The document discusses sustainability and ways individuals can reduce their carbon footprint. It suggests using fluorescent light bulbs instead of incandescent, buying energy efficient appliances, walking or biking instead of driving, and recycling materials. According to Wikipedia, sustainability is meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The document encourages working with nature and teaching future generations to do the same, and states that while one person alone cannot save the environment, small actions together can make a difference.
The scope and characteristics of people friendly and eco-friendlyBedbyas Pokhrel
The scope and characteristics of people-friendly and Eco-friendly production systems. We make paid presentations too. For more detail mail us on bedbyaspokhrel@gmail.com
A collaborative project on reducing our ecological footprint, students in Mexico and New Zealand had the opportunity to connect, inspire, discover, and take action!
3
Environmental Impact:
The Big Picture
The planet’s population is now approaching 7 billion—an increase ofabout 5 billion people in just the past five decades—and the total pop-ulation is likely to increase by another 1 billion people in the next
decade. Analysts now expect that the ranks of the middle class (people who
may want your products!) will swell by as many as 1.8 billion in the next 12
years.1
You’ve probably seen similar projections, and even though you know
intellectually that an extra couple of billion people represents a sustainabil-
ity challenge, it can be hard to relate those huge numbers to your job. So, to
make the scale more real, let’s work through what it would mean to give the
next 1 billion middle-class citizens of the world a single 60-watt incandes-
cent light bulb.
Each bulb weighs about 0.7 ounce, including the packaging, so a billion of
them weigh around 20,000 metric tons, or about the same as 15,000 Toyota
Prius cars. As an engineer, you know that multiplying anything by 109 makes
a big number, but even from this simple case you start to get a feel for how
dramatic the scale is in real-world terms.
Next, let’s turn on those light bulbs. If they’re all on at the same time, they
would consume 60,000 megawatts of electricity—and that would require 120
new 500-megawatt power plants to keep them burning. Luckily, our imagi-
nary middle-class consumers will use their light bulbs only four hours per
day, so we’re down to 10,000 megawatts at any given moment. However, that
means we’ll still need 20 new 500-megawatt power plants. If coal-fired, each
of those plants burns 1.43 million tons of coal per year.2
That doesn’t sound like a good idea from an eco perspective, so let’s try
solar power for our light bulbs. If we use current commercially available solar
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technology, we’ll need roughly 50 square kilometers of solar panels, or more
than one-third the land area of either San Francisco or Boston. Hmmm. So,
let’s try wind power instead… We’ll still need one-tenth of all the wind power
produced in the world in 2007, just to keep those new light bulbs on for a few
hours a day.
This is the scale we’re dealing with when we’re talking about a billion con-
sumers of any product or service. Thousands or millions of tons of material.
Thousands or millions of megawatts. And it keeps going. Think about the raw
materials consumed to make those light bulbs, the energy consumed by com-
muting factory workers, the packaging materials, the ships and trucks used
for distribution, and ultimately, the waste that is involved when we have a
billion light bulbs. And if we’re having trouble delivering a single light bulb
to a billion people sustainably, what happens when these billion people want
stoves, refrigerators, TVs, computers, cell phones, radios, and cars? What hap-
pens when they want street lights, low-cost air travel, hotels, and restaurants?
You get the idea.
As engineers, we are already challenged by the environmen.
This report gives a detailed breakdown of our household carbon footprint for 2019. This covers both our direct and indirect footprints. This information has enabled us to take action which means we had 'net zero emissions' for the year.
2011 Ecobuild - Designing for behaviour changeswsmith
Presentation at Ecobuild for BioRegional on designing for pro-environmental behaviour change. Looking at what shapes people's behaviour, some case studies and the approach taken at BioRegional when designing for behaviour change.
Ecobuild 2011 - Designing for behaviour changeBioRegional
Ecobuild workshop on designing for pro-environmental behaviour change.
Explaining some theory, some case studies and how a rough guide to how we apply it to our work at BioRegional.
This presentation works best with a presenter or use of the notes, and is not designed to be just viewed on SlideShare!
Face aux enjeux économiques et environnementaux auxquels notre société est confrontée, on voit de plus en plus se développer chez les entreprises, petites ou grandes, une volonté de « penser circulaire ». Une démarche dont on constate déjà actuellement les nombreux bénéfices !
Cette rencontre-conférence aura pour objectif d'outiller les entreprises en vue de participer, dès aujourd'hui, à la transition vers une économie plus durable.
