Oct 25th, 2009
Archive for the tag 'Environment'
Oct 25th, 2009
Aug 25th, 2009
Article: Is There an Eco-friendly Way to Dispose of My Car at the End of Its Life?
Your car has served you faithfully for many years. It’s reliably taken you and your partner and children to work, school and on holidays, through wind and snow, rain and sun, without ever once complaining or breaking down – even when you’ve filled it with rubbish and taken it to the local dump. In return for many thousands of miles of reliability, you’ve had it checked, serviced and MOT tested regularly, kept it fuelled, oiled and watered, and occasionally treated it to a new
Jul 23rd, 2009
Article: Sustainable Development: a History of Two Words and Few Facts
In 1987, the United Nations Environment Programme, led by the former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, worked examining the position of the contemporary world and demonstrated with scientific data that the global society was destroying the environment and affecting wide segments of the worldwide population by submitting them to poverty. This analysis was published in a book named “Our Common Future,, based on the Brundtland Report conclusions. In this report, the term
Jun 18th, 2009
Article: Challenges and Mitigation Plans in Sustainability Implementation
Sustainability is still in a premature stage and this is especially true for developing countries. There are common challenges that many people need to consider during the implementation of the concept. This article will explore these challenges and give suggestions on how to mitigate them. The challenges can be separated into three areas, namely internal, client, and government.
Internal challenges and mitigation
Internal challenge is the first thing that you