Essay #1: Cause and Effect- Food Production and the Environment

The average American consumes fast food 4-5 times per week.  This may not seem like much initially, but it can have very detrimental effects on the environment because of the way it is produced.  Not only does it pollute the air and water, but also leaves a staggering amount of non-biodegradable waste that has to [...]

Response #6: “Who Wants My Biofuel?”

The article “Who Wants My Biofuel?” by Rebecca Buckman illustrates the difficulties faced by biodiesel producers in the U.S., and implies that Congress is largely to blame. Although the government provided the incentives which encouraged the production of biodiesel, the producers are largely responsible for their own situation because they were counting on subsidies from [...]

Essay #1-Cause and effect: Pollution from food production

Over the years, we have come up with many different ways to produce our food.  Although many of the new techniques we use today have their benefits, most of them come with unwanted side effects as well.  These side effects can cause irreversible damage to the environment.  Although much of the food we produce today [...]

Essay # 1 – Cause & Effect: Polar Bears Melting Away from Under their Paws

Polar Bears are one the few animals that can survive in the one of world’s harshest environments.  This significant animal is a vital source to understanding what is occurring in the arctic.  The intensive research of polar bears offered awareness to earth’s major problems that we are concerned about today.  These problems are putting polar [...]

Book Review – Greed:Making Water Putrid

The very air that the reader is breathing is saturated with moisture that may eventually fall to earth as rain, leading to the reinvigoration of the earth.  The Blue Covenant, a book by Maude Barlow, reaches out to every human on this earth with the hope that humans will be able to let this process [...]

Cause/Effect: Meat Production is spoiling the world

Although global demand for meat continues to rise, animal agriculture is the greatest cause of world pollution because it increases greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, inefficiently utilizes land resources, and consumes more fresh water than other farming practices.  The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issues a regular report on the status of world climate [...]

Cause/Effect-Global Warming; Slowly But Surely Taking Over the World.

Global warming, although a slowly progressing process, still poses a threat to the environment in the form of temperature changes.  Even a single degree in temperature change can lead to worldly destruction.  It is extremely important that people across the globe learn the real toll global warming takes on our planet, and how the devastating effects [...]

Cause/effect essay: Landfill polution

Sanitary landfill is a method of disposing of refuse on land without creating nuisances or hazards to public health or safety, by utilizing the principles of engineering to confine the refuse to the smallest practical are, to reduce it to the smallest practical volume, and to cover it with layers of earth at the conclusion [...]

Cause/Effect essay

The Politics of Climate Change The year is 2011. A journalist for the Huffington Post, David Kroodsma, does a “weekly climate science round up” in which he compiles peer reviewed articles. For the week of February 14th alone, there exist nine papers chronicling the effects of climate change. Likewise, a search on google using the [...]

Essay #1: Wood Stoves are Environmentally Unfriendly

Although wood is becoming more popular as an alternative fuel source, it may cause more harm than good because burning wood releases carbon dioxide, it consumes a resource which helps to reduce carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, and breathing woodsmoke is adverse to our health. Ever since the 1970′s, wood stoves have been rising in [...]