
Sustainability Matters 1: Energy consumption’s effect on humans
What is Energy? It’s the ability to move matter, the power to do work that produces light, heat, or motion, or the fuel or electricity used for power. What does
What is Energy? It’s the ability to move matter, the power to do work that produces light, heat, or motion, or the fuel or electricity used for power. What does
Subsidies and incentives are paid by governments to advance certain policies. Subsidies can be in the form of grants, loans, and loan guarantees. They can also come in the form
Energy and Society Human society is like an organism that needs a constant input of energy to keep its metabolism functioning. What that means has and continues to evolve. My
Anthropogenic Climate Change – The Human Connection Up to this point, we have discussed temperature and carbon dioxide and shown that increases in the amount of carbon dioxide in the
Last week we talked about glaciers and their impact on climate change. This week, we’ll be going into more depth while also discussing other topics such as vegetation and corals.
So far, we’ve looked at land temperatures and ocean temperatures separately. Here’s a graph which combines both the earth’s land and ocean temperatures dating back to 1880. Figure 3-9
This week we’ll be talking more about Climate Change and its impact over the years on the planet. Was there an update from 2019? The 2010’s was the hottest decade
Climate Change Concerning the next several blogs of the “Sustainability Matters” series, we will consider the science behind climate change. What we learn from climate science is one of the
Last week we touched on the subject of the effect of exponential growth on a finite resource. In this week’s blog we’ll discuss the concept of the static reserve along
Limits to Growth with the Human Population On a basic level, each additional individual requires a certain number of resources (food, water, energy, heat, shelter, medical care, etc.). As civilizations
WORKING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES