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Are the “Simple” brand shoes made in the USA?

I know they are eco–friendly and all, but I would be really grateful if they were made in America. I can’t find anything on their website, but they are really expensive for being mostly recycled materials, so I was just wondering if they were made here. =]
Never mind. I looked at the label under the tongue of the shoe and it said “made in China” like ashley said. This just shattered my entire universe. =[

SWEATSHOP-FREE SHOES!?

I’m planning on getting some new shoes tomorrow. I’m probably just going to Kohl’s (parents’ decision).

What common brands are child labor and sweatshop free and possibly eco–friendly?

vegan toddler shoes in nz?

anywhere to buy vegan toddler shoes in NZ – I’d prefer an NZ manufacturer, all I can find online is eco friendly leather or uk/usa companies. Also I know warehouse etc sell some vegan shoes but I’m looking for a somewhat more ethical approach….

btw yes I do know that toddlers should go barefoot 99% of the time but there are always those situations esp in sunny dry chch where that is not always possible
thanks – was basing on one going out pair (mary janes ish) and 2 play pairs for the public park and playgroup etc where shoes are compulsory as they can get wet or trashed in the mud. I hadn’t considered 2nd hand for shoes – I’ll check out trade me

Looking for a great pair of VEGAN winter boots?

I live in Winnipeg, where it gets super-cold. I’ve tried Simple shoes, Mooshoes, and Vegan chic, with mixed results. The TOEst and PesTOE get mixed reviews, so I’m still looking. Any vegan/eco–friendly recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

What is a catchy slogan for a Hover shoe?

i need a catchy slogan for a hover shoe. it is a high-top sneaker that can hover and move up to 10 mph. it can hover over mud, water, dog poo what ever u dont want to step in. easy way to get a student to class faster. it runs on solar energy as well. so its eco–friendly
any sort of slogan idea is great

What are some of China’s current environmental issues?

I need to find some to write about for a paper. I’d find them myself, but I’ve been doing homework literally all day and I just want to finish this paper and get some sleep. And, if you know any, it’d be nice if you could give me some future environmental issues, too.

What are environmental issues for the canadian sheild?

What are environmental issues of the canadian shield region of canada???? I need this for a geography I.S.U. Thanks in advance. 🙂

Environmental ISSUES?

Why does RESPONSIBILITY belong to corparate America and the leaders of a Capitalistic Society and their Disciples??

What are environmental issues in Ontario?

Im doing a history project and I was wondering what are some/most of the environmental issues the affect Canada and Ontario directly?

How should we analyze environmental issues?

I would be good to hear from environmentalist or anyone who has been in an environmental controversy . Would like to hear how you would approach the analysis or what analysis techniques would you use to in environmental controversies.

For example analyzing and assessing scientific information put forwards by certain stakeholders within the issue.

What do you think about Sarah Palin’s energy ‘expertise’?

A lot of conservatives are trying to portray Sarah Palin as some sort of energy expert. Here are some Palin quotes.

She thinks it’s God’s will that a natural gas pipeline be built through Alaska.

“I think God’s will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that,”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html

She seems to share McCain’s disdain for renewable energy.

“alternative–energy solutions are far from imminent and would require more than 10 years to develop.”

http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/aug/16/alaska_gov_wants_tap_oil_resources51051/

She thinks oil can solve our energy problems.

“I beg to disagree with any candidate who would say we can’t drill our way out of our problem”

http://www.omgili.com/newsgroups/talk/environment/C49F02AA10FDCleonard78spprimusca.html

Do you think the portrayal of Sarah Palin as an energy expert is justified?

http://climateprogress.org/2008/09/03/note-to-media-pork-queen-palin-is-earmark-expert-not-energy-expert/
regarding renewables being unproven, how about PG&E signing contracts for up to 900 MW of solar thermal:
http://www.pge.com/about/news/mediarelations/newsreleases/q2_2008/080401.shtml

800 MW of solar photovoltaic:
http://www.pge.com/about/news/mediarelations/newsreleases/q3_2008/080814.shtml

Not to mention all the wind energy already in use, particularly in Texas, just as a few examples to the contrary.

Plus Pickens believes that we can get 20% of our energy from wind power alone in 10 years, and the Bush Department of Energy believes 20% in 20 years (and that’s just wind!)

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/pdfs/41869.pdf
http://climateprogress.org/2008/05/12/must-read-bush-doe-says-wind-can-be-20-of-us-power-by-2030-with-no-breakthroughs/
gcnp – no, but I just read a plot summary. Interesting parallels indeed.

has President Bush gone completely energy nuts?

here President Bush goes again — pandering to the alternative energy crowd. [see story at link] has he gone completely off the deep end?

