...culmination of data produced from the rovers that are currently sending data to us from Mars. (http://www.googleearth.com, go to Mars entry) We now know there are natural resources available to use to sustain life, and harvesting them will lead to our first colony being started and expanding there. The question arises, as to how to get there, and with careful thought, the technology that we now possess will certainly deliver us there to Mars. The first fact to consider is that we have a natural satellite that is only approximately 252,000 miles away from us, which is the Moon. (www.answers.ask.com) (http://www.chacha.com) We also have the International Space Station, revolving around the earth. (http://wiki.answers.com) We are also going to be building an outer space vehicle that is larger than the Gemini space capsule, but will be built to go deeper into space and stay there longer. On January 14, 2004, then President George W. Bush announced the “Orion” spacecraft. This spacecraft is a replacement of the space shuttle program and any space plane designs, and the project to extend human presence into the solar system is named “Constellation”. Project Constellation will be carried out in three stages. 1) Once the International Space Station completes its new docking assembly, the U.S. Core must be completed within approximately six or seven flights. The new “Crew Exploration Vehicle” (CEV) will...
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...Project Purpose This is a comprehensive project that you will work on throughout the course. You will work in groups to solve a problem using the theories, formulas, and concepts from this class. Course Objectives Execute problem-solving actions appropriate to completing a variety of case study assignments. Apply critical reading to identify the meaning of information in a problem statement. Apply analytical and logical thinking to extract facts from a problem description and determine how they relate to one another and to the problem(s) to be solved. Provide symbolic, verbal, and graphical interpretations of statements in a problem description. Apply analytical tools for evaluating the causes and potential implications of a problem. Generate potential solutions to a problem and determine the best course of action with regard to effectiveness, efficiency, and mitigation of risks. Design methodology for implementing problem solution(s). Develop tools for evaluating implementation of problem solution. Required Resources Textbook ITT Tech Virtual Library Project Logistics Select ONE of the following three projects: A, B, or C. You may work individually or in a group. Because of the workload, working in groups is recommended. Working as an individual on this project is discouraged. Project Deliverables Four written reports Final report Project presentation (Unit 10) Each written report must have the following items: APA formatting, double-spaced...
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...Project Purpose This is a comprehensive project that you will work on throughout the course. You will work in groups to solve a problem using the theories, formulas, and concepts from this class. Course Objectives Execute problem-solving actions appropriate to completing a variety of case study assignments. Apply critical reading to identify the meaning of information in a problem statement. Apply analytical and logical thinking to extract facts from a problem description and determine how they relate to one another and to the problem(s) to be solved. Provide symbolic, verbal, and graphical interpretations of statements in a problem description. Apply analytical tools for evaluating the causes and potential implications of a problem. Generate potential solutions to a problem and determine the best course of action with regard to effectiveness, efficiency, and mitigation of risks. Design methodology for implementing problem solution(s). Develop tools for evaluating implementation of problem solution. Required Resources Textbook ITT Tech Virtual Library Project Logistics Select ONE of the following three projects: A, B, or C. You may work individually or in a group. Because of the workload, working in groups is recommended. Working as an individual on this project is discouraged. Project Deliverables Four written reports Final report Project presentation (Unit 10) Each written report must have the following items: APA formatting, double-spaced...
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...Unit 6 Assignment 1: MyFoundationsLab Module 5 Learning Objectives and Outcomes Apply analytical and logical thinking to extract information. Assignment Requirements Log into MyFoundationsLab, and complete the Skills Assessment in Module 5: Ratio, Proportion and Percent. Note: You are encouraged to work ahead in MyFoundationsLab. If you finish a module early, or if there is an assignment that refers to a later module, feel free to move ahead. All modules must be complete by the end of the quarter to give you the best chance of success in follow-on courses. Required Resources Textbook MyFoundationsLab Submission Requirements Print a screen shot showing completion of the Skills Assessment in Module 5 of MyFoundationsLab. Grading Rubric 0 points if you don’t turn in your screenshot. 50 points for completing your assessment and turning in your screen shot. 100 points for completing your assessment, earning a score higher than 75, and turning in your screen shot showing your gold star for Module 5. Note, there are three ways you can show mastery, and each of those will result in a gold star on the module in the Learning Path. First, you can take and pass the Skills Check. Second, you can work through all the topics that are recommended for you. Finally, you can take and pass the post test. All of these methods will generate the gold star on your Learning Path. Unit 6 Problem Set 1: Blimp Exercise Learning Objectives and Outcomes Apply analytical...
