Tag: climate change
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2.7 Climate Change Effects: Migration
There are numerous impacts that climate change has on humanity and there have been large events that lead to major population shifts, which will be depicted below. This sector will focus on the migration of populations due to environmental factors and the earth’s changing climate. By Alyssa Stellato
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4.6 Carbon: Carbon inequality
To better understand what carbon inequality is, we’ll first be looking at what is known as the carbon budget. Then we’ll discuss what the issue is with carbon inequality, how it affects the global population both geographically and socio-economically, and why it should inform climate change policies. By Wandia Muchiri
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3.11 Dealing with Climate: Jevons Paradox
Jevons Paradox refers to the idea that technological advancements in sustainability or increased efficiency results in increased natural resource consumption, creating a rebound effect. By Rebecca Thompson.
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7.16 Design: Fast Furniture
Fast furniture has become one of the most flawed retail practices over the past sixty years. Today, furniture companies reach for cheap disposable materials instead of resilient and sustainable choices. By Megan Friedrich
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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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12.2 Clothing and Textiles: Materials
The fashion industry is increasingly profiting from our culture of overconsumption, however, there are many people who are beginning to acknowledge these issues that have encouraged slow fashion consumption and movements within the fashion industry. This includes where, and how a fibre or textile and sourced, how they are treated and who that affects along…
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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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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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11.2 Diet: Alternatives to Meat – Faux Meat
The faux meat industry is receiving traction throughout recent years because there is an increase in consumers considering healthy diets, there is the concern about rising meat prices, an increase in the popularity of vegetarianism, and there has been proficient research that’s done on meat alternatives in comparison to the consumption of red meat. By…
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16.9 Certification Systems: Net Zero
Net-Zero is the goal of producing zero greenhouse gas emissions or offsetting the emissions we do produce. By Caitlin Boyes
The Carbon Crisis 