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/05/news/bush_ethanol/index.htm

or only partly off it?

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my hypothesis:

America needs to drill in ANWR, drill offshore, mine that clean cloal in Utah [world’s largest deposits are just sitting there], AND build at least 15 nuclear reactors per decade.

Meanwhile President Bush makes nice noises at the alternative energy conference and acknowledges that ethanol is driving up food prices — BUT he doesn’t say beans about reversing the present policy that is hitting us all at the grocery store. NOR has he any quantifiable program.

Is he as bad as the Socialist Duo? [Sen. Pied Piper and Sen. Shrew].
comment for D Rocker: hydrogen makes a fine fuel for cars IF you can produce it at home. That’s fairly easily done by electrolysis of ordinary water. This allows you to move the energy production location to the power plant, which can burn uranium or coal or oil/gas.

While this visionary technology doesn’t yet exist, the fuel cells and electrolysis units to make it possible aren’t that far away — certainly less than 10 years if oil prices continue to soar.

but it can’t be done if America isn’t willing to produce significantly larger quantities of energy here at home … and that’ll take all available types of power plants, not just the greeen dreams of the eco-friendly.

environmental issues in the news?

I need to find a current article/news in one of these categories
~alternative energies
(wind solar hydroelectric, etc.)
~living green
(examples of communities, people, etc. that are lessening impacts on the environment)
~human impacts
population impacts, pollutions, comsumption, etc.
~conservation efforts

Why are the Chinese so aggressively pursuing Alternative ENERGY such as wind and solar power?

Moving away from dependence on oil is a major priority for the Chinese.

Are they doing this because they are a bunch of Tree Hugging Hippies or do they understand what the United States does not, that we have a dwindling supply oil oil?

Don’t the Chinese believe Fox News when they assure us that we have hundreds of years worth of oil left?

What do you think an Energy Catalyzer (Ecat) would mean to the climate issue?

I was just reading some interesting stuff on alternative energy sources. I came across a concept call Ecat which appears to be a spin off of cold fusion which is more accurately called “low level nuclear reaction”. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/06/e-cat-cold-fusion?page=all

It’s hard to tell just how credible any of this is. But it does put the possibility of a CO2 emission free source of energy on the market which would likely start as heating devices and possibly fuel-free cars before be adapted to mass energy sources.

What are your thoughts on this? (Other than I’ll wait and see. Please feel free to assume this is true and speculate on what it might mean).

what percentage of the worlds energy supply comes from renewable resources? 1-19-52 or 85?

biology

Renewable Energy and Global Warming? Are Solar and wind helping?

Where I am coming from:: GW / Climate change is undeniable and Man Made.

I’m looking for thoughts from people who are knowledgeable in areas like Physics, Meteorology and Earth Sciences or generally know how the Earth and Nature work.

Solar and Wind energy seem to be the only two renewable sources that take energy directly out of the air. What makes me wonder is that I think they may be benefiting the environment more than we realize.

In addition to being clean energy sources they may be removing a lot more energy out of the environment then we realize, as they have been put in by the world on a massive scale. I tend to think wind turbines and solar panels probably dissipate nearly 100% of the energy that hits them. If the CO2 and pollution that we pump in the air is somewhat the same amount of energy as what we take out, we might have already found a way to compensate?

What do you think?

By the way renewable energy output has gotten to be almost even with nuclear energy output at 9%, much to the chagrin of the energy monopolies.
Ok Qaiser lets try to make this simpler, and Greg but the thing is if we can still convert it to energy then the energy existed. Energy is energy and if we’re saying there’s extra energy in the atmosphere I think getting rid of it or using it is a little less energy in the environment, nomatter if its at ground level or not.

We say our problem is that the CO2 mixed with the pollution we pump into the atmosphere heats up the atmosphere.

Ok that energy is already in the atmosphere. Now since solar and wind take whatever forms of energy they are and convert them into energy we use.

Now energy is energy. The physics law of conservation of energy has to apply here. In other words you dissipate some at the ground level and you’ve dissipated the total energy in the atmosphere, at the time, by that amount.

You can actually see it with wind turbines in water where fog develops because you actually cooled the surrounding air. You’ve also created a down draft that could be bringing some CO2 d
I meant to say the downdrafts created by turbines might bring CO2 down to ground level where it can be absorbed by plants trees or oceans.

P.S. You jokesters are real funny.

There’re solutions for bird and bat problems. Change the color of turbines, for instance.

No renewable energies can be developed by any company and any country thats what you’re all afraid of losing your monopolies, but forget it there future is written. Good luck getting nuclear plants running again, they take to much collaboration, effort and money to bring. Plus we haven’t built any of them in 30 years. Where do ya think we’ll get the nuclear experts?

