...The Green Movement American Intercontinental University The Green Movement Purpose: The purpose of this lab report is to demonstrate how changes in abiotic factor such as changes in precipitation patterns can influence plant populations. Introduction: During this observation I was observe ring the plant species called Kentucky Blue Grass. In this observation I will show how changes in the weather can affect the population of the grass. I will also explain how this may have some effect on Global Warming as well. Hypothesis: My hypothesis of this lab was that if you have more rain the population of the grass will greatly increase. Along with decent to great weather to help the grass grows and become healthy. Methods: There were three different times that I changed the rainy season to last The first experiment the rainy season lasted 150 days for five years, the next season lasted 100 days for five years and the last rainy season as set to last 50 days for five years. Results: My hypothesis was correct to a certain extent. I would think that the cooler the temperature the better the population but it seems that the warner the weather is when the biggest population occur. Discussion/Analysis: During the first observation I changed the rainy season to last 150 days. When the experiment started the temperature outside was 30 degrees and the population of the grass started at 500,000. As the first year went on the population slowly raised but for the most...
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...on Green Management in chapter five. List some pros and cons to companies moving into green management. Other than companies mentioned in your textbook, describe the green efforts of one company. If your company has moved into green management describe the efforts it is taking. Where would you label your company in the “Green Approaches” of exhibit 5-4? Organizations that are doing their part in being socially responsible are sometimes known as being “green”. In my past if you were called green it meant something totally different, but in today’s business cultures it now is a good thing to be known as “green”. A lot of organizations are asking the question, to be green, or not to be green? For organizations to answer that question they need to review their own economic performances compared against their current social responsibilities (Coulter & Robbins, 2009). Some organizations have embraced this “green” movement with unmatched fervor. Interface Inc is a flooring company that provides all different types of flooring for its customers and was founded in the United States in 1972 and has recently embraced the “green” movement (Birchfield, 2009). The CEO of Interface Ray Anderson has called his companies endeavor “Mount Sustainability” and Anderson has challenged his employees to be “green” by eliminating waste, reducing energy use, and by redesigning their business operating systems (Birchfield, 2009). Ray Anderson has found the answer to his green question...
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...Review of the White Paper on Sustainability A Report on the Green Building Movement, Building Design & Construction, November 2003. Abstract In fulfillment of an assignment to review the White Paper on Sustainability: A Report on the Green Building Movement, Building Design & Construction, November 2003. The White Paper on Sustainability main elements; are the historical overview of green building, the results of a specially commissioned survey, an analysis of trends, issues, and published research. And the last one is a set of recommendations that describe specific actions to be performed. A brief history of green building is also discussed in the white paper. The basics of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) including the LEED Certification levels and points system. The role of the Federal and State government in the sustainable building program, and the benefits we get from green buildings are also covered. Main Body Sustainable building is environmentally friendly, efficient using energy, water, and other materials. Green buildings is also protects occupant health and improving productivity. On Earth Day, April 21, 1993 the US President announced the plan to make the white house a model for efficiency and waste reduction. Within 36 months the improvements to the Presidential mansion let to $300,000 in, energy, and water savings. The greening of the White House also reduces the carbon footprint by 845 tons per year. The first of three “greening”...
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...The Green Belt Movement Brad Nordstrom Grantham University The Kenyon government degraded and mismanaged the environment stripping the land of its trees and resources. This resulted in sever soil erosion which polluted the rivers and streams leaving the rural people with no clean water. In 1977, a women named Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement. Wangari Maathai, was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 2004 for founding the Green Belt Movement. Maathai is a Kenyan environmentalist and political activist who is focused on conserving the environment while ensuring womens rights and equality are brought to the forefront. The Green Belt Movement is an environmental organization that gives the power back to communities mainly to women to safeguard the environment. The reason this movement started was because in rural areas in Kenya women were reporting there streams were drying up, their food supplies were less and less and firewood was becoming scarcer. Maathai was a witness to soil erosion caused by treeless environments, she felt bound to do something to save the earth. She could not believe the results of deforesting would be the loss of exotic species and organisms. The Green Belt Movement’s mission is “to raise community consciousness on self-determination, equity, improved livelihood securities and environmental conservation using trees as an entry point.” Thanks largely to the efforts of both the GBM and the NCWK, women learn to communicate...