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...its inhabitants do not exist separately. They both help to mold one another. There are different environments that require a different behavior. To understand the interactions of the physical world and the behavior, individuals must consider the kinship of physical inhabitants and the environment itself (Todd & Wilson, 1993). The information in this paper will provide an understanding of the following: how the environment affects human behavior, architecture as a means of controlling behavior, the environmental psychological implications of the grand design, and the importance of architecture supporting development. Structures and Human Behavior The increasing research and interest in environmental conditions and how it relates to behavior is finally receiving acknowledgement. Structural design influences an individual’s health and well-being. A person’s mood and productivity stems from the kind of architecture one is sees. In a business sense, the goal is to create buildings that fit the need of the individual and serve the purpose of the business. Space limitations may influence an individual to work more intensely for the right to privacy. The use of windows and indoor green spaces provide a relaxing stress free zone from work (Irvine, Devine-Wright, Payne, Fuller, Painter, and Gaston, 2009). Inside the home of individuals, Feng Shui is rising in popularity. Feng Shui is about living in balance in the environment. Using Feng Shui can improve energy...
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...GS1140_Burke Mindy Cohen Project B: Living on another Planet/Designing a Green building Biosphere-Project — Dan Burke’s Class Purpose - A Feasibility Study - to see how different planetary light cycles/ seasonal changes and isolation does to the behavior of 25 humans, plants and animals on the surface of Mars. Duration of experiment 5 Years. **** (Why this project is not feasible at this time--We can’t work/live safely on the surface of mars without getting radiation poisoning, the atmosphere is too thin for us to breathe. It’s consists mostly of carbon dioxide, and temperatures on Mars can dip down to -87 degrees C, and rarely get above 0 degrees C). We definitely should first try to build something similar on earth, perhaps on the ocean surface or on the ocean floor- this also would be very difficult, but at least if anything goes wrong, we are not so far from home. MARS – What resources are readily available on the Surface? Weather Conditions, Gravity. How long is a day, Seasonal changes? Soil conditions? In 2013, NASA's Curiosity rover discovered that Mars' soil contains between 1.5% and 3% water by mass (about two pints of water per cubic foot or 33 liters per cubic meter, albeit attached to other compounds and thus not freely accessible). Besides silicon and oxygen, the most abundant elements in the Martian crust are iron, magnesium, aluminum, calcium, and potassium. The Phoenix lander returned data showing Martian soil to be slightly alkaline and containing elements...
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...Milky Way Galaxy, the Sol System, 4.2 billion years ago, rock and ice particles swirling around a very young sun collide and merge, producing large planetoids. One of them, an infant planet we have come to call home, is born. This planet will later be named Earth. At this point the baby Earth is nothing more than a scorching inferno of magma and vaporized rock, spitting up nothing more than magma volcanoes. This infant planet is very different from the one we know today. Its atmosphere is comprised of deadly gasses and probably had a sky the color of a pinkish-orange. Its oceans containing large quantities of dissolved iron were most likely a kind of brown color. Life on early Earth began with very little amounts of oxygen compared to the quantities we have today, it was comprised of primitive elements and very slowly evolved into the Earth we know today. Had you been on Earth all that time ago, when it was just beginning to evolve, you would have died with just a few deep breaths! Earth’s early atmosphere contained little or no oxygen. It was primarily comprised of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and nitrogen, with smaller amounts of carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and hydrogen cyanide. Over time a controversial question emerged, could organic molecules assemble under the conditions on early Earth? In 1953, biochemists Stanley L. Miller and Harold C. Urey conducted an experiment to find these answers; they tested for what kind of environment would be needed to allow life to...