Mtrstude, thanks but one thing you’re saying it ultimately gets released back but thats true for everything, ultimately it will go back but what if the next time it does its CO2 free which is our ultimate goal. Maybe we can continue with our reduction in energy usage so it won’t go back so quickly.

Pindar, well they must be helping somewhere cause we’re putting them up everywhere and we’ve stabilized our CO2 output in the last 3 years and Global CO2 output was down 1.3% in 2008 could be that it was due to the global recession. But still there’s more amunition to fight the folks that say GW is not due to humans.

But I can’t believe CO2 is all at ground level. Even if it is heavy the wind can still fling it around like it was nothing. That goes agains everything including NASA which has the atmospheric CO2 at 331 PPM. http://climate.nasa.gov/
You know whats really strange is that the people that are right are getting the thumbs downs and the people that haven’t a clue are getting the thumbs ups? Whats up with that? Well then to all the people getting the thumbs down, I commend you! You struck a cord with the denialists, great job!
Pindar I’m not talking about the UK if thats what you’re talking about. Where did you get that figure?
Here’s the EIA’s figure. Winds contribution in the U.S. may be small but its not 0, more like around 0.8% in the U.S.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/alternate/page/renew_energy_consump/rea_prereport.html
The only brainwashing being done is by the money flows. Pindar I don’t join anybody for the purposes of joining them. If I happen to be on the same stance as them its because they and I both see the obvious.

Show me the evidence, but thats the problem isn’t it! The GW / Climate change denialists have no evidence to show and no way to disprove the facts and true observations.
Lalu are you talking about the 9% figure Lalu? Why don’t you check the graph on the EIA link I posted. That has renewables at 8% vs 9% for nuclear and that was for 2009.
“Worldwide wind energy production at the end of 2009 was 340 TWh, which is about 2% of worldwide electricity usage.”
http://energy-statistics.blogspot.com/2010/09/global-wind-energy-statistics.html

Is Denmark disproving the myth that a carbon cap and renewable energy investment is bad for the economy?

According to Forbes magazine, the “best country for business in the world” — for two years running — is uber-green Denmark
http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/18/best-countries-for-business-bizcountries09-business-washington-best-countries.html

Denmark has one of the strongest cap-and-trade commitments in the world — 20% below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. And it has a requirement that 20 percent of its overall energy mix be renewable by the end of 2011. And its efficiency measures are such that Energy Minister Connie Hedegaard said last year, “In 2025, (Denmark’s) total energy consumption will not have risen in 50 years.”
http://climateprogress.org/2009/04/16/forbes-global-warming-denmark/

And apparently it’s the best country for business in the world. Does this shatter the myth that a carbon cap and renewable energy investment is bad for the economy?

How about a crash govt program to develop fusion energy ala the Manhattan project? Elim dep on fossil fuels?

Fusion energy is an almost endlessly renewable energy source that is non polluting and produces no radioactive byproducts like nuclear. The oceans of the world have a virtually endles supply of fuel (duterium). Progress has been slow but with unlimited govt backing maybe a breakthrough could be made.

Renewable energy, All UK Pub toilets, distilled pee, to recover all Uk alchohol for recycling or petrol?

And all world alchohol too. Alchohol is not absorbed by the body, all of it comes out in the pee, thats why you get dehydration and hangovers, apparently. So why not connect all the towns pub pee toilets up and distill it to recoup the alchohol, put it back into the drinks, to save all that energy brewing/distilling it in the first place! or just process it to run as alchohol petrol replacement in vehicle engines. Or football grounds and hotels, and events provide their own heating. etc. If anyone patents this idea, we’ll go 1/3rds, ie you, yahoo, and me.

How is WTO (World trade organization) related to sustainable development and why is it important?

Has anyone seen the new sustainable development city outlined in the newest issue of Scientific American?

They have one in San Fran, one in Shanghai and one in Abu Dhabi. What did you think of all of them?

What are the dimensions of sustainable development?

What are the recent books on the issue of sustainable development?

strategic planning, experience from cities around the globe.

For an underdeveloped country, what should the biggest priority be in providing sustainable development?

Interested in opinions. Perhaps infrastructure? This is assuming the country would be granted a couple billions of dollars.

What do you think the best eco-friendly car is?

Doesn’t have to be just based on mpg or co2 emissions, but also price, practicality and performance as well.

Please state why as well, thanks

What are ‘plug-in hybrids’? Are these cars always eco-friendly?

Another barrier, Mr. Smith said, lies in the batteries for so-called plug-in hybrids, which require more powerful batteries that charge more quickly than the current generation of hybrid batteries.

