Impacts of Climate Change You’ll hear the terms climate change and global warming, tossed around on the news – temperatures increasing, sea levels rising and obligatory photos of polar bears on shrinking icebergs, but what does it...
The Greenhouse Effect The Earth is surrounded by a layer called ozone (O3) – this layer is like a blanket which protects the Earth from harmful UV radiation, but also traps enough solar radiation beneath it the planet warm. This...
Building Sustainably The term built environment refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from buildings and parks or green space to neighborhoods and cities that can often...
Recycling & Sustainability Sustainability is the ability to maintain a certain status or process in existing systems. The most frequent use of the term “sustainability” is connected to biological or human systems in the context of...
Environmental Management Environmental resource management is the management of the interaction and impact of human societies on the environment. It is not, as the phrase might suggest, the management of the environment...
Renewable Energy Renewable energy is generally defined as energy that comes from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves and geothermal...
Climate Change Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions,...
What are GM foods? What's in the name? It's a bit like Shrek, just as the word 'ogre' had villagers running for their pitchforks, the word 'GM' has normally sane people making placards and burning crops. Sooooo........let's all...
Using Bacteria for Good From an early age, we're told to wash our hands, not lick the dog, put the milk back in the frige and so on. Why? Because of BACTERIA! We're told that bugs, germs AKA 'bacteria' are bad for us, will make us...
Amazing Facts about Bacteria There's some facts in life you're just glad you learnt...like, don't put your mouth under the hand-dryer! 1. Do you use the hand-dryer to save paper towels? Well, drying your hands on a paper towel reduces...
