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, for example, the use of greenhouses in agriculture. An environmental footprint allows the environmental manager to identify the resource use activities of a populace, determine the area of land needed to provide these resources and gauge the area of land per capita
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are becoming increasingly popular is due to their many advantages. When these fuel cells are used in automobiles, less pollution is produced and neither conventional gases nor greenhouse gases are emitted since the only byproducts are heat and water. Using
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Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
is small consisting of only ten individuals who must put in 20,000 hours of work every year going over these reports to make sure everything is in order. TRI also monitors the creating and release of hydro chlorofluorocarbons (HCFC's), which are the greenhouse
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Cattle ranching has also been linked to Global Warming. The grain-fed-cattle complex is now a significant factor in the emission of three of the gases that cause the greenhouse effect- methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxides- and is likely to play an even
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such as greenhouse gas emissions or improvements in working conditions such as shorter hours because it reduces their "competitiveness" against countries that have lower standards. They often threaten to move their operations to those countries giving rise to pressures
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Category: /Science & Technology/Engineering
, they refused. At the end of 1886 Benz and Daimler were ready to 'motorize the world.'
Gottlieb met Sarazin and became good friends with him. Sarazin handled Gottlieb's legal matters in Paris and was one of the first visitors to Daimler's greenhouse
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Category: /Society & Culture/People
still more.
Secure in our sustaining belief of Exceptionalism, in our being a virtuous, dominant power, Americans are ill-prepared to accept and/or hold themselves to international norms and standards, such as land mine use, missile defense, and greenhouse
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in their mummified state [Rathje 111-12]. What little decomposition does occur in landfills generates vast amounts of methane gas, one of the significant greenhouse effect gasses. Some landfills have built-in processes to reclaim the methane from the atmosphere
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Nitrogen gas (N2): Our atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen gas, and most of this passes right through the car engine.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2): A harmless, odorless gas composed of carbon and oxygen. It is also a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming
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Warming Theory is based on the hypothesis that an increase use of carbon-based fuels will increase the greenhouse effect--the amount of the sun's energy that is absorbed by the atmosphere once it is reflect off the earth. This increase in absorbed energy
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