Tag: carbon footprint
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15.3 Urban Design: Walkability (2)
Walkability is a measurable factor in areas to determine how friendly an area is to walk in. Effects of walkability can greatly vary, they include but are not limited to climate change, traffic, economy and general health. By Thomas Mead
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9.13 Transportation: Cargo Bike Evolution
This paper talks about the evolution of cargo bikes and the reasons why Cargo bikes are seeing resurgence in today’s world in everyday lives of regular citizens, as well as in the logistical systems. By Eka Jeladze
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6.9 Materials: Wood Construction and Carbon Storage
Wood construction plays an important role in minimizing environmental effects since wood helps mitigate the effects of the climate crisis by reducing greenhouse gasses through carbon sequestration. By Issabella Gaglia
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14.5 Waste: The Circular Economy
Circular economy is a model intending to produce sustainable development while increasing economic regrowth through methods such as reusing, repairing, repurposing, and recycling. In order to take items that are obsolete and create new resources. By Mikayla Densa
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7.15 Building Design: Retrofit vs New
What is better for the environment, retrofitting old structures or starting from scratch with new construction? This paper explores the issue of carbon emissions within buildings, which account for 30% of all carbon emissions in the world, and how to decarbonize structures both new and old. By Rennie Taylor
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3.8 Dealing with Climate: Carbon Offsets
The climate is changing, and tools such as carbon offsets are implemented to mediate the shared human impact on global warming and climate change. Carbon offsets are a way to balance personal carbon footprints and reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the Earth’s atmosphere by funding or investing in environmental projects. By Juliene Bandayrel
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2.4 Climate change effects: Wildfires
Wildfires cause devastation; they destroy properties, natural resources, and threaten both humans and animal lives. Although wildfires are a natural and seasonal occurrence and have their evolutionary advantages; however, the disadvantages are growing and taking a toll on our earth. By Frederique de Raucourt
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3.9 Dealing With Climate: Decoupling
While economic growth persists as a presiding societal objective, its cyclical relationship with climate emissions has demonstrated that neither can be sustained without harmful environmental repercussions. Decoupling, a dissolution of the aforementioned relationship, has since been proposed as a means of establishing an economy capable of continual growth without inflicting further damage to the environment.…
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11.6 Diet: Environment and Urban Sustainability
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, it would open up our neighbourhoods to less traffic and more lively and connected communities. By Madeleine Jung-Grennan
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3.16 Dealing with Climate: Environmental Impacts of Pets
This paper uses cats and dogs as a way to show the environmental impact pets are having on the environment. By Logan Brown-DaSilva
The Carbon Crisis 