Final Draft: 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 [...]

Research Final Draft: Battling Global Warming…Winner Takes the World.

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 [...]

Research Final Draft: Alaska is the Energy Frontier

Research Draft:  Alaska is the Energy Frontier David Apperson The current use of unsustainable resources to supply a growing energy demand will lead to an energy collapse unless better methods are developed to power our world.  According to Energy and the Environment by Robert Ristinen, in 2005 86% of the energy used in the U.S. [...]

Research: Final Draft

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 [...]

Research Final Draft: 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 serious detrimental effects and must be handled effectively and quickly in order to obtain a clean and healthy environment. Water covers over 70% of the earth and is something we as human [...]

Research Final Draft: 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 5 Final Draft: Climate Change and Biodiversity: An Economic Approach to Prioritization

 The modern age is unique to those who will live to see it, and for the same reason is identical to every age that has come before it. That reason is the requirement for the people of any age to tackle the problems that come with it. For thousands of years those problems were of [...]

Research Final Draft: Improving Forest Managment

Improving Forest Management             The forest product industry, land managers, and environmental groups are extremely concerned with the future of forests worldwide. In order to continue to harvest trees for wood, convert it to demanded products, and market those products at reasonable prices, it must be done safely and in a way that the forest [...]

Short Essay Revision – Book Review – “Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating” by Mark Bittman

When we bite into a juicy steak, all we may think about is how good it looks and tastes.  But what we really should be thinking about is where it came from and consequences behind the production.  Each time we eat food, especially meat, it is one step closer to bigger problems with our environment, [...]

Shaun Bond Workshop Draft 2

Overall Shaun, you do a particularly good job of keeping flow through your paper.  I was confused on some of your numbers. You state that 3 gigatons of carbon are sequestered terrestrially annually and 2 gigatons oceanically, then in the next sentence you say the total annual carbon sequestered is 16.5 gigatons; maybe I just [...]