Stéphanie Fellen, fondatrice de Smart2Circle, un cabinet de conseil en stratégie durable et en économie circulaire, partagera son expertise sur le pourquoi et le comment activer l’économie circulaire dans son business, en pointant notamment plusieurs freins et leviers d'action.
Yonatan Amram, Key Account Manager chez Renewi, un des leaders dans le secteur de la collecte et du traitement des déchets (dont un des centres se situe à Seraing), exposera quant à lui les solutions les plus avantageuses pour les entreprises en matière de tri et de recyclage des déchets, quel que soit le domaine d’activité.
Plusieurs exemples, transposables aux entreprises, illustreront les exposés en donnant des pistes d’action concrètes.
Cette rencontre-conférence sera aussi peut-être l’occasion, notamment à l’échelle du territoire de Seraing, de connecter les forces vives… et de passer ensemble à l’action pour aller "un pas plus loin" ?
The scope and characteristics of people friendly and eco-friendlyBedbyas Pokhrel
The scope and characteristics of people-friendly and Eco-friendly production systems. We make paid presentations too. For more detail mail us on bedbyaspokhrel@gmail.com
A collaborative project on reducing our ecological footprint, students in Mexico and New Zealand had the opportunity to connect, inspire, discover, and take action!
3
Environmental Impact:
The Big Picture
The planet’s population is now approaching 7 billion—an increase ofabout 5 billion people in just the past five decades—and the total pop-ulation is likely to increase by another 1 billion people in the next
decade. Analysts now expect that the ranks of the middle class (people who
may want your products!) will swell by as many as 1.8 billion in the next 12
years.1
You’ve probably seen similar projections, and even though you know
intellectually that an extra couple of billion people represents a sustainabil-
ity challenge, it can be hard to relate those huge numbers to your job. So, to
make the scale more real, let’s work through what it would mean to give the
next 1 billion middle-class citizens of the world a single 60-watt incandes-
cent light bulb.
Each bulb weighs about 0.7 ounce, including the packaging, so a billion of
them weigh around 20,000 metric tons, or about the same as 15,000 Toyota
Prius cars. As an engineer, you know that multiplying anything by 109 makes
a big number, but even from this simple case you start to get a feel for how
dramatic the scale is in real-world terms.
Next, let’s turn on those light bulbs. If they’re all on at the same time, they
would consume 60,000 megawatts of electricity—and that would require 120
new 500-megawatt power plants to keep them burning. Luckily, our imagi-
nary middle-class consumers will use their light bulbs only four hours per
day, so we’re down to 10,000 megawatts at any given moment. However, that
means we’ll still need 20 new 500-megawatt power plants. If coal-fired, each
of those plants burns 1.43 million tons of coal per year.2
That doesn’t sound like a good idea from an eco perspective, so let’s try
solar power for our light bulbs. If we use current commercially available solar
31
technology, we’ll need roughly 50 square kilometers of solar panels, or more
than one-third the land area of either San Francisco or Boston. Hmmm. So,
let’s try wind power instead… We’ll still need one-tenth of all the wind power
produced in the world in 2007, just to keep those new light bulbs on for a few
hours a day.
This is the scale we’re dealing with when we’re talking about a billion con-
sumers of any product or service. Thousands or millions of tons of material.
Thousands or millions of megawatts. And it keeps going. Think about the raw
materials consumed to make those light bulbs, the energy consumed by com-
muting factory workers, the packaging materials, the ships and trucks used
for distribution, and ultimately, the waste that is involved when we have a
billion light bulbs. And if we’re having trouble delivering a single light bulb
to a billion people sustainably, what happens when these billion people want
stoves, refrigerators, TVs, computers, cell phones, radios, and cars? What hap-
pens when they want street lights, low-cost air travel, hotels, and restaurants?
You get the idea.
As engineers, we are already challenged by the environmen.
This report gives a detailed breakdown of our household carbon footprint for 2019. This covers both our direct and indirect footprints. This information has enabled us to take action which means we had 'net zero emissions' for the year.
2011 Ecobuild - Designing for behaviour changeswsmith
Presentation at Ecobuild for BioRegional on designing for pro-environmental behaviour change. Looking at what shapes people's behaviour, some case studies and the approach taken at BioRegional when designing for behaviour change.
Ecobuild 2011 - Designing for behaviour changeBioRegional
Ecobuild workshop on designing for pro-environmental behaviour change.
