Green Roofs Nastaran Razavi The first article “Grass roots green roof”¹ explains how a nature lover and her volunteer community install and maintain a low-cost green roof system on the roof of a 36-year-old residential building to implement storm water management. In the beginning‚ community disagreements‚ safety concerns‚ and structural issues prevent the progress of the green roof project‚ but
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Herman Miller‚ a West Michigan based furniture manufacturer has embarked on a project to create products that are "green" and a methodology to ensure that the products are ecologically friendly from beginning to end. Like Friar Tucker‚ Herman Miller must follow a pathway to successfully design and implement this project. The initial parameters were for a new evaluation process to determine just how ecologically friendly the raw materials for use were. "To evaluate the extent to which a product
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February 4‚ 2009 To: From: Subject: Proposal to Recycle in Nantucket Cove Apartment Complex Everyone is continuously coming up with ways to Go Green that help the environment. Many believe that something as simple as recycling a water bottle and a newspaper can improve our planet. This proposal provides a general idea to recycle in the Nantucket Cove Apartments. Problem There is a problem with the regular trash dumpster overflowing constantly. Nantucket Cove apartment complex
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A set of interrelated‚ interactive messages generated during public discussion of environmental issues; “textual carnival”. Some of the rhetorical characteristics and activities of environet include: reflexive thinking‚ noticing‚ inventing‚ producing‚ and disseminating texts‚ arguing‚ and directing future discourse and action. 2. antagonism (define‚ give example) Antagonism is the limit of an idea‚ a widely shared viewpoint‚ or ideology. This allows an opposing idea to be voiced. Cox uses
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Pollans summary Helping preserve our earth is something every individual should be taking a part of because our planet is on the fast track to no longer existing. Michael Pollan’s article “Why Bother?” opens reader’s eyes in a good effective manor‚ using rhetorical strategies to help them see the good that comes out of going green. He captivates his audience questioning what are they doing to help our climate change for the better without hurting the planet even more and he beliefs that it is
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MEMORANDUM TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Environmental Scanning Websites and Databases As per your request I have investigated the website of the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) (www.bls.gov)‚ and the website of Export.gov (www.export.gov)‚ to determine their applicability towards providing information that could be useful for conducting an environmental scan that would be necessary for developing a strategic marketing plan. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics The U.S. Bureau of
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Geog 101 Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) If selected‚ this assignment counts for 25% of your total course grade (outline-5%; final report-20%). The purpose of this assignment is to: i) strengthen your academic writing capabilities; and ii) raise awareness of the environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product ’s life‚ from “cradle to grave”. Specifically‚ this assignment will: familiarize you with the many stages of a product’s life (raw material extraction‚ materials processing‚ manufacture
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Government Interactions with the Economy 1) Negative Externalities- external costs lead to an over allocation of resources to the specific economic activity. There are 2 possible ways of correcting these overspills: Taxation- the government can demand an effluent fee‚ which is a charge to a polluter that gives the right to discharge into the air or water a certain amount of pollution. Regulation- the government could specify a maximum allowable rate of pollution. This would require the
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Presentation: Wall-E Is poor CSR of Buy N Large (or any corporation) to blame for the state of the earth as seen in WALL-E? Our movie choice is Wall-E The movie WALL-E is set many centuries in the future around a dystopian vision of Earth. The Earth is choked with poisonous gasses‚ deserted cities with crumbling buildings and obelisks of rubbish making up the skyline. The humans boarded a space cruiser‚ Axiom‚ and left the rapidly deteriorating environment of Earth in 2100. The plan was to return
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QUESTION 1 What international events influenced the development of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability? List the key developments and events in a short 1-page point-form account providing the relevant names of events and dates/ years in which they took place 1) The 1972 United Nations Conference on Human Environment – Stockholm It led directly to the establishment of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)‚ which became the first UN agency to have its headquarters
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