Essays on Environmental Education

In recent times, there has been the emergence of the nuisance of the pollution of the atmosphere by the improper disposal of synthetic resin or plastic bags as most call it. This is an unfolding catastrophe that has been overlooked for too long and has…

Plastic bags have been branded among the top environmental pollutants globally. Plastic bags are non-biodegradable and can only photodegraded. This process involves breaking down the plastics into smaller toxic pieces. Yet, as they break down, these particles have adverse impacts on the soil through contamination…

Science and engineering to a large extent live in separate worlds with their journals and conferences. It, therefore, took several years for thermodynamics to enter engineering circles. Well, in this article, ‘Current Trends in Finite-Time Thermodynamics,’ the author, Bjarne Andresen (a Professor of Physics at…

The modern man has coexisted with the earth’s inhabitants in relative harmony, for what has been speculated to be around 200,000 years. However, towards and throughout the 20th century, the human population skyrocketed, and the need for food, supplies and desire for the development of…

Water pollution is described as the contamination of water and can occur in a number of ways. When water contamination comes to mind most individuals often think of giant oil spills caused by oil tankers spilling into the oceans, or sewage run offs deposited from…

Climate change is when the weather patterns changes. It’s something that we should all be concerned, because it affects the environment and everything that lives in it. It is a debatable subject in which not a lot of people agree. When it comes to the…

The aim of this essay is to talk about how subsidies encouraged the growth of electric cars in Norway, their effect and research other examples where subsidies were introduced as well. Nowadays, climate change is a major issue, therefore electric cars are getting more and…

This paper seeks to delve into the attitudes that cause residents of Extension 11 in Ikageng to engage in littering behaviour. This paper shows that residents in Ikageng have a positive attitude towards littering and this contributes greatly to the degree of litter in their…

The aim of this research was to identify the littering manner of students who studies at villa college, and to figure out how and why littering is unnecessary. We gave the questionnaire to 10 random students from Villa College to fill it out so that…

Both graffiti and littering can be harmful for a number of reasons. Graffiti in a community serves as an eyesore, induces a potential risk to the transgressor and can contribute towards people’s fear of crime in area. Graffiti also causes the value of the LNR…

In the seminar conducted in the Earth and Space Science Department, Ralph Haugerud discusses “The Last Glaciation of NW Washington: hysteresis of a marine based ice sheet”. The main focus of this seminar was to talk about the retreat of the Juan de Fuca lobe…

The work done by Robbins is extremely informative and intriguing. After the reading I have a heightened understanding of why Political Ecology is necessary to avoid or heal dire circumstances. This reflection is focused on the significance of creating a fair socioeconomic world for other…

This is the discussion of environmental sustainability and resilience objectives. They have been discussed in a manner that places each objective as a sub-topic, where answers of the three questions are answered under each objective sub-topic, which are their feasibility, current state of progress with…

Typically, when considering ecological restoration, what comes to mind is the renewal and restoration of natural ecosystems and habitats that have been damaged, degraded, or destroyed by human intervention to their original, un-intervened form. However, recently published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, is a…

Theoretical Background Thousands of years ago, burying wastes have already been an effective way in helping the environment. However, because of the increase in population in the present time, digging a hole is not enough. With the larger number of human population, equates larger amount…