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...Green Living In San Francisco Garden of Eden Complex Problem Solving Location/Climate The chosen city for building this green architectural apartment complex will be located in San Francisco, CA. This location is chosen by it’s mild temperatures all year long not getting too cold nor too hot. San Francisco’s weather ranges from 46 to 75 degrees. According to Wikipedia San Francisco only exceeds 75 degrees slightly from May to October. San Francisco has plenty of beaches from the Pacific Ocean. During the summer is warm but breezy from the winds off the Pacific and during the winter it does not snow. It does rain frequently from November through March, which sustains life to the environment and to creatures around in the area. San Francisco provides a great environment ideal for green economic building. It gives the perfect palate for the canvas of green building. This environment climate is ideal for benefits towards the community and residence of the complex. Climate will play a role in how the building is constructed and steps taken for energy conservation. The use of natural resources will assist in many ways such the winds off the Pacific to help cool residences off in the evening and reducing the heat palate. There will be a windmill design on the property to use natural winds from the Pacific to power the complex reducing the energy usages especially during the summer. The fact San Francisco does not have extremely harsh winters leaves open possibilities for residences...
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...“Go Green” A Sustainable Development Stacy Hohn-Sosa DeVry University Sustainable Development “Go Green” is a slogan that is pushed on society with the intention to bring awareness to sustainability. In Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, the issue of agriculture sustainability is presented. True sustainability is not just agriculture; it is all the natural renewable resources available in the world. Humans do not realized the amount of packaged products they consume in a day or the harmful chemicals that we pollute the earth with when we drive or apply them to agriculture. As consumers we look for convenient, cheap, and accessibility to minimize the time needed in order to perform everyday tasks. Until humanity grasps how these every day products are hazardous not only chemically but also on our natural resources; we as a people will continue to consume un-renewable resources. By increasing the concept of a sustainable development, humanity will use fewer nonrenewable resources such as petroleum’s and fossil fuels and rely on renewable resources such as solar energy. Without a defined structure of true sustainability; governments, corporations, businesses, companies and individuals will continue to depreciate the Earth’s natural resources until it is uninhabitable. “All definitions of sustainable development require that we see the world as a system—a system that connects space; and a system that connects time.”(EurActiv, 2004) Sustainability...
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...Week 5 - Research Project INF 103 Computer Literacy September 2, 2013 GREEN TECHNOLOGY Even though Green Technology is expensive, we should use the technology. Green technology is a technology that is environmentally friendly, and will encourage innovation and changes to one’s daily life. There are three types of green technology. There is green energy, green transportation, and green building. Pollution must be diminished to moderate global warming. The encouraged use of green technology may increase the healthiness of the Planet. Green energy is renewable energy source, unlike fossil fuels. Even though green technology appears unaffordable, it is more efficient and lessens greenhouse gasses. Energy is extremely essential to everyday life. Individuals use energy to warm the home, keep the lights on, and the groceries refrigerated. Solar power is another energy source. There are currently one-hundred and sixty-five customer-owned solar electric systems in Madison, Wisconsin (Green Power Tomorrow, 2013) The expense for the installation of solar power for the home in Dane County, Wisconsin is thirty-thousand dollars. The cost-effectiveness of solar power depends on the following; how much sunlight one receives, where one lives, electricity usage, and the size of the solar system. (Chua, 2006) Solar panels are an excellent way to acquire the suns energy to deliver one with energy. Solar panels consist of a series of photovoltaic cells connected together. When the...
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...i have seen lands that have been turned from jungle into desserts by people in a matter of a couple of years ,because of the slash and burn method used by settlers and expanding agriculture,and i have seen rivers dry up because of deforrestation in many places in Africa and Mexico , i live now by the side of a river in Mexico where,in 30 years 5 species of fish have become exstinct . and part of the year the river is dry this is for longer every year because of over use of agriculture and deforrestation.every year there are natural cycles in the planets life but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms some home truths politicians and scientists who work for politicians have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many people income,and most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on. in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss anddesertification in recent times thousands of people have died because of exessive heat,usually old people.in India ,Mexico and France, deforestation causing desertification,the desert conditions causing very cold nights and scorching hot days in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from...
