Green initiatives are becoming increasingly popular in our society. Green products‚ green buildings and environmentally-conscious groups are everywhere. Major corporations are taking green initiatives very seriously and taking great strides to go green for their consumers and employees. Academic institutions play a major role in our communities and it’s important for universities and colleges to also recognize their role in our environment. IUP‚ along with many other universities around the country
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In the 1940s‚ the Green Revolution was introduced to the world. The Green Revolution consisted of new methods of harvesting crops‚ fertilizers and pesticides were introduced‚ and companies were able to mass produce crops. This revolution started when the Rockefeller Foundation launched a research project to hope to improve the agriculture in Mexico#. New technological advances helped the revolution spread on account of the fact that a new‚ more effective and productive way to harvest crops was invented
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2008 APEC Clean Development Conference – The Current Applications and Future Promotion of Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development National Tsing-Hua University‚ Hsinchu‚ Chinese Taipei Dec.15.2008 Green Chemistry for the Improvement of Human Welfare Gwo-Dong Roam ‚ Wan-Yi Wu‚ Chung-Han Chiou‚ Chung-Wen Yen Office of Sustainable Development Environmental Protection Administration‚ Chinese Taipei Tel: 02-23822841; E-mail: gdroam@sun.epa.gov.tw Viewpoints & Experiences: . Roadmap:
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masses’ current favorite is the new Soylent Green. With Green‚ the Soylent Corporation has branched out a bit‚ turning‚ according to its advertising literature‚ to the vastness of the oceans for its raw materials— whereas Soylents Yellow and Red are soybean derivatives‚ Soylent Green is made from oceanic plankton‚ the closest thing to an infinite nutritional resource that the hard-pressed Earth still has to offer. Unfortunately‚ the very newness of Soylent Green means that it is in chronically short supply
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XOPS Paper Presentation Competition Date -21/11/2010 “Progression of our nation towards Go Green” 1. Introduction You only have to look around and think to understand and realize the graveness and urgency‚ of why we need to “Go Green”. The computer you are using to view this document is guzzling up power and generating heat from its processor‚ thus adding to its carbon footprint‚ this is without mentioning the hazardous metals used while making it. The clothes that you are wearing might
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Although the Green Revolution originally described developments for rice and wheat‚ high-yielding varieties HYVs have since been developed for other major food crops important to developing countries‚ including Sorghum‚ Millet‚ Maize‚ Cassava and beans. Moreover‚ a fully fledged system of international agricultural research centres now works on many aspects of developing country agriculture (the future harvest centres that make up the consultative group on international agricultural research.)
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cells. The cells are designed to generate approximately 5 percent of the building’s electricity needs. Under One Green Roof emy of Sciences’ new home‚ which is being referred to as the greenest museum in the world because of its undulating‚ 2.5 acre (1 ha) vegetated roof and a variety of other environmentally benign features‚ began with a few sweeping sketches made in green ink. The artist was Renzo Piano‚ the Pritzker Architecture Prize–winning founder of Renzo Piano Building Workshop‚ s
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In October and November I read a book called "Four Miles to Pinecone". I think it’s a good book and I have to write an essay about it. In this essay I am going to tell you about the conflicts that the main character‚ Tom Barry‚ encountered and how he handled them. First‚ I am going to talk about friendship and a conflict involving friendship in this book. Tom and Mouse were best friends. They went to Donnelly High School and lived in St. Paul. One day‚ while Tom was working at the grocery store
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PROPOSAL OF AN ENERGY SAVING LAPTOP: The Green-Series Laptop Team member: LEE SOON CHEAN LIM SHANG DA CHONG MAN LOON NATHANIEL THENG ZE ZHEAN Table of Contents i. Acknowledgment ii. Abstract 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Problem Statement 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Scope 2.0 Theory 2.1 Thermophotovoltaic cell 2.2 Piezoelectric sensor 2.3 Nano wind turbine 3.0 Modification 3.1 Collecting heat energy 3.2 Pressure exerted on keyboard 3.3 Collecting wind energy
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was 1.89 per cent and 0.68 per cent‚ respectively. Productivity gains have plateaued raising concerns about food security. All this goes to show that the country now urgently needs a follow up green revolution to the one of the 1960s which led to major breakthroughs in wheat and rice production. The next green revolution has to happen to chase the twin goals of food security and nutritional diet. Without the second revolution‚ which can be postponed at the nation’s peril‚ the supply side’s response
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