What are the best ‘small cars’ which are eco friendly and don’t consume too much petrol?

im getting a new car.

What’s the most eco-friendly car in the UK?

My rustbucket’s just been scrapped and I while i love my bike and my feet and my rollerblades, i would like to replace the deceased automobile for trips to the diy store and surfing beaches.

i have under 3k to spend and want to get the most eco–friendly second hand car available (from 2001 onwards).

I’ve seen loads of websites rating 2005/2006 models but I can’t afford them and would rather have a second-hander. Where can i find information about eco–friendly models from the past five years?

i don’t mind which fuel (diesel, petrol or vegetable oil).

Thanks!

Are cars eco-friendly…?

Today around 500 million cars travel the streets of the world… Cars need fuel, rubber, metal, plastic and synthetic fibres…
What is environmentally wrong today?…

Does Yahoo know about Synthetic trees? Global Warming?

Apparently, some scientist guy has come with a way to fight global warming. For Real. A scientist has invented an artificial tree designed to do the job of plants.

But the synthetic tree proposed by Dr Klaus Lackner proposes does not much resemble the leafy variety.

“It looks like a goal post with Venetian blinds,” said the Columbia University physicist, referring to his sketch at the annual AAAS meeting in Denver, Colorado.

But the synthetic tree would do the job of a real tree, he said. It would draw carbon dioxide out of the air, as plants do during photosynthesis, but retain the carbon and not release oxygen.

If done to scale, according to Dr Lackner, synthetic trees could help clean up an atmosphere grown heavy with carbon dioxide, the most abundant gas produced by humans and implicated in climate warming.

He predicts that one synthetic tree could remove 90,000 tonnes of CO2 in a year – the emissions equivalent of 15,000 cars.

“You can be a thousand times better than a living tree,” he said.

Carbon sinks

For now, the synthetic tree is still a paper idea. But Dr Lackner is serious about developing a working model. His efforts suggest the wide net of ideas cast by scientists as they face the challenge of mitigating climate change.

Dr Lackner believes that carbon sequestration technology must be part of the long-term solution. Global reliance on fossil fuels will not decrease any time soon, he said, and developing countries cannot be expected to wait until alternatives are available.

The technology calls for two things – seizing carbon and then storing it. Direct capture of CO2, from power plants for example, is the simplest, according to Dr Lackner. But this doesn’t work for all polluters. A car can’t capture and store its carbon dioxide on-board; the storage tank would be too large.

“It’s simply a question of weight,” he said, “for every 14 grams of gasoline you use, you are going to have 44 grams of CO2.”

The alternative is to capture emissions from the wind. In this case, a synthetic tree would act like a filter. An absorbent coating, such as limewater, on its slats or “leaves” would seize carbon dioxide and retain the carbon.

Dr Lackner predicts that the biggest expense would be in recycling the absorber material.

“We have to keep the absorbent surfaces refreshed because they will very rapidly fill up with carbon dioxide,” he said. If an alkaline solution such as limewater were used, the resulting coat of limestone would need to be removed.

Dr Lackner is considering other less-alkaline solutions to prevent carbonate precipitation.

“There are a number of engineering issues which need to be worked out,” he said.

Home use

A synthetic tree could be planted anywhere. A small one could sit like a TV on the lawn to balance out the CO2 emitted by one person or family.

But more practically, said Dr Lackner, a device the size of a barn would sit in the open air, near repositories for easy transportation and storage of carbon.

He estimated that 250,000 synthetic trees worldwide would be needed to soak up the 22 billion tons of CO2 produced annually.

But not everyone is rooted to the idea. Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer Howard Herzog thinks Dr Lackner’s design won’t hold together on the scale he proposes.

He said you would expend more energy in capturing the CO2 – in keeping the slats coated in absorbent and disposing of it – than you’d save.

“Once the solvent captures the CO2, it holds it on tight,” said Dr Herzog, “and it’s going to take a lot of energy to break those bonds.”

He said that much more research is needed on the technology.

“The idea of air capture is seductive and would really be great to have,” said Dr Herzog, “but it’s important to separate out the concept from the technical details.”

‘Early days’

Meanwhile, Dr Lackner is pursuing his idea for carbon storage. While he was at the US Department of Energy‘s Los Alamos National Laboratory, his team worked on a storage method based on a natural chemical process known as rock weathering.

When CO2 binds with magnesium, it creates carbonate rocks which, according to Dr Lackner, retain carbon permanently and safely.

Currently, he said, the process is still too expensive to develop on a large scale.

But Dr Lackner is optimistic that the costs for carbon capture and storage will come down.

