Tag: carbon footprint
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11.3 Diet: Vegetarian/Vegan
Author: Alaa Abd-El-Aatty ABSTRACT: Food’s carbon footprint is the production of greenhouses gas from growing, harvesting, manufacturing, transporting, storing, cooking as well as disposing of food. Avoiding meat and dairy products (becoming vegetarian or vegan) is one of the biggest ways to reduce environmental impact and help fight climate change. MAIN Our diet-related environmental burdens…
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11.6 Diet: Do Small Fridges Make Good Cites?
In 2007, Architect Donald Chong developed a concept called, “Small Fridges Make Better Cities,” and it essentially proposed that if we could shop locally more often, use smaller fridges, and walk to the store instead of drive. By Madeleine Jung-Grennan
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12.2 Clothing and Textiles: Materials
Author: Ugochinyere Megwa ABSTRACT: When it comes to pollution and carbon crisis, the fashion industry is one of the largest contributors in the world and gradually leading our Earth to a vulnerable position. MAIN We live in a world that is naive to the environment. During the process of any kind of mass production, especially…
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12.1 Clothing and Textiles: Fast Fashion and Waste
Author: Peiyu Si ABSTRACT: The fashion industry has been identified as the second largest polluter worldwide. The impact of its production and waste can be harmful in many aspects. Main Fast fashion refers to cheaply produced and quickly purchased clothes that imitate the latest runway styles. It emphasizes new styles delivered to consumers immediately, while…
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12.3 Clothing and Textiles: Question of leather and fur
Author: Meghan Maddock ABSTRACT: Leather and fur are part of the textile industry that is currently the second largest polluter in the world. It is estimated that the industry is responsible for 10% of the global carbon emissions. MAIN Both leather and fur have been a main source within the industry, but at a high…
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13.1 Electronics: Life Cycle Analysis-Power vs Embodied Carbon
Author: Madison Politsky ABSTRACT: The manufacturing of electronics emits large amounts of embodied carbon which negatively impact the environment. Implementing methods to prolong the lifespan of a device to prevent individuals from replacing it every couple of years will lower one’s carbon footprint. Another prevalent issue that will be discussed is the power consumption in…
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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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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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14.7 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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