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Freon v. Tetrafluoroethane Refrigeration

ozone layer of the Earth. The ozone layer is the atmospheric layer that protects the planet and its inhabitants from the suns har...

Environmental Effects of De-Icing by Airlines

In five pages the environmental impact as well as the attempts of the airline industry to lessen the negative effects of de-icing ...

Climate of the Earth and the Impact of Volcanoes

This paper discusses how volcanoes impact the climate of the earth and also considers the environmental effects of global warming ...

1996's Oil Spill Off Rhode Island's Coast

seas forced the oil barge "North Cape" into Rhode Islands Nebraska Shoal at Moonstone Beach near South Kingston, Rhode Island, an ...

Overview of an Environmental Plan

by which to apply it to something as significant as environmental degradation. Inasmuch as humanity seeks to attain a better exis...

Positive Accounting Theory and Environmental Accounting

to supply a monitoring device to reduce the information between the principals (i.e. the investors) and the agents (i.e. the manag...

Outline for Proposals for 10 Dissertations

easy to obtain. However, with organisations such as the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance in London there is a good sourc...

La Nina, El Nino, and Ecological Impacts

the number and severity of cyclones, disruptions to fisheries and destruction of coral reefs, flooding, mudslides, death inflictin...

Environment and Diesel Fuel

using solar energy to decompose water, and heat from the earths interior. On our short human time scale, this brief "fossil-fuel ...

Dinosaur Extinction and Catastrophism

In eight pages the events leading to dinosaur extinction are discussed and includ the environmental events such as the suggestion ...

Small Business and the Costs of Government Interference

In seven pages private businesses' compliance to government regulations are examined with a discussion of economic and tax issues ...

Hybrid Cars and Their Impact

In five pages this paper examines the socioeconomic, political, and environmental impacts of hybrid automobiles following their 20...

Issue of Municipal Waste

Printed circuit boards containing arsenic. * CRTs containing lead and barium. These are all parts of computer equipment and obsol...

Environmental Impacts of Herbicides

The environmental impacts of herbicides are assessed in a pro and con assessment consisting of nine pages. Nine sources are cited...

Environmental Regulation Tools

In ten pages this paper discusses how environmental waste can be regulated by the EU through such tools as emissions trading, eco ...

A Discussion of Acid Rain

of fossil fuels from coal-powered plants and automobiles), the pH scale, which measures acidity, drops, meaning a component is mor...

Environmental Issues and Role of Accountants

and include a rash of notes in the financial reports but moving external auditors into a more proactive role in terms of environme...

Teenagers and Depression

however, contends that it is both biological and environmental factors which cause this condition. Regardless of the cause, depre...

The Environmental Impact of Using Alternative Energy Sources

It was determined that not only did the planet harbor external thermal and dynamic energy, but it had that same activity internall...

Environmental Racism and Nuclear Colonialism

In five pages this paper discusses nuclear colonialism and environmental racism and the impact of technology on the contemporary w...

The Environmental Impact of the Attack on the World Trade Center

that asbestos readings alone, which registered twice the toxicity level at 2.1 percent when ground samples were tested. As well, ...

Legal Implications Involving a Hypothetical Land Owner and Pollution Issues

Act of 1963, it still did not address all potential pollutants such as those emitted by Mr. Smiths smoke stacks; as a result, some...

Southeast Asia Development Post 1997

collapse of many of its financial institutions, loans had been made with insufficient consideration, when the economy collapsed in...

Liability and Environmental Law

being greater than only the surface a survey undertaken in the 1980s in London by the London Waste Regulation Authority. Here the ...

Impacts of Socioeconomic, Behavioral, and Environmental Factors on New Zealanders' Health

to be significantly more susceptible to the detrimental affects than others. Such locales as New Zealand appear to be on a direct...

The Importance of Biodiversity

beyond the "natural" extinction process and is a direct result of mankind and his abuses of the environment. The problem...

Canadian Environmental Conservation and Aboriginal Involvement

from the mountain. Since that time FOCS have taken a variety of initiatives to try and inform the public as to the environmental i...

Media and Environmental Issues

any news interest in the first place: The scientific conviction that global warming is happening and is being caused by man incre...

Definition of Ecological Footprints

consideration how rich countries use trade and technology to import resource they do not possess (Holtzman, 1999). Other factors...

Environment and Global Trade

There are intercountry connections. When asking the question of ourselves whether globalization can be sustained, in light of ...