foot print. For the Austin area‚ they claim to use 39 million kWh of renewable power. For the San Antonio area‚ 25 million kWh of the power is from renewable power. Six of their stores are LEED certified‚ and these concepts will integrated into new store designs‚ though not expected to be submitted for LEED certification. Projects like these including retrofits for energy conserving options‚ give the company bragging rights of having reduced its utility usage by 20% networkwide. Considering the
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We live in this beautiful world which is an ultimate creation of the Almighty. But this usual world has got some unusual problems and those problems are created by us. We claim the world as our own but we can’t make its environment a fresh one. Because we are always busy making it polluted and giving it a harsh feedback. But now it’s the time to change this habit and sustain the world’s worst situation and give a ray of hope of survival. The topic of Green Technology helps this cause. Because the
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for them. “The number of Scribbling-Machines extending about seventeen miles south-west of LEEDS‚ exceed all belief‚ being no less than one hundred and seventy! and as each machine will do as much work in twelve hours‚ as ten men can in that time do by hand‚ (speaking within bounds) and they working night-and day‚ one machine will do as much work in one day as would otherwise employ twenty men.” The Leeds Woolen Workers Petition explains how the working class affected by the industrial revolution
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‘you think you have been lodged with the devil incarnate’ (Bradford health-General‚ no date) this gives the impression that he would rather be residing or is the same as hell because of the immense disease and vile stench. He compares Bradford to Leeds‚ Birmingham and Manchester. The reason for these horrendous conditions was the adaptation of industrialisation and urbanisation. Industrialisation was when people moved to the cities‚ and machines produced things instead of by hand. When industry started
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Current Problems and Issues Faced in The Construction Industry It is quite obvious that the Construction industry is one of the most important industries in the world. Because of construction‚ we all live in homes‚ apartments‚ condominiums‚ and other living places that were created by construction. Most jobs are in buildings‚ which were also created by construction. Basically‚ the entire structural part of society was created by hard working construction workers. To give you a general idea of
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opinions of what is beautiful and what is not. In Shakespearean times‚ a woman was considered beautiful if she had pale skin‚ light hair‚ bright eyes‚ and red lips and cheeks (Leed). Women went to extreme measures to achieve these ideal characteristics‚ plastering their faces with white cream and covering their cheeks in rouge (Leed). A fully made-up woman in Shakespearean times would look rather ridiculous today‚ and even Shakespeare criticizes “ideal” beauty in one of his sonnets‚ Sonnet 130: My
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Open Air Gampel Caribana Festival Gurtenfestival -Berne AUSTRIA Frequency Festival -St. Pölten‚ Austria IRELAND Electric PicNic- Laois Forbiden Fruit- Dublin Castle Palooza- tullamore UK Reading Festival‚ Reading Leeds Festival‚ Leeds T in the Park‚ Kinross V Festival Weston Park‚ Staffordshire V Festival Hylands Park‚ Chelmsford Isle of Wight Festival‚ Isle of Wight Bestival‚ Isle of White Latitude Festival‚ Southwold Hop Farm Festival‚ Kent Greenman Festival‚ Brecon
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Green building Revolution in UAE Eng. Mustafa Khalifa Environmental Researcher 16 February‚ 2008 Introduction The United Arab Emirates (UAE) consists of the seven small emirates of Abu Dhabi‚ Dubai‚ Sharjah‚ Ras Al-Khaimah‚ Ajman‚ Umm Al-Qaiwain‚ and Fujairah‚ which were united as a federal state on 2 December 1971. Before the establishment of the oil economy in the early 1960s‚ two main forms of traditional Emirati culture: the nomadic desert-oriented Bedouins with small oasis farming
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association was formed in 1906 as non-profit organization with the purpose of protecting students and setting official guidelines for sports. Since the formation of the NCAA in 1906‚ there has always been controversy of whether sports should be associated with universities and colleges. There have been numerous arguments attacking the NCAA suggesting that student-athletes are merely moneymakers for the institutions‚ rather than students‚ by earning millions of dollars
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of the school‚ and how conscious they really are at maintaining the school “green”. Lakehead currently stands as a poster child for environmentally sustainable building‚ and represents the first in Canada‚ as well as the first in Canada to meet LEED platinum status. This is a huge accomplishment for Lakehead achieving this goal to be an all green building. However this did not come cheap‚ a shocking $43 million dollars can be contributed to the environmentally sustainable status of the school
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