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13.2 Electronics: Cloud – gaming, Netflix and Storage
Author: Emaan Murad ABSTRACT: This article discusses the positive effects of Cloud Computing on the environment and how companies are acknowledging these benefits to help produce clean energy. MAIN Cloud Computing at its basic is the accessing Associate in storing info in an external location instead of a local one. This includes the pay-as-you-go rating…
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13.4 Electronics: The Carbon Footprint of Social Media
Author: Shang, li ABSTRACT: Climate change is one of the most important challenges of our century, and its relevance to Carbon Dioxide (CO2) has been widely confirmed in scientific research. Despite the rising attention on this issue, many human-related activities have a hidden negative impact in terms of CO2 emissions. MAIN In today’s society, the…
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11.1 Diet: Meat
Author: Guocheng (Sam) Huang ABSTRACT: Meat consumption has increased globally, to meet the food security, the meat production will need more land to produce feed-crop and convert nature to farmland. Nevertheless, the production accounts for 14.5 % GHC emission which is challenging the Paris Agreement to keep under 2 degrees Celsius by 2050. MAIN Meat…
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14.1 Waste: Recycling
Author: Kara Rotermund ABSTRACT: Recycling is an industrial practice, operating within an open loop system. Before this method of waste reduction can function at its most efficient to successfully reduce carbon emissions and waste, we must examine our current model of production and alternative methods. MAIN: Discerning how recycling fits into the current production model,…
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14.2 Waste: Waste Incineration to Energy
By Madeline Althouse ABSTRACT: In the linear economy, there are a few methods of waste disposal. Waste incineration to energy is often thought of as a ‘less bad’ alternative to landfill, where waste can be converted to power and heat. However, a look into the carbon footprint of incineration and the role it plays in…
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14.5 Waste: Circular Economy
Author: Nadia Kudritska ABSTRACT: Circular Economy is creating a closed loop system without waste. MAIN: Kenneth Boulding started with ‘open economy’ versus a ‘closed economy’. Later in 1989, David W. Pearce and R. Kerry Turner highlighted that linear-economics is designed to treat the environment as a dumping ground. As such, they advocated for recycling. In…
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14.6 Waste: Zero Waste
Author: Havana Rodriguez Castro ABSTRACT: Zero waste is the conservation of all resources by all possible means, this includes in the production, consumption, and reuse of products and their packaging (Zero Waste Alliance, 2018). The Goal is ethical and economic efficiency. So, no it is not just recycling. It is a conscious change in lifestyle…
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14.7 Waste: Food Packaging
Author: Lauren Kennedy ABSTRACT: The useless over-packaging of our food not only causes harm to the environment, but also to human health. MAIN As Earth’s landfills and waterways become consumed and clogged with plastic bags, take out containers, straws, coffee cups and more; it is evident that food packaging has outweighed a number of other…
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16.2 Certification Systems: Living Building Challenge
Author: Jasmeet Rattan ABSTRACT: The Living Building Challenge (LBC), is a grading system for sustainable buildings that aim to minimize the resources used to construct and maintain these spaces and promote sustainability through empathetic design. MAIN: Founded by world-renowned Jason F. McLennan, the Living Building Challenge (LBC) is a building rating system that aims to…
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16.4 Certification Systems: WELL
Author: Amy Ngo ABSTRACT: The WELL Building Standard® is a performance-based system for measuring, certifying, and monitoring features of the built environment that impact human health and wellbeing, through air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, and mind. MAIN WELL is managed and administered by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), a public benefit corporation (figure…
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