“This is still the early days of climate solutions,” he said.

When will we have the resolve to build more Nuclear Power Plants; which emit NO CO2 into the Environment?

“The nuclear option should be retained precisely because it is an important carbon-free source of power.”

“Taking nuclear power off the table as a viable alternative will prevent the global community from achieving long-term gains in the control of carbon dioxide emissions.”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University

As of 204, France produced 78% of its energy needs from Nuclear Power, while at the same time the United States produces only 20%, while generating 57% of its Electricity from Coal that accounts for 90% of CO2 emissions.

http://nuclearinfo.net/Nuclearpower
http://www.policyalmanac.org/environment/archive/nuclear_energy.shtml
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epm_sum.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
WOW … amazing! Realst1 calls me a Right Wing (extremist) while the next person, BossH, calls me a Socialist!
BossH: Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) is a Generation IV Reactor for both electricity and hydrogen production.

Toshiba has applied for a license to build a 4S Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (Generation IV) in the United States.

http://nuclear.inl.gov/gen4/lfr.shtml

it is true that fish oil can help against manic depression?

http://www.oism.info/it/farmaci/alternative_naturali/olio_di_pesce_contro_depressione_maniacale.htm

The fish oil can help against manic depression.
Effectiveness of Omega 3 oils in dealing with manic depression, schizophrenia, depression, hyperactivity, the LDCs, etc..

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy: In September 1998 the National Institute of Health conducted a seminar on the effectiveness of Omega 3 oils in dealing with manic depression, schizophrenia, depression, hyperactivity, the LDCs, etc.. Now a new study supports those reports. Although the study was addressed only to oil fish, linseed oil is not recommended because it exposes a potential toxicity-toxicity due to polluted waters where the pesci.________________________________________
Scientists believe they have found a surprising new ally in their efforts to understand and treat acute sudden changes of mood of manic-depression fatty acids of fish. A clinical experiment at Harvard University on 44 patients suffering from manic depression, or bipolar, have had positive results with fish oil the experiment was stopped after 4 months and all patients were put into care with 14 capsules daily.
The fish oil is rich in fatty acids omegs-3, a family of polyunsaturated fatty long chain that have been associated with reduced cardiovascular disease and other health benefits. The highest concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids are in the eye and brain, where neurobiologi believe are essential for the proper functioning of cell membranes. If the levels of omega-3 fatty acids are too low, have assumed, then the streets are essential chemical sopraffatte may arise and mental disorders.
The study conducted at Harvard was the first significant scientific gaze on the effects of fish and its fatty acids on manic-depression that is estimated to affect between 1 and 2 percent of Americans at some point in life. The disorder produces surges from the levels of energy and mood abnormemente senior maniacalità of acute depression, and is generally treated with drugs other than those prescribed for unipolar depression, the most common form of depression. (It has been estimated that 20 percent of Americans suffer from some form of depression throughout life).
But some researchers believe that omega-3 fatty acids play an equally important role in unipolar depression. Joseph Hibbeln of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, has discovered an amazing correlation between the consumption of fish and depression. The society in which people eat much fish, he discovered, have markedly lower levels of depression compared with the society in which people did not eat much fish. Does his work “suggestive” rather than conclusive.
Stoll said that it unbeaten in fish as a possible cure for manic depression when he reviewed the literature on compounds from the effects similar to traditional drugs such as lithium and Valproato. “Wherever the guardammo were the omega-3,” he said. “We had heard of the omega-3 to medical school, but there was given much attention since then.” While fish oil has long been used as a dietary supplement safe, doctors warn that may oxidize if not is stored properly.

HELP ME TO HELP YOU…….WANT TO DO Something FOR MANKIND….?

hey guys i have some great ideas …..some innovative ideas too….i have some rare ideas in mind which would help my country as well as our beloved earth….like alternative source for producing electricity…a car that runs on a very less amount of energy(without fossil fuel)…..new system for railways that would reduce accidents as well as explosions….and some innovations for fun like a bike with pulleys which can do stunts safely….and more ideas….i have read abt many ideas which are printed in newspapers…..but i dont think they are of that worth…..i think my ideas are more useful and scientific…..
but the problem is that i am not able to explore my talents to the general people or the world…plz guide me or suggest me some platform through which i can show my potential.. like if there is any institute or some media…give me contact info…who knows may be my ideas will change the world……plz help me to help you…

Help Me TO HELP YOU….WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR MANKIND….?

hey guys i have some great ideas …..some innovative ideas too….i have some rare ideas in mind which would help my country as well as our beloved earth….like alternative source for producing electricity…a car that runs on a very less amount of energy(without fossil fuel)…..new system for railways that would reduce accidents as well as explosions….and some innovations for fun like a bike with pulleys which can do stunts safely….and more ideas….i have read abt many ideas which are printed in newspapers…..but i dont think they are of that worth…..i think my ideas are more useful and scientific…..
but the problem is that i am not able to explore my talents to the general people or the world…plz guide me or suggest me some platform through which i can show my potential.. like if there is any institute or some media…give me contact info…OR some website or email id…who knows may be my ideas will change the world……plz help me to help you…

What is the best online source for renewable energy news?