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...The Local Food Movement: Going Green The food system is changing very fast nowadays. As we improve the quality of our life, we also develop the new ways to supply the population with food. Our growing population’s demand on food is enormous, and this demand led to the development of the processed food industry. This industry causes a lot of problems to humanity, harming the environment and health. But for the past decades our food system has significantly changed; new movements has occurred, and one them, the “locavore” movement, which supports the idea of the consumption of the locally grown food, is developing very fast. What do people mean by “local food”? According to the article “Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues”, “the local food system is a concept, used to describe the distance between producers and consumers” (10). Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon, the authors of 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating, put the boundaries of 100-mile radius because as they say: “A 100-mile radius is large enough to reach beyond a big city and small enough to feel truly local” (qtd. in DeWeerdt 62). As this movement grows, more and more people are becoming interested in local food system, and in particular, in its benefits to society. People should eat the food, which was grown within 100 miles of their living place because the local food system can benefit the population in terms of health, environment and economy. Health is one of the most important issues in the local...
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...Why does the green movement appose GM in agriculture? Word count: 994 BSE – Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy EU – European Union GE – Genetic Engineering GM – Genetic Modification GMO – Genetically Modified Organism The green movement is a broad belief system focussing on a whole array of issues targeting such things as: technology; monopolisation of GM; alleged dangers of corporate control; risk in food, health and farming; furthermore, encompassing issues of poverty; trade and human rights (Scoones, 2008). The green movement came about in the 1970’s when people became environmentally aware and socio-political groups began to spring up. The ideals of the green movement have spread globally in the form of political parties who believe their ethics will lead to world peace (Green peace international, 2006). However, these principles encompass an extreme dislike towards GM technology. This essay explores the reasons why the green movement appose GM. The use of GM was first perceived as having many benefits such as better yield, reduced pesticide use and a reduction in food cost. However, the green movement believe GM is a risk to public health, safety and environment. Firstly, they believe genetically modified foods will cause gene disruption and modification of existing genes causing toxicity; secondly, they will cause an increase in antibiotic resistance due to gene splicing and thirdly, genes will escape into wild populations (Jerome et al., 2010; Thies &...
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...GREEN TECHNOLOGY Catherine Drake Instructor Minor July 27th 2013 Green technology what is it, Where does it come from and how do we use it? I am hoping to answer these questions to the best of my ability. “The green movement evolved considerably since the early days. Since there are some popular assumptions about environmental history that are incorrect.” (A brief history of the modern Green movement in America, WEB ECoist). The green movement can be dated back to the 19th century possibly even as far back as 1830. Back then it was called “Environmental movement.” Since this time Green technology has been referred to as environmental wako’s, tree huggers, and many more unfriendly names, however what they failed to see was what these green technology people were doing was helping the environment and the way we live our daily lives. The green movement started with Americans thinking that we should cultivate land instead of leaving it alone to be wild and free. This was a big clash between Native Americans and Americans. This soon would be forgotten until after World War II and the 1948 disaster at Donora (called the Death Fog) that prompted a national outcry. (A brief history of the modern green movement in America; Web Ecoist). Green technology took a more personal issue in the green movement, such as the issues we more centered on food safety and consumer goods. In the late 60s early 70s is when we started to see a rise in the modern green movement. Closer to...
