What is green building? As the global climate warming‚ more and more people focus on building energy efficiency. There is more awareness that CO2 produced by building energy use is the main source of climate warming. Energy-saving buildings become inevitable trend of development‚ the green building also arises in time. Green building can be define as to the construction of the whole life cycle‚ for maximize resource conservation (epa.gov‚ 19/12/2012). It includes energy saving‚ land saving‚ water
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THE HISTORY OF EARTH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC By: Juni Haryanto (B1034131008) Muhammad Ridwan (B1034131006) Erwinsyah (B1034131010) Background Earth is the third planet in the solar system‚ earth has been created since 4.54 billion years ago. Every planet in the solar system it is only earth that we know have living creature inside because the condition of earth is the most possible place for living creature can live inside in the planet. The first life creature live in earth is about 3.8 until 3
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Save the Earth With all the talk about going green‚ it seems much easier to let the cards fall where they may. What’s easier? Just throwing all the trash into one can‚ or sorting it into separate cans? As hard as it could be to clear the mess that this and past generations have left‚ it would be severely healthier than the alternative. Plutonium is a dangerous toxin that is released from nuclear power plants. “Plutonium‚ which has the half-life of only 0.5 million years‚ but is so toxic that
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Trees Our Best Friend living beings inhabiting this earth‚ trees are out best friends. Mother Nature‚in her infinite wisdom‚ has gifted them to man to live in harmony with him and to be... Premium 2 pages 273 Words Trees Our Best Friend act‚ every citizen must stand by the government. We must save trees‚ our valuable and benevolent friends since our existence depends on them. Everyone should plant... Premium 1 pages 250 Words Trees Our Best Friend CULTURE [pic] SOME DEFINITIONS Culture
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Trees excrete leaves The theory that leaves‚ among other uses‚ are also used as a way to excrete toxins from the plants body has been very controversial among many botanists. This theory says that the plant takes in toxins from the soil and excretes these toxins out of the body through the leaves of the plant when the leaves fall off. Is this possible? Are leaves really the plants mechanism of excretion? I will give some evidence that may support this theory and shed light on if this is really another
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Earth Day Founded in 1970 as a day of education about environmental issues‚ Earth Day is now a globally celebrated holiday that is sometimes extended into Earth Week‚ a full seven days of events focused on green awareness. The brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson and inspired by the antiwar protests of the late 1960s‚ Earth Day was originally aimed at creating a mass environmental movement. It began as a "national teach-in on the environment" and was held on April 22 to maximize the number of
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his cape was red‚ his crown was red‚ and his nose was red‚ especially when he had a cold. Everything was red‚ even his little finger. Luckily‚ his wife was green—though when she stood beside him he seemed redder than ever and about to catch fire. One winter’s day a storm came storming. It was a snow storm‚ and the wind howled‚ the trees flopped back and forth‚ and the snow fell in flakes as big as plates. O‚ the world was so beautifully white when the storm stopped. It looked so pure and inviting
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Green Belt Terry Thomas Grantham University April Croxton Intro to Environmental Science April 16‚ 2013 Green Belt Throughout this world we see trees just about everywhere. As children we don’t really pay too much attention to them other than climbing them‚ or finding ways to swing from them like a monkey. The thing that most of us don’t realize is how vital trees are to our lives‚ our water‚ to our soil‚ to our air‚ and to our atmosphere. Over the years the amount of trees in
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Ordered Dictionaries Binary Search Trees < 2 1 6 9 4 = 8 Keys are assumed to come from a total order. New operations: closestKeyBefore(k) closestElemBefore(k) closestKeyAfter(k) closestElemAfter(k) 1 Binary Search Trees 2 > Binary Search Trees Binary Search (§3.1.1) Binary search performs operation findElement(k) on a dictionary implemented by means of an array-based sequence‚ sorted by key similar to the high-low game at each step‚ the number of candidate items is halved terminates
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Origin of Earth and Evoluation of the Environment MODULE - 1 Environment through Ages 1 ORIGIN OF EARTH AND EVOLUTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT We live on a beautiful planet called earth‚ along with a wide variety of plants‚ animals and other organisms. Our earth‚ however‚ is part of a vast universe. The universe is about 15 to 20 billion years old. The age of the earth is approximately 4 to 5 billion years‚ while human beings evolved only around 2 million years ago. In this lesson‚ you shall learn
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