Research Draft 2: Nuclear Power For The Win!

The way that energy is produced is of great impact to humanity, as it directly results in how industry, technology, and the economy are impacted.  How do all these relate to the production of energy? It is when energy is cheap and plentiful that it can be wasted, when it is plentiful and cheap that [...]

Part 3 – Research Draft # 1: Polar Bears: Melting Away from Under their Paws

Polar Bears (Ursus Maritimus) 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 [...]

Research Draft 2: Water Pollution: Humans Contributing to Their Own Downfall

Water pollution is an aspect of pollution that commonly goes under the radar; however, it is a huge aspect of pollution that has detrimental effects and must be handled effectively and quickly in order to obtain a clean environment. Water covers over 70% of the earth and is something we as the human species need [...]

Proposal Essay: Less wasted light equals more energy savings

(Hmm, the equations windows aren’t showing up) The UAF campus uses electricity.  Some of the electricity is used to power fluorescent light bulbs which are much more efficient than incandescent bulbs but because they exist as a load in the power grid, use energy.  How much energy is being used by these lights, is it [...]

Research: Draft #2

Ever since it became fashionable to care about the planet, we have been focusing on reducing emissions, when we should be focusing on eliminating them. Even a small amount of greenhouse gases released by a very large number of people becomes a large amount of greenhouse gases. If we are going to “save” the planet [...]

Sources

1) Erik McKittrick, Febuary 11th 2007, Pebble Mine, Alaska Trekking, http://www.aktrekking.com/pebble/ 2) Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 18th 2011, S-O-S, Pebble Mine Alaska, http://www.pebbleminealaska.com/ 3) Elizabeth Bluemink, Febuary 12th 2010, Pebble Mine Developers to Pay Fine Over Water-Use Violation, Anchorage Daily News, http://www.adn.com/2010/02/12/1136582/pebble-mine-developers-to-pay.html 4) Kim Murphy, September 3rd 2010, Battle over Pebble Mine Shifts to EPA, [...]

Research Part 4: 2nd Rough Draft: Battling Global Warming…Winner Takes the World.

Homes may be torn apart, lives may be lost, and the world may end. One question weighs heavily out in the open, will the sun really shine tomorrow? 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 [...]

Proposal Paragraph and Thesis

Pebble Mine is full of Copper, Gold, and Molybdenum, all very resourceful minerals for humans, in South East Alaska. Using large machinery has caused some uproar in the communities. I don’t think Pebble Mine should be drilled in because, Alaska is a pretty big state, and there are already other places to drill. I don’t [...]

Second Website Response

Local Burger Local Burger is a website that is for healthy eaters. It looks to be a very useful website especially considering the fact that they start off their introduction paragraph with “Local Burger is leading the fast food revolution with fresh, organic, local, and sustainable fare that is free of unnatural additives and preservative”. [...]

Second Response- Article 3

Toxic water Laws are neglected, at a cost in suffering Jennifer Hall-Massey and her family try to avoid any contact at all with the tap water in their house. She first learned about this through her son which had scab and burn marks on his arms and chest from having a bubble bath. Another way [...]