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In terms of energy efficiency, Sustainability Victoria has the objective of increasing energy efficiency for selected stakeholders not only in commercial buildings but also in households. This objective has ensured that more commercial buildings around Victoria use smarter energy and households are buying energy-efficient hardware.
Climate Change and Energy Solutions have been a leading wave of force that seeks to boost environmental conservation as well as energy generation. It targets to improve communities via energy production and at the same time conserve the environment and as a result regulating climate change.
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Solar energy can sustain the current population and still meet the future demand of the people. Although the technology has not fully exploited solar energy, signs of progress have been made especially for power storage. Moreover, solar energy plays an important role in the conservation of environmental quality and health of the users.
The article mentions that Anemone Buttercup only exists at mountain tops with very low temperatures. Climate change on the other hand increases the temperature causing the ice to melt and mountain tops to be warm. Therefore, impacting Anemone Buttercup negatively thus causing it to move to another position or extinction.
Global warming is a phenomenon characterized by increased temperatures on the earth’s surface that is caused by too much increase in emissions of carbon dioxide into the earth’s atmosphere. This gas forms a layer-like blanket that traps the heat waves that would otherwise have escaped from the earth’s surface and thereby causes an increase in the average temperatures on earth.
It is crucial to taste the water being used in schools and not at the sources of such waters because the lead levels change at different stages of the water system. Testing of the lead level is crucial as it gives the opportunity for the evaluation of plumbing materials and finally coming up with rightful remedies to curb the rise in the lead level in schools and non-residential houses.
Albeit, natural disasters cannot be prevented, their deleterious consequences can be mitigated via the employment of up-to-date disaster management. It is vitally important to have in place leadership, coordination, communication, and the participation of the local stakeholders for providing an adequate response.
Disaster preparedness depicts how fast and ready a person is when faced with a natural catastrophic event or emergency. The entire emergency department at the community level and at the national level should focus on improving ability as a nation by providing resources that aid in the rescue mission if any tragic event occurs.
I have focussed on how I can survive with little food and still maintain the needed nutrition level in case a disaster strikes. As mentioned in the reflective essay, disaster preparedness can be partially realized through readiness measures that accelerate disaster response as well as recovery and lead to timely and rapid aid.
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Literature search has been done on the effects of cyclone disasters in Dhofar region in South Oman. This raises an emphasis for a study to be carried out on this issue. There is a severe scarcity of data on cyclone disasters in Dhofa region. The project investigates the effects of cyclones together with the mitigating measures for reducing cyclone disasters in Dhofar region in South Oman.
Events of tremendous magnitude that impact the environment and society negatively are known as disasters. Wassenhove and Van (2006) define disaster as a crisis situation that causes extensive damage, beyond the scope of recovery. Disaster can come in any form, at any time and anywhere, and can be natural as well as man-made.
Nearly every household depends on clean water for a variety of purposes. This would mean that as the water gets polluted, at one point in time the contaminants enter the food chains of humans. Some of these chemicals of emerging concern have been associated with a variety of adverse effects when they are in the human body.
There are a limited number of bulk petrol storage facilities in the United Kingdom that are important in playing a significant role as an energy source. The existence of these facilities has caused the UK to develop energy structures that are easily influenced by both the interaction and domestic energy situations.
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Drought is therefore considered in terms of lack of rainfall or very low levels of rainfall for a period of 3 months. This is considering that the lack of rainfall for a period of three months may also be during the season when rain is expected. Rainfall deficiency is important in Australia during the process of defining drought.
Urban stormwater runoff occurs abundantly hence the increase in water pollution. The increased impervious surface and loading of toxic contaminants from urban areas toward the receiving water bodies make the largest water pollution surveyed in the U.S. lakes (United States Environmental Protection Agency).
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a young country that came into being in 1971. Abu Dhabi serves as its capital, and the other emirates concerned are those (Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain, each of them ruled by an absolute monarch as they, and their predecessors, have done since ancient times.
In developed countries, all generations consider environmental protection as their responsibility a practice that Vietnam is to imitate if it is to reduce environmental impacts posed by atmospheric pollution. The government should encourage the citizens to live green, clean, and denounce activities contributing to atmospheric pollution (Seah, 2004, 261).
