Research Draft 2: The Pacific Garbage Patch

Littering has become a huge issue in the world now. Our world is becoming more polluted as the days past by around the globe. Trash is building up around the world-changing as the months change. All of these issues are because of us, humans not caring enough about the world. We are destroying the world [...]

Research Draft 2: Biodiesel’s Catch 22

When you go to the gas pump to fill your vehicle up, carbon dioxide toxins probably is not the first thing that pops into your head. More recently, the first concern of most people is the fast rising dollar sign on the pump. However, modern day environmental groups have been raising the issue of how [...]

Research Draft #2: Particulate Problems

Fairbanks, Alaska is in the midst of a pollution problem that is threatening the health of its citizens. This pollution does not come from one source, but is a culmination of several sources that, together, can cause a smog of unhealthy air in the Golden Heart City. Heating prices have risen to a point that [...]

Research Draft 2: Don’t Panic, be Organic

When going shopping for groceries, what is the deciding factor on which fruit or vegetables should be bought? Is it whichever is on sale, or possibly which is the healthiest? What about livestock and produce? Does it matter whether it is organic or not? For the majority of people who take care of their family’s [...]

Research Draft 2: This Drill Won’t Cause a Spill; Oil Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

                Does 7.14 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil seem like a lot (Baldwin, Gelb, Derner, 2006)? That’s because it is a lot, a significant amount, a plethora of oil (and a plethora of potential). That is the projected amount of barrels a day that could be drilled in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge [ANWR]. [...]

Research Draft #2- Just Because it’s Popular Doesn’t Mean it’s Good for You!

We, as a society, have a need for speed and convenience.   We want everything faster, more accessible, and bigger.  We are the “super-sized” rulers of the world, and we want it all, right now.  This type of lifestyle flows in to every part of our lives, including the way we eat.  Hundreds of millions of [...]

Research Second Draft: The World’s Water Crisis

The World’s Water Crisis               Steven Norris Engl 213: Writing for the Environment Professor Sulivan November 6, 2010   The adult human body is made up of approximately seventy percent water. In infants and children, water accounts for closer to eighty percent of body composition (Burgan, 2008, p.16). Water [...]

Research Draft #2- The light at the End of the Landfill

Sand, ash, and limestone are three simple substances that, when combined, form one of the most wondrous materials known to man: Glass. Glass bottles have been around almost three thousand years (Key, 2010). It didn’t take long for the glass container industry to become wide-spread, encompassing all the world. The glass recycling industry, however, is [...]

Research Draft #2 Farm Animals Overrun

Humans have become reliant on hormone enhanced meats for cheap and abundant food. Most agriculture production for animals has been using hormone altering medicines. The changes that are made through injections include faster muscle and growth development, resulting in more products in shorter time periods. Beef specific breeding of steers produce more meat than dairy [...]

Research Draft #2:Medicating our Planet

For centuries chemists have been inventing synthesized organic compounds to mimic and increase the potency of certain plants with natural healing properties. These potent petroleum-based substitutes are considered a modern marvel in medicine, aimed at specific ailments with many unintended direct effects (side effects). One unintended direct effect of this “chemical maintenance” is environmental contamination. Pharmaceuticals [...]