To: Council of Executive Vice Presidents Date: 1th of November‚ 2012 From: Anders Fædder Subject: Evaluation of REI’s sustainability goals I am writing in response to your inquiry regarding the plausibility of maintaining the continuous growth of the company as well as satisfying its sustainability goals. The following sections will address the three issues‚ mentioned by top management‚ by first describing them‚ then interpreting them and lastly they will be evaluated. Conclusion and recommendations
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How Modern Transport Fuels Effect our Environment Why is looking at alternate fuels important? There are several reasons‚ but the most important reason is that air pollution kills in the neighborhood of 3 million people every year and air pollution affects more than 1 billion people in a negative way. That ’s over 1/6 of the earths population being harmed by air pollution‚ that ’s a trend that cannot continue without extreme repercussions to everyone on the planet. Granted‚ air
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Global Warming Table of Contents Page What is Global Warming 4 How Does It Affect Me 4 What Can We Do To Make It Better 5 Why I Am Interested In Global Warming 6 Should We Be Concerned 6 Has This Ever Happened Before 6 The End Result 7 Works Cited 8 What is Global Warming Global warming has begun to see much more publicity in recent years. Studied by scientists since the Industrial Revolution‚ it is the increase in warm temperatures near
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A carbon footprint is a way to measure the impact that we have on the environment. The carbon footprint relates to the amount of greenhouse gases that are produced through burning fossil fuels for electricity‚ heating‚ and transportation. There are two sections to the carbon footprint: primary footprint and secondary footprint. The primary footprint is a measure of the emissions of CO2 that we have control over such as the burning of fossil fuels in furnaces and water heaters‚ and for transportation
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Box Coverts Beer Waste to Bio-Gas Cambrian Innovation has now come up with ways to easily convert beer waste into bio-gas‚ which can be used to power large scale factories‚ businesses‚ and even schools by using less energy. Matthew Silver‚ CEO of Cambrian Innovation studied bioelectric systems that could potentially be used to manage water in space‚ in doing so he saw a great opportunity to develop a certain microbe that could clean the industry’s water and make it reusable time after time. While
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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Carbon atoms: * Carbon-carbon bonds are not easily broken * Each carbon atom forms 4 covalent bonds * The C-H bond is almost non-polar Classifying organic compounds: * Number of carbon atoms in longest chain: meth‚ eth‚ prop‚ but‚ pent‚ hex‚ hept‚ oct‚ non‚ dec * If it is a branch: -yl; di‚ tri or tetra means there is more than one branch‚ ethyl means there are 2 carbons coming off the branch * If it is a ring of carbons put cyclo at the front of the
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The Berkeley Pit: Friend or Foe? What would you say if I told you that there exists a body of water so toxic that it kills almost all that touches it? A place where pure water meets vile and vicious chemicals deemed cinema worthy‚ and is visible from space! In the city of Butte‚ Montana‚ the hazardous Berkeley Pit is a cesspool of toxic chemicals and crimson water that may create disastrous consequences for the ecosystem of Montana; but could something so sinister act as a way to better ourselves
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Although‚ mercury is a naturally occurring element‚ most of the mercury that comes in contact with us or the ecosystem is developed from human industrial factories‚ such as coal mines. Additionally‚ Studies have estimated there has been a 20 percent increase in mercury emission due to anthropogenic (coal mines) use in the last 150 years (1). Coal has become the major resource due to having the highest potential of becoming a significant energy resource compared to other fossil fuels. One of the
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Hundreds of countries‚ world leaders and even Obama are talking about this. News reporters are making claims and millions are denying or agreeing. People of higher power are calling on activists‚ and new laws are being made every day supporting this. Everywhere you go it’s all about energy effiency and new products being made that don’t give off CO2 emissions. It makes you wonder... does climate change really matter? Global warming is the increase of the earths average surface temperature caused
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The climate group Meacham river is from is the tundra. This climate group has a continuous amount of snow and never warms above 10° C as stated by Geosystems: An Introduction to Physical Geography. January to June is the season of winter because there is little or no water increase meaning there is a lack of moisture. Therefore‚ there is no vegetation growing in these months and the soil moisture is charged resulting in a surplus. July to April is the spring as there is a vast amount of water increase
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