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...Green Depot: The Eco-Friendly Way Kaplan University In this report I will put into words my interpretations of the marketing mix of Green Depot. “The marketing mix is the set of controllable, tactical marketing tools that the firm blends to product the response it wants in the target market” (Armstrong & Kotler, 2010, p. 81). Marketing Mix Analysis Overview Green Depot is the eco-friendly version of Home Depot. Providing “environmentally friendly and sustainable building products, services and home solutions” (Green Depot, About us 2005). I would analyze the marketing mix of Green Depot as adequate. The company’s primary goal is incorporate “green living and building in communities so it is easy, affordable and gratifying” (Green depot, 2005). I choose only adequate because green living although in the future may be affordable currently it is in fact a bit expensive. This company was founded in 2005 by Sarah Beatty her purpose to make green services readily available and easily adopted into standard construction operations was successful. Green Depot has created a unique filter to gage whether or not the products are in fact “green”. This filter focuses on five categories air quality, local, social responsibility, energy conservation. By use of their “proprietary filter” Green Depot has been set apart from the greenwashing stigma “a form of corporate misrepresentation where the company will present a green public image and publicize green initiatives that...
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...emissions are coming from -- they’re coming out of our tailpipes[3] and smokestacks[4] and so forth, and we say, okay, well the problem is that they’re coming out of fossil fuels[5] that we’re burning, so therefore, the answer must be to replace those fossil fuels with clean sources of energy. And while, of course, we do need clean energy, I would put to you that it’s possible that by looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we’re in fact setting ourselves up not to solve it. And the reason why is that we live on a planet that is rapidly urbanizing. That shouldn’t be news to any of us. However, it’s hard sometimes to remember the extent of that urbanization. By mid-century, we’re going to have about eight billion -- perhaps more -- people living in cities or within a day’s travel of one. We will be an overwhelmingly urban species. In order to provide the kind of energy that it would take for eight billion people living in cities that are even somewhat like the cities that those of us in the global North[6] live in today, we would have to generate an absolutely astonishing amount of energy. It may be possible that we are not even able to build that much clean energy. So...
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...Pursuit of a Green Solution Since the start of industrialization the world’s climate has gone through radical changes due to the increased release of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, and the resulting depletion of the ozone layer. If the depletion continues at this rate, the world will come to an end soon, possibly just after two or three generations. Governments all over the world understand the importance of the problem; however they have limited themselves to taking small steps to address global warming. Bill McKibben addresses the people of the globe in his book “Eaarth-- Making a Life on a Tough New Planet” to educate them about the magnanimity of the problem, through statistics he convinces the readers that the time to reduce the production of greenhouse gasses by shifting to green technology by 2025 has ended already, which is the solution suggested by most of the governments; the earth has almost reached the limits of the environment. If we continue producing greenhouse gasses in the ways we have done before, we will soon cross those limits, and then we would have to face the consequences as a result. According to McKibben, people need to make drastic changes in their lifestyle if they want to save the earth as it is right now, we have already lost how it used to be but there is still some time to salvage what we have, and to do that McKibben suggests “My point throughout this book has been that we’ll need to change to cope with the new Eaarth...
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...Green and Sustainable Changes Matt Itter BUS 304 December 10, 2012 Liz Rohleder Green and Sustainable Changes This paper will describe some of the green initiatives that Coca-Cola is implementing company wide. Also this researcher will identify the driving force behind those initiatives and explain how the company plans to implement the International Organization for Standards (ISO) 14000 protocols. The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, refreshing consumers with nearly 500 sparkling and still brands. Globally, they are the number one provider of sparkling beverages, juices and juice drinks and ready-to-drink teas and coffee (The Coca-Cola Company). With an enduring commitment to building sustainable communities, Coca-Cola is focused on initiatives that protect the environment, conserve resources and enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate. The Coca-Cola Company has a strong belief in their mission, vision and values of the company. It is our goal for the immediate future to create a long-term destination for our business (The Coca-Cola Company). The mission of Coca-Cola Company is to refresh the world by inspiring moments of optimism and happiness, and to create value and make a difference (The Coca-Cola Company). Their vision is to accomplish the six P’s: people, portfolio, partners, planet, profit, and productivity. Coca-Cola has provided a great atmosphere to inspire their employees to be the best...
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