WHY GREEN BUILDINGS ARE IMPORTANT TODAY ? I Introduction Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building’s life-cycle: from siting to design‚ construction‚ operation‚ maintenance‚ renovation‚ and demolition. This practice expands and complements the classical building design concerns of economy‚ utility‚ durability‚ and
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[pic] The Green Revolution The world’s worst recorded food disaster occurred in 1943 in British-ruled India. Known as the Bengal Famine‚ an estimated 4 million people died of hunger that year in eastern India (which included today’s Bangladesh). Initially‚ this catastrophe was attributed to an acute shortfall in food production in the area. However‚ Indian economist Amartya Sen (recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics‚ 1998) has established that while food shortage was a contributor to the
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Green Revolution AN INTRODUCTION TO THE “GREEN REVOLUTION” Green Revolution refers to a series of research‚ development‚ and technology transfer initiatives‚ occurring between the 1940s and the late 1960s‚ that increased agriculture production worldwide‚ particularly in the developing world‚ beginning most markedly in the late 1960s. The initiatives‚ led by Norman Borlaug‚ the "Father of the Green Revolution" credited with saving over a billion people from starvation and the dangerous outcomes
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Green buildings have greater payoffs than the cost to construct them making them a good investment over using standard building sites and materials. Many components play into the construction and design of a green building including location and building materials (just to name a few). Green buildings‚ whether they are homes‚ offices‚ or schools‚ are built to reduce pollution‚ conserve energy used‚ and to more efficiently use renewable resources. Several practices that are now used by those “going
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Tips to go Green Buy products made of recycled content materials. Report scavengers‚ who take recyclables from county curbside recycling bins. It is against the law for any unauthorized person to take items from curbside bins‚ and those who do are robbing counties of the revenue from recyclables that helps pay for curbside programs. Have a garage sale. Other people may be able to reuse your old stuff‚ so it doesn’t have to be thrown away. Start a compost pile to recycle leftover food like bread scraps
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“State of the Union” written by David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead is about the state of divorces in the United States in 2007. David Popenoe is a professor of sociology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick‚ New Jersey and an expert in the study of marriage and family life‚ who has written or edited ten books. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead writes and lectures on the well being of families and children. Around fifty percent out of one thousand marriages end in divorce. Women are more likely
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In this article‚ Buffam discusses the potential risks that green roof runoff can have on downstream ecosystems. Though beneficial in some areas‚ storm water runoff from these roofs have been found to seep harmful chemicals that can contaminate water quality. Sources of phosphorous‚ carbon‚ copper and iron have all been identified as a part of the hazardous runoff. It has been anticipated that these green roof ecosystems have fluctuating runoff concentrations depending on plant production‚ microscopic
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Discuss appropriate ‘green’ strategies that can be implemented in supply chains and analyse the impact on all supply chain members Warinee Prapai Submission Date: Friday‚ 21 April 2006 Unit of Study: TPTM6170‚ Strategy and Supply Chain Management Degree Enrolled In: Master of International Business (MIB) and Master of Logistics Management (MLM) Student No: 305044575 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 GREEN STRATEGIES AND LEAN STRATEGIES 1
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Green Revolution From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For other uses‚ see Green Revolution (disambiguation). [pic] [pic] Increased use of various technologies such as pesticides‚ herbicides‚ and fertilizers as well as new breeds of high yield crops were employed in the decades after the Second World War to greatly increase global food production. |[pic] | |Agriculture
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realistic values retained by Impressionism. Green Stripe- In 1905‚ Matisse painted a unique oil and tempera painting of his wife‚ Amélie Noellie Matisse-Parayre. (Amelia). The infamous green stripe creates a shadow line down her oval face. The divide provides an illusion of a dark and light side‚ causing the colors to play off of each other. Henry Matisse and works such as the Green Stripe will forever be etched in the world of innovative art. His paintings‚ drawings and portraits will continue
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