Explaining some theory, some case studies and how a rough guide to how we apply it to our work at BioRegional.
This presentation works best with a presenter or use of the notes, and is not designed to be just viewed on SlideShare!
Face aux enjeux économiques et environnementaux auxquels notre société est confrontée, on voit de plus en plus se développer chez les entreprises, petites ou grandes, une volonté de « penser circulaire ». Une démarche dont on constate déjà actuellement les nombreux bénéfices !
Cette rencontre-conférence aura pour objectif d'outiller les entreprises en vue de participer, dès aujourd'hui, à la transition vers une économie plus durable.
Stéphanie Fellen, fondatrice de Smart2Circle, un cabinet de conseil en stratégie durable et en économie circulaire, partagera son expertise sur le pourquoi et le comment activer l’économie circulaire dans son business, en pointant notamment plusieurs freins et leviers d'action.
Yonatan Amram, Key Account Manager chez Renewi, un des leaders dans le secteur de la collecte et du traitement des déchets (dont un des centres se situe à Seraing), exposera quant à lui les solutions les plus avantageuses pour les entreprises en matière de tri et de recyclage des déchets, quel que soit le domaine d’activité.
Plusieurs exemples, transposables aux entreprises, illustreront les exposés en donnant des pistes d’action concrètes.
Cette rencontre-conférence sera aussi peut-être l’occasion, notamment à l’échelle du territoire de Seraing, de connecter les forces vives… et de passer ensemble à l’action pour aller "un pas plus loin" ?
Presentation at King's College Global Landscapes Conference, by Close the Loo...Close the Loop Company
This presentation is for the King's College Global Landscapes Conference 2016, an Interdisciplinary Research Symposium. Conference Theme: The Art of Good Governance: Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency, held April 20-21, 2016. Rita Lacey is Founder and President of Close the Loop Company, Pennsylvania’s 1st Benefit Corporation. In 2015, she has was awarded the Rose Schoch Award for environmental education. She was also awarded the Dept. of Interior’s “Take Pride in America” award for outstanding business at the White House in 2011.
Presentation for Global Landscapes Conference at King's College. Breaking Boundaries and Creating Connections for Innovation, Sustainability and Growth
1. 1. Complete com simple past ou past continuos: (1 ponto)
A: What _______________(you, do) when the accident occurred?
B: I _______________ (try) to change a light bulb that had burnt out.
Sustentability - TEXTO REFERENTE AS QUESTÕES 02 a 05
everything we do ha an impact on nature. Inevitably, when we use products and services in
our daily lives, we contribute to carbon emissions that cause the greenhouse effect. The
choices that we make in our daily lives, - what we eat, whow we organize our homes, what
form of transportation we use - influence our carbom footprint*. Have you ever thought that
in each individual reduces his or her impact, the world might be different in the future? Here
are some tips of fighting carbon emissions:
use fluorescent light isntead incandescent,
buy energy efficient appliences
walk or ride a bicicle instead go by car,
recycle materials
according to wikipedia, sustainability is the hability to meet the needs of the present without
compromissing the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.
we have to coexist with nature and teach our children and grandchildren to do the same . are
you read to do your part? One person alone can't save the enviroment, but all these actions
toguether will certainly make a difference.
* Carbon footprint is a measure of the impact that our activities have in the enviroment.
2. Como as pessoas contribuem para a emissão de carbono? (1 ponto)
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
3. O autor da sugestoes para poupar energia quais são? (1 ponto)
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
4. De cordo com o autor como podemos evitar a poluicão? E o que podemos fazer para
diminuir o desperdicio? (1 ponto)
2. _____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
5. De cordo com a wikipedia o que é sustentabiliadade? (1 ponto)
_____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________
6 . Complete com o present continuos (1 ponto)
I________________ (play) the piano now.
You ___________________(play) the guitar now.
7. olhe a imagem a seguir e marque a resposta correta
a) he is having a shower
b) he is taking a bath
c) he is whatching a film
d) he is singing
e) he is going to work
8. Complete com o present continuos na forma negativa: (1 ponto)
The girl ___________________(WRITE) an exam.
Michael ______________________(GIVE) me a rose.
9. Complete: They live on the other side of the street. That's ____ house, the red one. (1
ponto)
a) they
b) their
c) its
d) theirs
e) our
10. Complete o quadro com os pronomes que faltam (1 ponto)