In keeping with the narrative of an ever-changing world, London has recently been faced with some major changes to the railroad network and services at London Bridge. As part of the Thameslink Programme which is sponsored by the UK Government, the London Bridge rail station is set to undergo some major rebuilding.
Overconsumption is currently becoming an increasing sustainability issue of environmental concern in Australia. All over Australia, there is increased demand for consumer goods and basic commodities due to improved living standards. The primary cause of overconsumption is overpopulation and increased living standards.
Geologists from the UK suggested that the mudflow must have resulted from a fracture on the limestone layer of the earth’s crust. These fractures allowed muddy water to penetrate the earth’s surface; especially after continuous drilling. The pressure exerted by the fractures extended at least 2km on the surface of the earth and later exploded as the mudflow; 200m away from the drilling well.
Advancement in technology has resulted in increased pollution resulting from the high production of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The increased carbon emission into the atmosphere has impacted negatively on the environment causing drastic climatic changes. The aspect of climate change involves alterations observed in long-term weather patterns.
In the middle of Duke Street and Lord Street, child care center sits the Richmond air monitoring station. As of the second day of October 2000, the station began operating as an RDAS site. As a result, data collection from pollutants such as Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) and Carbon Monoxide (CO) were established.
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The success of any project depends on its social acceptability at the local level. Projects which have been successful in the past are socially engrafted, benefit the local people, do not have an effect on the social, physical, and cognitive structures and ensures their continuity, and uses good communication and community involvement procedures.
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For industrialized societies, fossil fuels are the lifeblood because they supply most of the energy needs. In the recent past, the disadvantages of these fossil fuels- such as price instability, eventual supply challenges, environmental damage, and uneven fossil fuel resource distribution- have led to an investigation on their use and pursuit of alternative sources of energy.
Fuel choice and cleaning: Production industries need to seek alternative sources of energy other than coal for generating energy. For instance, the replacement of coal with natural gas reduces such emissions by 10%. Moreover, oil fuels emit less particulate emissions. Fuel cleaning is one of the ways of minimizing atmospheric particles.
To address the issue of degradation of materials within the power plant, it is very important to develop a progressive materials degradation approach. This approach should intend to come up with a foundation for appropriate actions of keeping the material degradation from impacting the integrity of the components as Abu-Khader (2009) reports.
Ecosystem refers to the entire organisms in a specific area together with the abiotic or non-living components with which they interact. An ecosystem thus simply refers to a biological community together with its physical environment. The study investigates chemical cycling and energy flow within the selected ecosystem.
The solid particles are removed in order to ensure the remaining wastewater is more degradable. This process involves the production of greywater, a type of water free of toilet products. Production of grey requires the recycling of wastewater in order to reduce the level of wastewater produced in households.
Experiments involving SEM requires special arrangements due to the fact that vacuum conditions are required together with electrons to give out an image. The sample must be water-free and covered with a conductive layer through the introduction of a sputter coater which can be achieved by utilizing an electric field and argon gas.
Therefore, it is understandable that in a desperate move to save itself and its people, Australia takes measures that will domestically reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. While any reduction of CO2 emissions is welcome, question one suggests that some of the approaches that Australia may take in an attempt to reduce the emissions may greatly disadvantage the country’s business and may not have much effect on climate change.
The policies formulated in the US on environmental protection would also make natural gas an alternative to coal and oil that have a larger carbon footprint and degrade the environment compared to natural gas. Most of the energy power plants that are being built currently are turning to natural gas-powered plants so as to ensure that there is cost reduction.
A real-life sustainability program that I would wish to implement in my community in Kuwait is the resource conservation project. The project is aimed at ensuring that the natural resources are maintained in the ecology. The resource conservation will ensure that appropriate practices are taken that can be reiterated without causing any negative impact in Kuwait or across the globe.
Lowering this risk would need retraining the rise in CO2 emission and ultimately limiting the existing level of emission to a level that can stabilize the atmosphere. This implies that the anthropogenic emissions have to finally reduce towards zero as the atmosphere and the ocean attain an equilibrium. Various initiatives have been adopted across the globe to reduce the level of carbon dioxide emission.