I am looking for an educational online website for reliable renewable energy news and industry information.. I’d appreciate it, thanks!

What is a non-renewable energy resource used today that is not a fossil fuel?

Science Class Question: I had to choose four non-renewable energy resources used today, and pick one that wasnt a fossil fuel. I choose oil/petroleum, natural gad, coal and uranium

McCain claims to support Renewable energy. When are we going to hear the details?

So far he has always been opposed to renewable energy support of any kind.

Explain your views on the use of renewable energy when compared to using coal oil or gas?

Hi,
Explain your views on the use of renewable energy when compared to using coal oil or gas.
thank you!

How would be possible to mitigate the climate change effects through using renewable energy resources?

How would be possible to mitigate the climate change effects through using renewable energy resources focusing on bio electricity, geothermal energy and hydropower?

What are 3 rules to live by that will make human activities on the planet sustainable?

what are some rules for individuals and the world which will help the planet be more sustainable?

What is the best, sustainable and recyclable material that i can make a bike saddle out of?

For my engineering diploma i need to find a suitable material to make a bike saddle out of. The material MUST be sustainable and recyclable. Please Help!
For my engineering diploma case study I need to find a suitable material to make a bike saddle out of. The material MUST be sustainable and recyclable. Can you please be specific with the materials. (eg. the bike frame will be made of aluminium 7005 alloy) Please Help!

What can you do with a degree in green and sustainable enterprise?

My major is Business Management, but I think Business Management is too broad. Can someone please explain to me what are my career options if I change my degree to GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE? Thank You Kindly

What’s the biggest issue of sustainable tourism in united states?

What aspect can be improved in sustainable tourism development in u.s?What’s the obstacle for the sustainable tourism and ecotourism development in u.s?

What kind of science and technology do you think is needed for realizing a more prosperous & sustainable world?

by prosperous i mean happiness ( including wealth but not only limited to wealth)

by sustainable i am talking in enviornment terms and development which can be sustained for future generations also.

please do this assignment please 10 points?

Write a detailed travel plan of your visit to the country researched in Part 1.

this is part 1,

Latin America includes the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking nations of the Americas and the Caribbean. Visit your course library and locate a map of North America and South America. On the continent of North America, Mexico and its neighbors to the south are part of the region known as Latin America, as well as all countries on the continent of South America. Select one country in Latin America that is of interest to you. Click on the Briefing Data link below and print out the list of categories and explanations. Using various resources available in your course library or elsewhere, gather facts about the country for each of the categories listed. View the following presentation called MLA Style Documentation to learn how to properly cite your sources. Text only version. You may also want to try this Latin America resource link. Create a separate table or report to present the data for the country.

and this is the briefing data,

Select one country in the assigned world region for this briefing. Look at the list of categories below. Select 20 categories–10 from List A and 10 from List B. Using various resources available in your course library or elsewhere, gather facts about the country for each of the 20 categories you select. You will find the CIA World Factbook particularly useful.

Detailed information about what data to look for is provided in the category explanations that follow. Organize the information you find and create a table for the country to present the data. Or, you may prefer to present the data in the form of a report. The data you provide in the table will help you complete Part 2 of this assignment.

Category List A Category List B
1. Official Name of Country 14. Population
2. Popular Name of Country 15 Language
3. Capital City 16. Religion
4. Administrative Divisions 17. Life Expectancy
5. Other Major Cities 18. Literacy
6. Area 19. Gross National Product
7. Boundaries 20. Per Capita GNP
8. Landforms 21. Industry
9. Bodies of Water 22. Agriculture
10. Climate 23. Exports
11. Natural Resources 24. Imports
12. Land Use 25. Balance of Trade
13. Environmental Issues/Natural Hazards 26. Currency/Exchange Rate

Category Explanations
List A
Official Name of Country List the official name of each country in this briefing. The official name is often called the “conventional long form.”

Popular Name of Country A shorter version of a country’s conventional long form name is often its more popular name. Include the popular name for each country in this briefing.

Capital City Provide the name of the city that is the official seat of government for each country in this briefing. Usage Note: The term used for the city that serves as a seat of government is spelled capital. The term used for the building in which a legislative assembly meets is spelled capitol.

