"Now green means business ", a review on the article published in "Newsweek " (August 2, 2008)
Text commentary - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Nowadays, the largest companies in the world are getting more and more involved in environmental concerns. Firms, which in the past seemed not to be aware of the environmental care, are really getting serious about sustainability. Even major companies such as Wal-Mart or Google have made...
"Eco barons Lead the Way " - review on article published in "The Sunday Times " (March 1, 2009)
Text commentary - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Green commitment seems to be trendy in today's companies' strategy, but tycoons are more and more involved in environmental concerns too. The Sunday Times listed the 100 most environmentally involved tycoons, and these philanthropists are worth nearly £267 billion. Maybe thanks to Barack...
"Surf's up, waste's down ", review on article published in "The New York Times " (November 18, 2009)
Text commentary - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Green commitment is definitely today's hot trend in business. This phenomenon seems to involve more and more fields. For example, the surfboard manufacturing industry, which is very profitable, and has a sizeable market, is one of the new fields involved in recycling. Despite the eco-friendly...
Al Gore and David Guggenheim, "An inconvenient truth", 2006
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary presented by Al Gore in 2006 and directed by David Guggenheim. In this documentary Al Gore tries to sensitize more people to the issue of global warming. To do this he starts by presenting the first image taken in 1968 from space. Al Gore goes on to explain...
Handling and disposal of low level nuclear waste
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Low level nuclear waste includes materials which are not radioactive themselves but have become contaminated because of their exposure to neutron radiations. These items find their use in nuclear power plants, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, government and private development facilities,...
Environmentally conscious recycling planning: Strategies and its optimal analysis
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
This paper describes a stochastic production planning problem for an environmentally conscious recycling technique to adequately cope with unpredictable recovery rate of end-of-life products towards a more sustainable pattern of production. The model is formulated as a nonlinear integer...
Les énergies renouvelables au Danemark
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Denmark is the greenest power in the world. That is to say that they are leaders in renewable energies market, but they are also opinion leader. In fact, a great part of the population is favorable to renewable energies and doesn't care if a wind farm is erected next to their home. That typical...
Climate change and green house gas emissions: issues and challenges in India
Essay - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
Green house gas (GHG) emission is a matter of grave concern across the world. The adverse impacts happen mainly in the form of climate change and global warming. Immediate steps are required to cut the emissions. India is the fourth largest emitter of GHG in the world in absolute terms. Being a...
Utilization of solar energy: An alternative of conventional energy sources
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The earth continuously gets the shower of radiation of the sun, which is the mother of all forms of energy-conventional or non conventional. The amount of solar radiation reaching the earth is called “insolation” -the short form for “incident solar radiation”. Solar energy is...
Biodiesel-novel energy source with minimum CO2 emission
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Rapid growth in population coupled with industrial and technological developments is leading towards the depletion of limited fossil fuel resources of the world. Imperative concerns related to energy and climate change due to CO2 emission requires the large scale substitution of petroleum based...
Co-gasification of municipal sewage sludge and asphaltene residue from refineries for production of synfuels/power
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
One of the gravest problems being experienced by non-oil producing developing country like India is spiraling prices of petroleum crude which has seriously inhibited growth of power sector thereby considerably decelerating the growth rate. Added to this, the explosion in the population of the...
Mitigation of CO2 emission with CNG vehicles: A case study of Delhi
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Recently, the CNG utilization in transport vehicles has been one of many measures initiated by the Government of Delhi, to solve growing deterioration of air quality of Delhi due to manifold increase in number of vehicles. In the present study, results of structured questionnaire based survey on...
Bryce Canyon Hoodoos
Thesis - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
Hoodoos are defined as tall rock formations that have “totem-pole shaped bodies”, meaning they have thick and thin widths in the same formation (Bryce Canyon National Park, para 13). Height varies from one hoodoo to another, as they can be as small as a person or tower as tall as ten...
Organic coffee: Why Latin America's farmers are abandoning it
Text commentary - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Since a long time, the coffee market has been largely unstable. The coffee market is open to speculation. Coffee represents 4% of world trade in food and it is the 2nd raw material marketed worldwide. In 1962, producing and consumer countries signed an agreement setting minimum prices and export...
