive, and many countries are considering burning municipal solid waste to produce energy as an alternative to traditional methods of disposal such as landfill. The most important reason for which landfills are...
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