Enercoop, "Cooperative society of renewable electricity furnishing"
Case study - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
In this presentation we are going to present Enercoop, which is a new French co-operative that operates in energy market and provides 'green' electricity. The particularity of the French electricity market is that since the 1st of July of this year it has been opened for competition. In...
The Amazon rainforest
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
The Amazon Rainforest is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America. This area consists of seven million square kilometers; though the forest itself occupies some 4.5 million square kilometers located within nine nations: Brazil (which includes 60 percent of the rainforest),...
The world according to Monsanto
Book review - 18 pages - Ecology & environment
This movie is the result of a two years work on the American company Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin. At the beginning, in the twentieth century, Monsanto was one of the biggest chemical industries in the world who sold substances used by the US Army in Vietnam in order to destroy forests. The...
The Hybrid Car Phenomenon
Case study - 34 pages - Ecology & environment
With the rise in oil prices and the high-profile launch of the Toyota Prius in Europe, the hybrid has gained an unexpected notoriety, even though its operation is often poorly understood. It appears that hybridization is probably a key technology in the medium and long term. Indeed, the question...
Did the city of Toronto and the province of Ontario ban the right 'pests'?
Case study - 14 pages - Ecology & environment
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the issue of cosmetic pesticide use in Canada. For years, chemical pesticides were readily sprayed on gardens and lawns across the country, with very little consideration given to the fact that they might be harmful to the environment. However, with...
Why people don't recycle
Case study - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
You and your fellow U.S. citizens “produced 4.4 pounds of waste per day during 2000. This is the equivalent of over 1600 pounds of trash per year per person or more than 220 tons of waste being generated each year.”1 Although recycling has been increasingly integrated into many...
The rainforests: Deforestation and conservation
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Deforestation is a very real and very serious problem which we are being faced with around the world. Unfortunately, environmental issues are often put on the back burner in our government's policies. Although the destruction of our environment has been a pressing concern for many years, this...
Coal in the North American Rocky Mountains: A mined resource
Thesis - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
Coal was formed millions of years ago in the cretaceous and tertiary periods, in swamps where ancient plants decomposed and filled swamps with bark, leaves and stems. In oxygenated, moving water, the plants were completely broken down by bacteria, but in stagnant water only certain chemical...
To your mind, what should we do in order to reach a sustainable development? A votre avis que devrions nous faire pour atteindre un développement durable?
Speech - 2 pages - Ecology & environment
During the nineteenth century, some writers like Jules Verne had warned about the fact that natural resources wouldn't last forever. In order to survive, humanity will have to reach towards a more sustainable development. This term describes a development that takes care of the next...
The role of multinationals and the environment
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
A traditional corporation that operates within the bounds of a sovereign area is required to comply with the legal and social institutions of that particular area. In the case of multinational corporations however, the rules are slightly different. This is, in part, because the same economic and...
The environmental impact of aquaculture operations
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
Human cultivation has produced habitats specialized for artificially spawning and nurturing aquatic animals and plants in fresh and marine waters. By assisting to meet the market demand for seafood consumption, aqua cultural operations have yielded clear and significant financial advantages,...
Fossil fuels or nuclear energy: Which is more eco-friendly?
Thesis - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
Human populations are growing at the fastest rates ever, and with this boom in population and standards of living, electricity consumption is growing. In 2007, there were 3891.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity used, which is a 1000 billion kilowatt-hours or a 37.17% increase in use compared...
The debate on global warming
Thesis - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
It seems like every night in the news for the past several years a similar story is being reported. All these stories, of course, have something to do with the issue of global warming. Global warming is a potentially dangerous problem for all people of the Earth, but is it real? Al Gore in his...
Private governance in forestry politics
Essay - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
In the first part of this document, we have pointed out that deforestation and loss of terrestrial diversity are serious global problems requiring concerted action. A number of measures have been discussed in the international arena to promote sustainable forest management. The emergence of a...
Earth: The sphere
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Although earth looks very simple it is a complex planet, which is constructed out of three things: air, land and water. Air as we know is also called atmosphere that took 4.5 billions years to create as it is now and consisted of deadly gases in early years. It was created by erupting volcanoes,...
