Tag: emissions
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5.9 Energy Sources: Coal
Author: Qiutian Wang ABSTRACT: This article will analyze the use of coal worldwide, the environmental impact, and possible solutions. MAIN: What is coal, how we use it, and why we need it? Coal is the most abundant fuel fossil in the world. Its main uses include generating electricity, supporting the production of cement and steel,…
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6.6 Materials: Other Natural Materials (Cotton)
Author: Karla Hristovska ABSTRACT: Cotton is one of the most commonly used natural materials in the world – largely due to the fashion industry. However, the constant need for the newest clothing items in the fashion world and a never-ending production of everyday fabrics in the textile industry makes cotton production very detrimental to the…
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6.4 Materials: Glass
Author: Amy Nguyen ABSTRACT: Glass is a material that impacts our everyday routines. From consumer products and packaging to entire city blocks flanked with glistening skyscrapers, glass has become an increasingly popular material of choice. How is this growing use of glass sustainable, and what role does this material play in our carbon emissions? MAIN:…
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6.1 Materials: Cement and Concrete
Author: Sydney Smeets ABSTRACT: Concrete is the most universally used building material that defines urban infrastructure. The chemical process to create cement and other ingredients that form this artificial rock are highly carbon intensive. It is only through rethinking this material, its chemical properties, and our reliance on it that the building industry can lower…
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8.4 Petrochemicals: Manufacture of Plastics
Author: Victoria Lindo ABSTRACT: Plastic is one material that has a very high demand all over the world. The process of manufacturing plastics is important to understand before knowing why plastics are harmful to our environment, from manufacturing to the point of disposal. MAIN: There are two main types of plastics: Synthetic plastics are the…
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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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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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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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11.2 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…
The Carbon Crisis 