Administrative Divisions Countries are often divided into smaller units called states, provinces, or territories. There may be many such units, as in the 50 states of the United States of America, or there may only be a few such divisions. Provide the number of administrative divisions for each country in this briefing.

Other Major Cities Major cities are large population centers where important economic and social activities take place. Provide the names of three such cities for each country in this briefing.

Area Many of the statistics used in the study of geography have to do with the different areas of the earth’s surface. The area of a country is the extent of the surface enclosed by its boundaries. There are several ways to measure area.

In the U.S. system, area is measured in square miles. A square mile is equal to a square in which each side is one mile long. A smaller area of land may be measured in acres. An acre is 43,560 square feet, or equal to a square in which each side is 208.7 feet long. There are 640 acres in one square mile.

The metric system is another way of measuring area. An area that is one square kilometer is smaller than a square mile because a kilometer is shorter than a mile. A smaller area of land may be measured in hectares. A hectare is equal to a square of land in which each side is 100 meters long. The following is a chart to help you convert measurements of area in the two systems:

To Convert: Multiply By:
Sq. miles to sq. kilometers 2.59
Sq. kilometers to sq. miles 0.3861
Hectares to acres 2.47
Acres to hectares 0.405

The sizes of countries vary considerably. Some countries are huge, such as Russia with a total of 6,592,735 square miles. Other countries are very small. Monaco, for example, is less than one square mile in area.

It is also important to consider that a country’s area will probably include both land and water areas. Provide the figures that represent the land, wat

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Write a detailed travel plan of your visit to the country researched in Part 1.

this is part 1,

Latin America includes the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking nations of the Americas and the Caribbean. Visit your course library and locate a map of North America and South America. On the continent of North America, Mexico and its neighbors to the south are part of the region known as Latin America, as well as all countries on the continent of South America. Select one country in Latin America that is of interest to you. Click on the Briefing Data link below and print out the list of categories and explanations. Using various resources available in your course library or elsewhere, gather facts about the country for each of the categories listed. View the following presentation called MLA Style Documentation to learn how to properly cite your sources. Text only version. You may also want to try this Latin America resource link. Create a separate table or report to present the data for the country.

and this is the briefing data,

Select one country in the assigned world region for this briefing. Look at the list of categories below. Select 20 categories–10 from List A and 10 from List B. Using various resources available in your course library or elsewhere, gather facts about the country for each of the 20 categories you select. You will find the CIA World Factbook particularly useful.

Detailed information about what data to look for is provided in the category explanations that follow. Organize the information you find and create a table for the country to present the data. Or, you may prefer to present the data in the form of a report. The data you provide in the table will help you complete Part 2 of this assignment.

Category List A Category List B
1. Official Name of Country 14. Population
2. Popular Name of Country 15 Language
3. Capital City 16. Religion
4. Administrative Divisions 17. Life Expectancy
5. Other Major Cities 18. Literacy
6. Area 19. Gross National Product
7. Boundaries 20. Per Capita GNP
8. Landforms 21. Industry
9. Bodies of Water 22. Agriculture
10. Climate 23. Exports
11. Natural Resources 24. Imports
12. Land Use 25. Balance of Trade
13. Environmental Issues/Natural Hazards 26. Currency/Exchange Rate

Category Explanations
List A
Official Name of Country List the official name of each country in this briefing. The official name is often called the “conventional long form.”

Popular Name of Country A shorter version of a country’s conventional long form name is often its more popular name. Include the popular name for each country in this briefing.

Capital City Provide the name of the city that is the official seat of government for each country in this briefing. Usage Note: The term used for the city that serves as a seat of government is spelled capital. The term used for the building in which a legislative assembly meets is spelled capitol.

Administrative Divisions Countries are often divided into smaller units called states, provinces, or territories. There may be many such units, as in the 50 states of the United States of America, or there may only be a few such divisions. Provide the number of administrative divisions for each country in this briefing.

Other Major Cities Major cities are large population centers where important economic and social activities take place. Provide the names of three such cities for each country in this briefing.

Area Many of the statistics used in the study of geography have to do with the different areas of the earth’s surface. The area of a country is the extent of the surface enclosed by its boundaries. There are several ways to measure area.

In the U.S. system, area is measured in square miles. A square mile is equal to a square in which each side is one mile long. A smaller area of land may be measured in acres. An acre is 43,560 square feet, or equal to a square in which each side is 208.7 feet long. There are 640 acres in one square mile.

