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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Jenessa Orpilla Summer Assignment AP Psychology Movies and Mental Disorders Running with Scissors is a film adaption of a memoir written by Augusten Burroughs. It takes place in the 1970s where young Augusten lives with a dysfunctional family; an alcoholic father and a delusional poet. After his parents’ divorce‚ his mother‚ Deidre Burroughs goes to see a psychiatrist named Dr. Finch. Incapable of raising Augusten‚ Deidre gives custody of her son to Dr. Finch‚ where he deals
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Green IT For Good Corporation (What‚ Why‚ and How) Rebecca Wulankayes (1240002643) What? Green Information Technology (IT) has become an important topic in IT management research and practice in the last years due to economic opportunities and increasing pressure from stakeholders according to several researchers. Although it has been a common topic‚ the understanding of the coverage and the scope is still missing. Some researcher also prefer the term of “Green IS”. Watson et al. (2010)
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The Colorado River Geographers can tell you that the one thing that most rivers and their adjacent flood plains in the world have in common is that they have rich histories associated with human settlement and development. This especially true in arid regions which are very dependent upon water. Two excellent examples are the Nile and the Tigris-Euphrates rivers which show use the relationship between rivers and concentrations of people. However‚ the Colorado River is not such a good
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Plot Summary A Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet‚ Philip Michael Ondaatje‚ wrote Running in the Family. He is best known for writing The English Patient. But this book is not a work of fiction; instead‚ it is a memoir from his youth in Sri Lanka. The events happening in the book can be classified as creative non-fiction. The book is written in postmodern style‚ with writing from the perspective of different real-life individuals and refraining from stringing narrative together in an orderly
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Let Us Give Peace a Chance In just a numbers of hours‚ thousands of brutalities‚ ferocity and violence quickly disperse around the world. And because of this alarming incident‚ many creative minds come up of the different ideas on how to foster peace in this world. Even the children have their own concepts on promoting peace on earth even though in their own little way. As well as the youth which use their strength and aptitude in helping in the dissemination of harmony in every country. And also
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Irving "Irv" Blitzer was an American bobsled two time Gold Medalist at the 1968 Winter Olympics who finished first in two events again during the 1972 Winter Olympics but was disqualified from the latter for cheating and retired in disgrace to Jamaica‚ where he leads an impoverished life as a bookie. Irving is approached by two Jamaican athletes: top 100m runner Derice Bannock‚ who failed to qualify for the 1988 Summer Olympics when another opponent tripped him at the trials‚ and Sanka Coffie‚ a
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Brittany Wester SOC 228 TR 3-4:50 River Conscious Living: The Willamette Oregon ’s Willamette River is the 13th largest river in the United States‚ not only does it span more than 11‚000 square miles in total area but over 70% of all Oregonians live in the Willamette Basin. This river is as much a part of Oregon ’s culture as Crater Lake or Mt. Hood‚ it is even a declared American Heritage river‚ yet we have become so disconnected from it that most people don ’t even look down as they cross
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River geomorphology Divided by five East Asia’s mightiest rivers were once a single‚ even mightier torrent Oct 12th 2013 | CHENGDU | From the print edition The amazing First Bend BY BUILDING dams in the Himalayas‚ Chinese engineers are tinkering with one of the world’s great sets of watersheds. Five great streams—the Red River‚ the Yangzi‚ the Irrawaddy‚ the Salween and the Mekong—flow within about 180 kilometres (110 miles) of one another from the south-eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau
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clear long term development policy. Sustainability report is a method to internalize and improve an organization’s commitment to sustainable development in a way that can be demonstrated to both internal and external stakeholders. Among company running in a sustainable way‚ Muji performs quite well. However‚ there should be some challenges for their further development in sustainability. For instance‚ Muji is a retail company which sells a wide variety of household and consumer goods but company
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