H A B I T A T INTL. Vol. 19‚ No. 3‚ pp. 279-292‚ 1995 Pergamon Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain 0197-3975/95 $9.50 + 0.00 0197-3975(94)00071-9 Sustainable Development and the Construction Industry* ROBIN SPENCE and HELEN MULLIGANt Cambridge University‚ UK and tCambridge Architectural Research Limited‚ UK ABSTRACT The construction industry‚ together with the materials industries which support it‚ is one of the major global exploiters of natural resources‚ both physical
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Light Pollution 1. Every urbanite knows the bright lights of the city make it impossible to see the stars in a night sky. What most of us do not know is that those lights also may be making us sick. The cause is light pollution – the unearthly glow of billions of street lamps‚ security and porch lights‚ searchlights‚ office lights and signs – as people everywhere try to dispel the darkness of the night. 2. For the first time‚ light is being investigated seriously as a pollutant and a health hazard
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economic super power‚ which already has an enormous environmental footprint. a. Research the impact of fossil fuels emission from motor vehicles on human health. Summarize your findings. Fossil fuel emission from motor vehicles as an outdoor air pollution produces pollutants in the air which leads to negative impacts on human health. (Climate Change and Health‚ 2010). These pollutants mainly include carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The toxic pollutant nitrogen dioxide is ejected in
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Causal Analysis of the Arab Spring On 17 December 2010‚ 26-year-old jobless Mohammed Bouazizi‚ frustrated and ashamed by the public humiliation inflicted by a Tunisian female municipal officer and her asides who confiscated the fruit and vegetables he was selling from a street stall and slapped his face in the process‚ set himself on fire and passed away a few days later. As an aftermath of this incident‚ a huge wave of protests over unemployment and social issues sparked out in Tunisia‚ forcing
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Jon Rueff ENG 112 Bolden 3/4/10 Why is our Pollution Bad? When we watched An Inconvenient Truth several weeks ago there was a lot of pinpointing factors that came to mind that I didn’t truly understand. When I saw all of the charts of how high global warming is increasing‚ it really took a second for me to realize how much damage we’re causing to this environment. One point Al Gore made was the amount of travel tourists do in a single year‚ and how it is effecting our global
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Atmospheric Pollution Yvonne Perry Everest Online Atmospheric Pollution There are both primary and secondary air pollutants. The primary pollutants “Are the direct products of combustion and evaporation‚” (Wright‚ 2011) and some can undergo further reactions in the atmosphere and causing secondary pollutants. The names of the primary pollutants are: Suspended particulate matter‚ volatile organic compounds‚ carbon monoxide‚ nitrogen oxides‚ sulfur dioxide‚ lead‚ air toxics‚ and radon. Suspended
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Environmental Pollution at Hindustan Lever’s Kodaikanal Plant In mid-2004‚ Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) executives looked back at the events of the past three years at their mercury thermometer factory in Kodaikanal in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. After mercury leakage from the plant had been reported in March 2001‚ heavy expenditure had been incurred in environmental risk assessment‚ waste disposal and health monitoring. The expenditure had exceeded the total profits generated by the plant
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Air Pollution CFish Mr. Nollen Biology 2B 8 May‚ 1996 The Problem Contamination of the atmosphere by gaseous‚ liquid‚ or solid wastes or by-products that can endanger human health and the health and welfare of plants and animals‚ or can attack materials‚ reduce visibility‚ or produce undesirable odors. Among air pollutants emitted by natural sources‚ only the radioactive gas radon is recognized as a major health threat. A byproduct of the radioactive decay of uranium minerals in certain kinds
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of. However‚ acid rain on it’s own is not the biggest problem. It causes many other problems such as aluminum poisoning. Acid Rain is deadly. Acid rain is polluted rain. The pollutants go up to the atmosphere and when it rains it brings the pollution down with it. Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide are the gases that form the acid rain. When these gases mix with moisture it can make rain‚ snow‚ hail‚ or even fog. The scientific term for acid rain is acid deposition that means when the acid is
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All time-management courses boil down to one basic piece of advice: set priorities and allocate the bulk of your time to tasks that are crucial to meeting your goals. Minimize interruptions and spend big chunks of your time in productive and creative activity. Unfortunately‚ current information systems encourage the opposite approach‚ leading to an interrupt-driven workday and reduced productivity. Here are six steps to regaining control of your day: Don’t check your email all the time. Set
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