The metric system is another way of measuring area. An area that is one square kilometer is smaller than a square mile because a kilometer is shorter than a mile. A smaller area of land may be measured in hectares. A hectare is equal to a square of land in which each side is 100 meters long. The following is a chart to help you convert measurements of area in the two systems:

To Convert: Multiply By:
Sq. miles to sq. kilometers 2.59
Sq. kilometers to sq. miles 0.3861
Hectares to acres 2.47
Acres to hectares 0.405

The sizes of countries vary considerably. Some countries are huge, such as Russia with a total of 6,592,735 square miles. Other countries are very small. Monaco, for example, is less than one square mile in area.

It is also important to consider that a country’s area will probably include both land and water areas. Provide the figures that represent

Does James Cameron know …?

that the extortionists who rammed the North American Free Trade Agreement down our collective throats blackmailed canada into agreeing that the united states of america holds proprietary rights over canada’s natural petroleum resources, and that the agreement further states that neither the government nor the people of canada have the right to any of those resources until the energy demands of the united states of america are met?

That was a question.

As an apparent individual concerned with native and environmental issues, is Jim aware that if you’re going to publicly fish slap people or entities in the face and accuse them of wrong-doing with the Athabaska Tarsands, it also appears either ignorant or deliberately disingenuous not to fish slap who is truly responsible instead of a politically convenient and unresponsible scapegoat?

Is he also aware that such actions tend to make it appear to critical thinking people that Jim might be somebody’s spokesman talking out of both sides of his chops at once?

These are all questions to consider, don’t you think?

Isn’t that another question?

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English homework correction please?

Please kindly correct my answers? I’ll quote some parts of main text that are required to answer.
“Did pollution finish off the Roman Empire? The Romans stored wine in lead vats and some scholars think lead poisoning weakened their minds and lay behind the fall of their civilization.”
When did pollution begin to be a problem?
A:”It began to be a problem since the Roman Empire.”

“In 1306 Edward I banned the burning of sea-coal because it made ‘so powerful and unbearable stench’.”
What made Edward I ban the burning of sea-coal?
A:”It was the powerful and unbearable stench that made Edward I ban the burning of sea-coal.”

“At the bottom flows, or rather stagnates, the Irk, a narrow, coal-black, foul smelling stream. ‘Across the Pennines in Leeds, you could only see the sun on Sundays.
Why would the sun be seen in Leeds only on Sunday?
A:Because people usually stop working in factories and industries on Sunday.

“American cities like Pittsburgh, so dark that drivers sometimes had to use their headlights at midday, began to impose smoke controls in the 1930s and ’40s.
How did American cities try to solve the particular problem of pollution in the ’30s and ’40s?
A:American cities imposed smoke controls in the 1930s and 1940s to solve the particular problem.

“London followed suit after the Great Smog of 1952…. Londoners now enjoy 70% more sunshine in December than they did in 1958.
To what extent did Londoners succeed in solving the smoke problems?
A:Londoners did succeed goodly in solving the smoke problems, because they now enjoy 70% sunshine in December than they did in 1958.

“In the ’70s America and Japan moved to control vehicle fumes by fitting special converters to car exhausts.”
To what extent did Londoners succeed in solving the smoke problems?
A:Special measures were taken in America and Japan by fitting special converters to car exhausts to control vehicle fumes.

“By the end of the ’60s the environment was in fashion – The New York Times carried over 1,600 articles on environmental issues in 1970, eight times as many as it had in 1960.”

A:In what way did “The New York Times” show a growing interest in the environment?
A:The New York Times showed a growing interest in the environment by publishing more than 1,600 articles in 1970, eight times as many as it had in 1960.

“In 1972, 113 countries met at a UN conference in Stockholm tp discuss these problems – a landmark itself. But in the 1980s most of them still remain unsolved.
Do you think that pollution problems were solved by the conference in Stockholm? Justify.
A:No. Most of pollution problems remain unsolved in Stockholm, even in the 1980s.

Democrat or Republican? – First time voter in 2012?

I will be 18 then, I was wondering what political party is best for me?

Abortion – I think it should be legal, but controlled more.
Euthanasia – I think it should be legal, but controlled, people should get counseling before they do it.
Immigration – I think legal immigration should be capped at a certain number and I think all illegals should be deported.
Gun Rights – I think the idea of gun control is good, but in a country like America where so many people already have guns its undoable so I think it should be left alone.
Environmental Issues – I think we should try and cut emissions and put pressure on countries like Brazil to protect the Rainforest
Health Care – I don’t support it, its not my fault some people can’t be bothered to work.
Gay Marriage – I’m against that, no offense to gay people but its not right in my opinion.
Iraq and Afghanistan – I think we should leave.

I’m excited about being able to vote 🙂