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...CASE STUDY QUESTIONS 1. What business and social problems does data center power consumption cause? Excessive power consumption uses vast amount of electricity that must be generated through hydroelectric plants or coal-fired power plants. While hydroelectric generation plants are less stressful on the environment than coal-fired, nevertheless, they do pull resources from more useful purposes. Coal-fired power plants generate huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which some scientists and politicians claim is a major cause of global warming. Social implications of increased power consumption point to global warming. 2. What solutions are available for these problems? Which are the most environment-friendly? Some of the solutions to cut power consumption discussed in the case study are a good beginning. Building data centers that take advantage of hydroelectric power generation rather than coal-fired power plants; renewable energy projects; alternative energy; employee telecommuting; thin client computers, software that automatically turns computers off; more efficient chips. Perhaps the most environment-friendly solutions are those that control the hardware and software, thereby controlling the problem at its source. Virtualization holds great promise as a way to reduce power requirements by reducing the number of servers required to run applications. 3. What are the business benefits and costs of these solutions? Even though...
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...Information Management (MCAP-303) Perform an Internet search on the phrase “green computing” and then answer the following questions. How would you define green computing? Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT. It is also defined as "the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems—efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment.” Green computing is the environmentally responsible use of computers and related resources. Such practices include the implementation of energy-efficient central processing units (CPUs), servers and peripherals as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste (e-waste). GREEN computing is the environmentally responsible use of computers and related resources. Such included the implementation of energy-efficient central processing units as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste. Modern IT systems rely upon a complicated mix of people, networks and hardware; therefore GREEN computing initiative must be systemic in nature. GREEN computing may comprise items such as management restructuring, energy use, virtualization of server resources, and return on investment. The term “GREEN computing” was coined shortly after the Energy Star program. The Energy...
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...Assignment 3 (MCAP-303) Perform an Internet search on the phrase “green computing” and then answer the following questions. How would you define green computing? Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT. It is also defined as "the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems—such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems—efficiently and effectively with minimal or no impact on the environment.” Green computing is the environmentally responsible use of computers and related resources. Such practices include the implementation of energy-efficient central processing units (CPUs), servers and peripherals as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste (e-waste). GREEN computing is the environmentally responsible use of computers and related resources. Such included the implementation of energy-efficient central processing units as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste. Modern IT systems rely upon a complicated mix of people, networks and hardware; therefore GREEN computing initiative must be systemic in nature. GREEN computing may comprise items such as management restructuring, energy use, virtualization of server resources, and return on investment. The term “GREEN computing” was coined shortly after the Energy Star program. The Energy...
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...Semester; ROLL NO. : 107 PAPER :Major 5----- INDIAN POLITICS SINCE INDEPENDENCE. THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF PEASANT MOVEMENT IN INDIA The agrarian structure and land reforms in india have undergone a significant change since Independence both as a result of land reforms during the mid-fifties and more so as a consequence of rapid-technological changes, especially since the mid-sixties. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, increase inproduction of commercial crops and introduction of canal irrigation in some parts of india acted as a catalyst in enhancing agrarian development. However, irrigation investment was confined to only limited areas and also the archaic land relations provided a strong barrier to the full exploitation of the benefits of new technology. The land relations were more or less semi-feudal in the Permanently settled ares.Even in the Mahalwari and Ryotwariares, where land transfers had been legalized,large tracts of land had passed to absentee money-lenders and sahukars, due to large-scale peasants’ indebtedness. This resulted in peasant uprising in various parts of India. Moreover because of the non-differentiation in the peasantry and the all-embracing nature of the anti-imperialist struggle, the peasant movement was able to unite all section of the peasantry. The nature of the peasant movement in the colonial period can only be understood in the context of the then existing mode and relations of production and the unlimited...