Sustainable development in the electricity sector - the examples of France and Great Britain
Market study - 24 pages - Ecology & environment
It has been put in evidence that 85 percent of the energy consumed by humans comes from fossil fuels. This statement pointed out one of the most important problems currently faced by humans. The generation of energy depends on the use of fossil fuels. The problem which appears is that these fuels...
Green marketing: a true battle or a mean to meet an underlying strategic end?
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Sustainable development is now on everybodys' lips and the movement to save the planet is starting to have quite an impact in the most developed countries. Barack Obama made it a key argument to win over the American voters during his run for presidency and now companies are also crying out...
Le secteur des éoliennes résidentielles en Espagne
Market study - 16 pages - Ecology & environment
Renewable energies are playing an essential role regarding to crucial issues raised by the fossil fuels (scheduled exhaustion, pollution, global warming, energy dependence …) Various countries are working on this problem and switch more and more to sustainable development investments....
Geography: climate change Solutions ?
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
Is climate change a reality? Some people claim that actions should be taken to reduce our CO2 emissions, some believe that this neurosis on climate change is unjustified, that all the observations that have been made on climate change are natural changes. But this temperature change doesn't...
Environmental issues in the air transport industry
Case study - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The air transport industry uses air craft to transport people, cargo, and mail. Civil aviation includes two major categories; first one is the scheduled air transport, which includes passenger and cargo flights operating on regularly-scheduled routes; and general aviation, including all other...
The Eden Project - publié le 27/02/2010
Case study - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
The Eden Project is a multiple greenhouse complex in the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest greenhouses. The complex is dominated by two gigantic enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house plant species from across the world. Each enclosure imitates a natural biome. The...
Ecological census lab report
Thesis - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
This lab involved field work in Hammond Woods, Newton, MA. Here, we observed trees in two sites: an exterior and interior site. These two sites possessed different distributions of trees and their species. The exterior, or edge site, consisted of four different species of plants: the White Pine...
Avian niche lab report
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Surrounding the Ecology subject, we were studying an ecological habitat and the animals that make it up. Their behavior and habitat preference is what most closely relates to this lab. The object of this lab was to attempt to draw connections between habitat preferences (or lack thereof), any...
How climate change can be reframed as a carbon cycle management challenge
Thesis - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
The planet Earth's climate change has been given a considerable degree of attention by the human population lately. Detailed climate change patters, predictions and fact get unleashed every second of the day. Some aspects that can be closely analyzed when drawing conclusions on climatology trends...
What are the attitudes of companies in Växjö regarding to sustainable energies?
Case study - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
Växjö is known as the greenest city in Europe, and this is its main promotional vector. We think it is interesting to investigate on what criteria this statement is based; because it is the main part of the product development and innovation plan. Moreover, Växjö has tried to reverse the trend...
Växjö the greenest city in Europe
Case study - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
In this paper we will talk about Växjö in terms of global warming and the effects of environmental responsibilities and the "green image" of companies. On the lower levels it is even better if there is cooperation between companies and municipalities, and when a municipality is involved in...
The environment, a new geographical paradigm
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Many geographers still define geography as the study of human relationships, nature. At the end of the nineteenth century, Paul Vidal de la Blache distinguished physical geography and human geography. Geologists distinguish themselves by distinguishing physical features, while geographers study...
Should the Kyoto Treaty be ratified?
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Taking note of the reality of global warming in the 1990s, and of the human responsibility in this change, political leaders initiated a policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol, which came into effect on February 2005, is an amendment of the United Nations Framework...
Environmentalism ("Green ideology") has been labelled an ideology by Ball, Dagger. Do you agree or disagree and why?
Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The Greens often refuse to call environmentalism an ideology and most of them prefer to talk about ethics, a respect towards all forms of life. Some people do not consider that environmentalism is an ideology since every party now includes green measures in their platform. In France, for...
In what ways has the 'environment' become a global issue?
Essay - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Since the 1970s, scientific research concerning the environment has been increasing. The vital concern is global warming. According to research, global warming is currently becoming worse and it affects a lot the hole in the ozone layer, making it bigger. The proof is the increase in the number...
Is United States the Greenest Nation?
Essay - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
The United States seems to be the biggest polluter in comparison with the other countries, and more precisely with the European and Asian ones. As an example, The United States emits 50% more greenhouse gases than the European Union for each dollar of GDP. America can be considered as the...