From cell phones to MP3 players: How rechargeable lithium-ion batteries affect the environment
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Lithium-ion batteries one the most popular types of batteries used today. They are lightweight, have a high-energy density, and are less toxic to the environment than any other battery (Jensen et al. 1999). However, they still offer some undesirable effects to the environment. When not recycled...
Non conventional energy sources: Future necessity
Thesis - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
Energy is the primary and most universal measure of all kinds of work by human beings and nature. Energy is also defined as the ability or the capacity to do work. We use energy to do work and make all movements. When we eat, our body transforms the food into energy to do work. When we run or...
Clean water resource challenge
Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Water is the main source of life and covers three fourths of all the land on earth. There lives millions of plants and small animals in the oceans, from witch billions of people depend on fish. Some nations also get fresh water from ocean water, that?s why ocean pollution is a dangerous threat....
Endangered Amazon ecosystem
Thesis - 5 pages - Ecology & environment
The Amazon Rain forest is split between nine nations, with more then half of it in Brazil. The whole Rain forest covers five and a half million square kilometers and represents more then half of all the rain forests on earth. It is estimated that its age would be at least 55 million years and...
Non-conventional energy sources
Presentation - 37 pages - Ecology & environment
This presentation talks about non conventional energy sources. First of all the presentation gives a clear definition about energy and different forms of energy. It then moves on to the explanation of different forms of non-conventional energy forms explained one by one beginning with solar...
Do you think the U.N is an appropriate institution to fight the effects of climate change?
Worksheets - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
In order to counteract global warming, some people advocate ecological policies which would be instituted by the United Nations. It is reality and an indisputable fact that the United Nations is not an organization built to serve this era and even if it does accommodate this sector, it is and...
Preparation of biodiesel by Jatropha seeds
Thesis - 23 pages - Ecology & environment
Bio-diesel is an eco-friendly, alternative diesel fuel prepared from domestic renewable resources i.e. vegetable oils (edible or non- edible oil) and animal fats. These natural oils and fats are made up mainly of triglycerides. These triglycerides when rea w striking similarity to petroleum...
E-waste environmental
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Ecology & environment
Electronic Waste, also known as E-Waste, is the components that comprise an electrical or electronic product when it is being discarded. These electronics could be Computers, Televisions, Stereos, Cell Phones, and other electronic products. These components are recycled, resold or reused. E-waste...
Global warming - publié le 17/05/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
In today's society, environmental issues have an important impact on business and industrial decisions and are becoming part and parcel of economics. We live in scorching summers, the winters seem to be milder from year to year, and the seasons seem to have disappeared. Are these observations...
The impact of climate change on the Canadian Boreal forest
Thesis - 7 pages - Ecology & environment
This paper will provide a review of scientific literature, and look at solutions to problems, resulting from of impacts of climate change on the boreal forest region of Canada, as projected into the late 21st century. It will look at the problem from a number of intersecting areas: forest...
How Finnish people live and adapt to a particular external environment
Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment
To begin, we have to underline that the point that will be developed here is that Finnish people are strongly connected with nature. First of all, more than a quarter of the country is northern than the polar circle: Finland is the most septentrional country in Europe... Then, Finland is known as...
Water use and climate change : the effects of climate change on global water cycle
Essay - 1 pages - Ecology & environment
What I particularly want to stress in this essay is the necessary link that we have to make between climate change and water resources. It shows that it's necessary to understand those links and to investigate them if we want to find and propose recommendations and adaptations in order to...
Environmental toxicology on metallic mercury spill: A case in the versatile estrie and the steps to a successful decontamination
Thesis - 13 pages - Ecology & environment
In October 1996, the directions of public health in the Eastern Townships (Estrie-DSP) and a multipurpose area that have requested the collaboration of the Center for Toxicology of Quebec (CTQ) to the management of mercury spill metal in a class-chemistry laboratory. During our first...
Report on solutions to water-scarcity, irrigation and water-erosion problems in Western India
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
Projects in the Maharashtra State of India, especially among rural dwellers in the Ghats Mountains area, to improve water use and availability were actively pursued by Canadian and Indian researchers in the 1990s. This project was carried out with local people, paying particular attention to the...
History of forecasting the weather
Thesis - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
Weather refers to the state of air on earth at a given place and time, and climate is the pattern of weather that forms and one expects at a particular place at a given time. The weather or climate of a place usually identifies as warm or cold, wet or dry, cloudy or clear, or windy.The weather of...