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...would you define green computing? Green computing is the environmentally responsible use of computers and related resources. Such practices include the implementation of energy-efficient central processing units (CPUs), servers and peripherals as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste (e-waste). One of the earliest initiatives toward green computing in the United States was the voluntary labeling program known as Energy Star. It was conceived by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1992 to promote energy efficiency in hardware of all kinds. The Energy Star label became a common sight, especially in notebook computer and displays. Similar programs have been adopted in Europe and Asia. 2. Who are some of the leaders of the green computing movement? One of the spin-offs of green computing is EPEAT or Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool. EPEAT products serve to increase the efficiency and life of computing products. Moreover, these products are designed to minimize energy expenditures, minimize maintenance activities throughout the life of the product and allow the re-use or recycling of some materials. This group applies and uses green computing philosophies mainly to save up on costs rather than save the environment. This green computing concept emerged naturally as businesses find themselves under pressure to maximize resources in order to compete effectively in the market. This movement arose mainly from...
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...| | | Johnson & Wales Shane Howlett | [Origins of the Organic Movement and its impact on society] | Winter Term Honors Project FSM 1070 Professor Scott Smith T/Th 2-4 CRN: 21563 | Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….1 Origins of the Organic Movement………………………………………………………...2 Pre-World War II………………………………………………………………….3 Post-World War II………………………………………………………...…........5 Impacts of the Revolution…………………………………………………………………9 Future Plans of the Organic Revolution………………………………………………….10 The Organic Certification Process……………………………………………………….11 Negative Impacts and Criticism of the Organic Movement …………………………….12 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………….13 Works Cited……………………………………………………………………………..14 Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term. -David Suzuki The organic movement has been in swing since the early 1900’s. Many different companies, consumers and governances have all joined the bandwagon and work to further the goals of an organic world. The organic movement is no where near complete and many dedicated individuals are working to further its progress. Many retailers such as Whole Foods, Alfalfa’s, Wild Oats, and Trader Joes, are all companies dedicated...
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...Mohammad Chughtai | Assignment # 5 – Essay | MKT 410 – F13 | 9/24/2013 | The Green Revolution Al Gore spoke a few days ago at the world’s Social Good Summit about an issue that has become commonplace in today’s media: global warming. We know much of Gore’s bid for presidency in 1999, in which he ran – unsuccessfully - on a platform of responsible energy consumption. Fourteen years later, Gore is still arguing the same points, but with increased vigor. Its no surprise that after fourteen years of heavy campaigning, many Americans are well aware of the issue; in fact, many have changed their buying habits to reflect this growing concern – one the private sector has not failed to capitalize on. In this essay, I will attempt to first define global warming, touch on the “going green” movement and how it’s affecting consumer buying habits, explain how the car industry is being affected and the describe some of the motivations a company may have to “go green.” What is global warming? As with any business discussion, we must first understand the topic being discussed. Global warming debate has becoming increasingly prevalent in news media, T.V. shows and popular culture in the past few decades. Defined as an increase in the overall temperature of the earth, global warming is a topic that has been debated furiously from both sides. The EPA estimates that the earth’s temperature has risen by 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the past century. While this may not seem like much...
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...Growing greenery is our responsibility Climate change is in the news. It seems like everyone's "going green." Environmental protection is a major concern in today's society. Environmental movements are a form of new social movements alongside the women's movement. Environmentalists are concerned with the environment in its relation to human society. There are many environmental issues facing our green world today. We the new generation owe the basic responsibility of protecting our green world. Some of the issues which we can focus on to improve the earth's environment are mentioned below; Save fuel The biggest issue the world faces today; it is our dependence on oil. This dependence we have is so strong that, we have started wars for oil. It is time we do something about it and try and find an alternative form of energy. Because soon this problem will be too much for us to handle and by then it will be too late. Save energy o Set your thermostat a few degrees lower in the winter and a few degrees higher in the summer to save on heating and cooling costs. o Install compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) when your older incandescent bulbs burn out. o Unplug appliances when you're not using them. Or, use a "smart" power strip that senses when appliances are off and cuts energy use. o Wash clothes in cold water whenever possible. As much as 85 percent of the energy used to machine-wash clothes goes to heating the water. o Use a drying rack or clothesline to save the energy...
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