Carbon oxide written as CO2 is one of the primary greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere through many human activities. Carbon dioxide is also naturally present in the atmosphere as part of the carbon cycle of the earth which is the natural circulation of carbon in the oceans, soils, plants, animals, and the atmosphere
GIS is a technique that captures, stores, checks the validity, and displaces data of the problem in question in respect to the earth’s geographical surface. Moreover, it is easier to retrieve information about a particular area through GIS-based data maps. The technique also manipulates the acquired data to achieve the desired information while conducting an analysis.
In coming up with the sustainable building, the design should consider the cost, quantity, and type of material to be used in construction in order to achieve a high degree of sustainability. The cost of transporting materials and the workers to construct the building also need to consider during design.
The paper "Water Problems the World is Facing Now" is a worthy example of an essay on environmental studies. Over the past decades, the world has experienced water shortage and forecasts show that we are headed for a water crisis soon. However, various solutions like rainwater harvesting and dams, underground water have been applied to solve water problems though they have their negativities.
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Buildings are acknowledged as one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emission and global energy use. Green buildings are identified as an appropriate strategy for increasing environmental awareness. Environmental policies have been applied in practice and construction to reduce environmental impacts.
To determine whether there will be enough water to sustain the growing demand for food, it is important to note those factors influencing the availability of water for consumption. With the increasing human population and unsustainable human activities like encroachment into the water, catchment areas are some of the factors determining the global trend in the availability of water.
Greenhouse gas emissions, primarily the CO2 from fossil fuels, are a significant contributing factor to climate change. The atmospheric levels of CO2 have more than doubled since the beginning of the industrial revolution, these levels of carbon are projected to increase more rapidly as the global economy continues to grow at a higher rate
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The earthquake killed more than 160,000 people and displaced more than 1.5 million others. However, the most devastating aspect of this earthquake is that it destroyed the sense of place for many Haitians by not only displacing thousands from a place where they have called home for many years but also snatching them of their loved ones.
Moreover, it looks into issues related to population and the conflict existing between natural resources and environmental conflicts. The authors utilize the analytical construction to gauge these issues that to determine how they significantly affect natural, social, and economic aspects of sustainable living.
Governments’ utilization of environmental-related organizations to raise awareness of environmental preservation and dangers of pollution could act as significant strategies to curb environmental degradation. Besides, embracing all the strategies that are aimed at reducing all forms of pollution can greatly transform the environment.
A building that is optimally oriented is capable of attracting much heat during winter thus warming itself. Ecotect is therefore a mechanism through which the alignment of location is defined through data examination in such a way that the rate of the sun’s radiation is greater during summer than in winter seasons. This is depicted in the yellow shaded region of the diagram in the paper.
The use of fossil fuels and coal to produce electricity causes global warming and change in the climate. In most places around the world, very little effort is being put to curb these adverse effects. For this reason, it is imperative to explore alternative sources of energy, which could have a less negative effect on the environment (Evans, 2007).
Plastic Recycling in the Sultanate of Oman is in its nascent phase and is being slowly adopted. Continuous landfilling and burning of plastics have already impacted the economy which has made the government aware of the riding concerns and looking at adopting different ways so that plastics can be recycled.
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Nuclear wastes are considered one of the most hazardous substances on the face of the earth. The waste also referred to as radioactive waste is the liquid or gaseous waste that is generated from nuclear fuel production, nuclear power stations, decommissioning of nuclear plants, the manufacturing of weapons, and repossessing of fuel (Gaffigan, 2010).
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With the reasons discussed above, it will be very wise for the company to consider adopting Local Exhaust Ventilation instead of a dust mask. It is very much safer not only for the company employees but also for the neighboring resident. By its installation, members of staff will feel safe and therefore lead to a lower turnover rate.
One aspect to reduce carbon emission will involve the use of carbon-free and reduced carbon energy sources. According to the Office of Indian Energy and Economic carbon emitting systems should be avoided by seeking alternatives to sources of energy. Hotel 33 Preston being a 3-star hotel means there are high energy demands in heating processes.
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Local authorities are in charge of collecting municipal waste as well as running contracts which normally are kerbside collection schemes. The 2003 Household Waste Recycling Act needed all UK local authorities to offer all households at least two types of recyclable materials collection bins by 2010 (Great Britain Parliament et al., 2007, p.188).