producing large mass products and manufacturing on a large scale is what gives heavy industry its name. These industries include manufactures of mass transport such as ships and trains‚ oil refineries‚ mining industries‚ and steel manufacturing. As these industries operate on such a large scale they require a lot of resources such as energy and money to fund them. They also require a lot of industrial space. These heavy industries are usually found in the primary and secondary sector dealing with
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Management – Understanding Carbon Finance Sudha.S Introduction Environmental consciousness is taking its shape in various dimensions in today’s complex business world. The five mega issues which are impacting the behaviour of companies and in turn their strategies are the Climate Change‚ Polution/Health Consciousness‚ Globalization backlash‚ Energy Crunch and Erosion of Trust.[1] The finance sector is impacted because the world commands a hefty price for Carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse
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Topic 9 - The Carbon Cycle Aspects of the carbon cycle are similar to the hydrologic cycle because both are good examples of “Interactions between the systems". Textbook – topic not covered in text. http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/ The Carbon Cycle Neglecting the small amount of carbon (C) added to Earth by meteorite impacts‚ there is a fixed amount of carbon on Earth (~800‚000 billion tonnes). All living things are made of carbon but carbon is also a part of the ocean‚ air‚ and
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The coconut is popularly known as the tree of life. The coconut is considered such because of the many uses it can provide‚ starting from its roots up to its main fruit and still up to its very leaves. This wonder tree is so versatile it can generate different goods which are made available and sold in the market. Its products that are generally commercialized include coconut oil‚ copra meal‚ desiccated coconut and copra cake. All the goods that we derive from the coconut are indeed very helpful
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ABSTRACT We are in debt to Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and other green house gases for our presence on earth. As they help in stabilizing temperatures to levels sustainable for organic life – by what is known as green house effect. In modern times burning of fossil fuels like coal‚ oil‚ and natural gas combined with fast deforestation has led to unprecedented level of green house gas emission. Here came in to existence the concept of Carbon Emission Trading developed during the Kyoto Protocol in 1997
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Heavy Rain Trying to rescue your own son from a serial killer by completing a set of painful‚ heart-wrenching trials‚ Heavy Rain was one of the most touching and depressing (and one of the greatest) video games I have ever played showing the true nature and consequences of people’s morality when their human reasoning is put to the test. "Human reason" generally refers to the human being’s capacity to use logic and make judgments related to knowledge and‚ depending on who you read‚ ethics. (Yahooansweres)
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new land. Many species are economically important to humans‚ including Nylon Shells (Phapia undulata). It is also becoming understood that the well-being of marine organisms and other organisms are linked in very fundamental ways. The human body of knowledge regarding the relationship between life in the sea and important cycles is rapidly growing‚ with new discoveries being made nearly every day. Bivalves have a shell consisting of two asymmetrically rounded halves called valves that are mirror
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INTRODUCTION: Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. Its headquarters are in The Hague‚ the Netherlands. It was founded in 1907. The parent company of the Shell group is Royal Dutch Shell plc‚ which is incorporated in England and Wales. They have around 93‚000 employees in more than 90 countries and territories. The company has worldwide proved reserves of 14.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent. The company operates 43‚000 gas stations (the world’s largest retail fuel network)
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Extraction of metals The History of Metals. Metals have been used by people for many thousands of years. Gold and silver‚ found as native metal‚ were used both as jewellery and as a status symbol - nothing new there. These metals were known in the Stone Age‚ but gold and silver are too soft to be used as tools. The first really useful metal to be discovered was bronze. This began the Bronze Age. Bronze was used extensively for tools and weapons in Asia and Africa from 4‚500 B.C. (6‚500 years
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Resources‚ Conservation and Recycling 21 (1997) 145–173 Metals recycling: economic and environmental implications Robert U. Ayres * INSEAD‚ Boule6ard de Constance‚ F-77305‚ Fontainebleau‚ France Received 17 July 1997; accepted 27 July 1997 Abstract We are in a period of economic transition. The ‘cowboy economy’ of the past is obsolescent‚ if not obsolete. Environmental services are no longer free goods‚ and this fact is driving major changes. Recycling is the wave of the (immediate) future
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