Proposal – Who Wants a Green Lake?

Phosphorus runoff from farms and lawns in the western NY watershed, leading to algal blooms in Lake Ontario, has become a major environmental and health concern. To help restore the health and beauty of Lake Ontario, it is important to increase awareness of the harmful effects of phosphorus runoff, the actions required to reduce runoff, [...]

Essay #2: Proposal-Even three year olds can help save the world

To’Mika Cooksey English 213 Essay #2 Even three-year olds can help save the world Fairbanks, AK might seem like a small city, but it still has its problems like a big city. One of the problems is recycling- which process used materials to make new materials. It basically prevents useful materials from being wasted, which [...]

Essay 2-Proposal:Natural gas, brown outs, and wood stoves

With the price of gasoline and diesel what they are today, energy is a huge concern for everyone, including Alaskans. Alaska has found a way to use natural gas as an energy source. This allows Anchorage and other cities to pay a fraction of the cost they would pay if the power companies had to [...]

Essay #2- Cause/Effect: Factory Farms are Costly to the Environment

When it comes to buying groceries, it seems that many people are more concerned with saving a few dollars than saving the environment. People are excited to see the low prices of beef, pork, and chicken at the grocery store, but what they don’t realize is that the true costs are much greater than the [...]

Essay 2 Cause/Effect: POLLUTION by nate missimer

Environmental pollution causes Rachel Carson to want to write her book, Silent Spring because she wants her audience to know the impacts of our actions on the environment, possible future negative environmental impacts that could occur, and finally solutions and positive outcomes from her book. Our air, land, and water was being highly polluted with [...]

Essay Two: Proposal

Jason Depp English 213 Sullivan October 30, 2009 Redundancy Kills: Redundancy Kills Although paper is a renewable resource, I feel that I could introduce a way for any office to use less paper by implementing a few simple processes into daily office life and college courses.  While some may feel that this is an amusing [...]

Essay #2: Cause/Effect: The Permafrost Time Bomb

For decades the scare about a warming atmosphere has become increasingly realistic as scientists around the world link a change in climate to chemicals known as “greenhouse” gases. The most familiar of these is carbon dioxide which has shown sharp increases in the previous century due to human activity. The combustion byproducts of car engines, [...]

Essay # 2: Proposal/ The Ultimate Solution

The Ultimate Solution                   Biotechnology is defined as the use of living organisms or other biological systems in the manufacture of drugs, other products, or for environmental management. (Dictionary. Com)  All though there is plenty of controversy over genetically modified foods; I believe this new technology could serve as a solution to our world’s [...]

Essay #2- Proposal: Trash Dumping: Protect and Prevent

Jacqueline Sun Professor Maureen Sullivan English 213 TXA/TXB October 30, 2009 Proposal Essay Trash Dumping: Protect and Prevent Driving around the beautiful town of Ketchikan and up into the surrounding mountains one expects to see birds, flowers, trees, and wildlife of all types. Along with of those beautiful sights one can also expect to see [...]

Essay #2-Cause/Effect: Dinner Is the Dilemma

Dinner Is the Dilemma Do people ever wonder how the United States, along with other countries, misuse vast majorities of its land?  Why is it when motorists drive by factory farms, they are overcome with a nauseating smell that can make a person’s eyes water?  What could possibly contribute more greenhouse gases, which cause global [...]