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What is "Environment"?
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on January 8, 2011
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Richard Carroll asked: To me, "environment" is any place we may be at any given time. It could be a pristine forest or a room in a high-rise building in the CBD. Our relationship with this environment is expressed in every breath we take - we are an integral part of our surrounds, be they natural or artificial and our actions impact directly or indirectly on them. However, most people still think of the environment as the natural systems of the world that are somehow separate from humans. Our health and well-being depend on many factors such as climate, vegetation, landscapes and the health of these systems. House design should be informed by these factors to maximize efficient energy use and living conditions.I grew up in small towns on the Atherton Tablelands in North Queensland and Read more [...]
Save Trees – Save the Environment
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on January 6, 2011
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D K Gupta asked: Today, when environment is being polluted so rigorously, everyone has only one question on his / her lips and mind that is how to save environment from being polluted. How to protect earth from disaster? The strongest way to protect environment is save trees. Trees are one of the main creations of God that play an important role to keep air clean. If there will be no fresh air available then how will human beings, animal, and birds survive? Therefore, a clean environment is the need for every living object on this earth. Many big organizations, schools, colleges, and NGOs are taking initiatives to save trees for a better future, clean air, and unpolluted environment, in short healthy life for living objects.One of the biggest initiatives to save trees is taken by Idea Read more [...]
Is Recycling Really Protecting The Environment?
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on January 6, 2011
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Greg Pierce asked: Balers are used to make recycling efficient. The waste materials of manufacturers are recycled for the sake of the environment. But does recycling alone really help the environment?Recycling programs are designed for psychological purposes which would be to get rid of consumer guilt. It is not really concerning saving the earth. The reason for this is the products themselves are not friendly to the environment. We are so much concerned about the packaging that we have forgotten if the actual products cause any harm.Consider these, detergents have toxic chemicals that pollute the waterways thru the sewage system; soda drinks with artificial sweeteners that bring about cancer or malfunctions in the neurological system; chemicals additives from household cleaning agents, Read more [...]
Creating a Cleaning Environment
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on January 1, 2011
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Steve D Evans asked: A cleaning environment is one where the pollution of the past is remediated and cleaned with time to remove existing historic risk to the environment and public health. A cleaning environment implies a return of the natural endemic local ecology, and is an ideal to strive for.We need to create a cleaning environment if our marvels of science and technology are going to be matched, and not outweighed, by many current tragedies, including human starvation in some parts of the world and extinction of other life forms. Global warming is taking place and is an increase in the Earth's average temperature. This, in turn, causes climate changes. Global warming also could cause droughts and disrupt agriculture.A cleaning environment means not despoiling the remaining parts Read more [...]
Degradation of Environment
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on December 30, 2010
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N K Ravi Shankara asked: Environment degradation is a worldwide issue which has attracted the attention of academicians, geographers, planners, economists, environmentalists and so many others, because environmental crisis is creating and enhancing the ecological imbalances and health hazards which have been a curse for humanity. It is quite easy to destroy natural resources but extremely difficult to create them. Everything has a beginning and an end. As a matter of fact, our sun will eventually die, we will also disappear and the influence of humanity on our living planet may not be significant, but for us living and the coming generations and their progeny, the environment will be ever significant. Humanity is an integral part of the environment. A person is no more than any other Read more [...]
Environment Water Soil Remediation
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on December 24, 2010
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Wendy Pan asked: The environment is constantly under assault. Water and soil remediation costs billions of dollars annually. Until the past forty years, the exact causes of water pollution went ignored. Ocean dumping was only a part of the problem. The major factor in water pollution is literally much closer to home than the enormous oceans that dwarf land masses. In many parts of the world, water is so seriously polluted that the number of deaths resulting from polluted drinking water is a common statistic. How did pure streams of water become so massively polluted? Toxic chemicals spewed into the air that manifests into toxic rainfall that ends up in waterways and soil is the answer.The environment is self-recyclable and self-cleaning---unless it is compromised by an imbalance of toxicity. Read more [...]
How Environment Plays a Role in Our Lives
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on December 22, 2010
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Michael C Miller asked: Environment is the natural world which is made by the living beings (people, animals and the plants) and land. Therefore it is the surroundings that affect the behavior and development of a living being or a thing. The surroundings may be living factors like plants, animals and decomposers and non-living things like air, water, light, soil etc.Human beings are the product of the environment. They are an important factor of the environment. It is the environment that helps us for our survival, growth, development, reproduction and health. No creature's existence is possible without the balance of the natural elements. Thus, there must be a healthy environment for our sound living. The healthier the environment the happier the living beings including humans.However, Read more [...]
How Can Technology Help the Environment?
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on December 21, 2010
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Effects of Burning Firewood on the Environment
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on December 21, 2010
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Michael A Wilson asked: There aren't many things more comforting than the feeling of warmth that comes from a wood fire. But in order to experience that warmth someone had to cut up a tree to make the firewood. Is burning wood damaging to the environment or could it actually be good for the environment?It all depends on whether or not the trees are responsibly harvested. If forests are being cleared to produce firewood and not being properly reforested then burning firewood can be damaging to the environment.In most cases forests are not being destroyed to make firewood. A lot of the time when trees are cut into firewood they are replaced by new trees or existing trees that were once too crowded. When responsibly harvested firewood can be a renewable source of energy. With modern forestry Read more [...]
Environment and Human Behavior
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on December 21, 2010
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Artur Victoria asked: The current vision of the world on environmental issues enables a greater scope and detail about what happens to the environment where they are all living beings. Disasters, tragedies, plundering and exploitation of the natural assets have been increasingly explicit in the face of human society, causing environmental imbalances leading to fatigue and the nature. The purpose of sustainability is that human beings are considered part of nature, being able to develop their actions in balance with the environment in which they live. Read more [...]