October 18‚ 2012 Dear Mr. Allen‚ Hello‚ I’m Joanmarie Swanson and I am a part of Marin School of Environmental Leadership (MSEL) at Terra Linda High School. MSEL is a school within a school‚ which focuses on environmental issues and situations‚ as well as project-based learning and building leadership skills in students. Our class attended and listened to you speak at the sustainability debate. I support your ideas about shaping the United States. I agree with you that we should have
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Work Renewable and Non-renewable energy sources &Fuels: Renewable energy comes from natural sources that are constantly and sustainably replenished. The most common renewable energy sources are biomass‚ hydroelectric‚ geothermal‚ wind power and solar power. Sunlight is the source of most renewable energy power; the sun can be used to produce solar energy which is electricity for heating‚ cooling‚ lighting homes and transportation. [1] Non-renewable energy is energy that comes from the ground and
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Li‚ 1 2-16-13 Solar Energy: The Energy of the Future Our Earth’s resorvoir of resources seem to be limitless‚ but with the exponential growth of the human population; the need for efficient alternative energy sources is becoming urgent. Therefore‚ research companies and individuals are focusing on creating new energy systems. Fossil fuels are are depleting and becoming more difficult to obtain. The earth will face an energy crisis in the near future if humans are not careful with their consumption
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the cooling towers. Three nuclear-powered American warships‚ (top to bottom) nuclear cruisersUSS Bainbridge and USS Long Beach withUSS Enterprise the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in 1964. Crew members are spelling out Einstein ’s mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2 on the flight deck. The Russian nuclear-powered icebreakerNS Yamal on a 1994 joint expedition with theNSF. Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provided
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Environmental Sociology A Resource Page John Sydenstricker-Neto ________________________________________ • What is Environmental Sociology? • Working Groups in Professional Associations • Teaching Environmental Sociology • Some Relevant Themes • Future Perspectives • Sociology Journals • Links of Interest • Cited References ________________________________________ What is Environmental Sociology? Environmental sociology is the study of the reciprocal
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NUCLEAR ENERGY AND SAFETY Consumption of energy is increasing nowadays so nuclear energy has very importance for energy needs. Nuclear energy is produced naturally and in man-made operations under human control and it is a thriving global industry. A total of 435 nuclear power plants are operating around the world in 30 countries. Also ‚ nuclear energy has some advantages Nuclear energy has the lowest impact than fossil fuel energy on environment because nuclear plants don ’t emit
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY By Vasantt K. Jogoo Introduction 1.0 Concern over environmental issues has definitely reached new heights if judged by the headlines it is making in the press and the number of international meetings devoted to its debate. The natural resource base of most countries continues to be degraded at an alarming rate. While the state has a major role to play in the arbitration of conflicts that arise between environmental and developmental goals‚ it is becoming obvious
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hazardous to both the health and environment of the people when the leadership of the country changes. There is this fear of how the country will function based on the President’s party lineage and that is a testament to how problematic and inconsistent the ideals of this country are when it comes to political topics‚ including environmental policy and climate change. Environmental racism and injustice‚ as a subset to the problems environmental policy brings‚ suddenly becomes acceptable and a sacrifice the
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Energy is the fuel that runs the engine of the world economy. Believe it or not our need for energy is not primarily to run economies but intrinsically to create order in the world. Wind energy Wind energy is the kinetic energy associated with the movement of atmospheric air. It has been used for hundreds of years for sailing‚ grinding grain‚ and for irrigation. Wind energy systems convert this kinetic energy to more useful forms of power. Wind energy systems for irrigation and milling have been
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Environmental Accounting Where We Are Now‚ Where We Are Heading by Joy E. Hecht Interest is growing in modifying national income accounting systems to promote understanding of the links between economy and environment. T he field of environmental accounting has made great strides in the past two decades‚ moving from a rather arcane endeavor to one tested in dozens of countries and well established in a few. But the idea that nations might integrate the economic role of the environment into
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