Greening College Essays Samples For Students

PLPA 200

Dear editor,
The growing of citrus fruits is pertinent for obtaining one of the most luscious fruits in the world. Citrus, which originated from south East Asia, has edible juicy fruit and fragrant flowers. In the United States, citrus is produced in California, Texas, Arizona and Florida. Florida is the biggest producer of citrus fruits in America accounting up to 70% of the total U.S production (Halbert, Susan & Manjunath, 2004). Citrus greening disease reduces yields. Scientists recommend a genetically modified citrus fruit as an option to overcome the disease. The debate on growing of genetically modified citrus plant is ...

Medical wastes are liquids and solid wastes that arise during the treatment, diagnosis, of human beings or animals. They may also arise during research while testing biological material. They are classified into two different categories that include communal waste, and biomedical waste. When the wastes are poorly managed, they result to economic and environmental costs for residents of a certain geographical area. These wastes have adverse effects on the environment and require being disposed safely through a well defined medical waster management system. The defined waste management system entails the number in which the medical waste is collected, sorted, processed, recycled ...

The world is currently debating on creation of green jobs in an attempt to transit to low carbon economy. The world also aims at reducing reliance on fossil fuels and emission of greenhouse gas (Taylor 2011). 2007/2008 global economic crisis and climate change have necessitated creation of green jobs. Many organizations such as Climate Institute in Australia, Greenpeace & European Renewable Council, and the Australian Geothermal Energy Association & Carnegie Corporation Limited are optimistic that employment will increase significantly by the year 2020 (Cato 2009).

Green jobs are quality jobs that can sustain families, and help in improving the environment. They ...

Critical Assessment of an Intervention for Sustainability

Characteristic of the Place
I’ve chosen Hong Kong as a site for this paper. Its total territory is around 1 108 square kilometers that is twice less than the territory of Tokyo or Moscow (Central Intelligence Agency, 2016). At the same time, more attention is paid to the region of Kowloon peninsula as the most densely populated area in Hong Kong (more than 7000 people per square kilometer) (Central Intelligence Agency, 2016). The Kowloon City is more specific site of Hong Kong for analysis in this paper. The chosen region differs by the high population density, ecological and ...

Environmental Management System (EMS) is a constantly evolving concept, aiming to regulate human activities in order to prevent the nature from degradation. Each EMS has generic components like policy, planning, procedures and controls, training and education, communication, assessment and improvement (Williams, P.W. and Todd, S.E., 1997). According to Todd S.E. (1996) evolution of sustainable tourism “from concept to practice” can be divided into three stages: stage one includes the development of principles on environmental management, stage two concerns sustainable practice like greening programs in tourism industry, stage three is environmental auditing. The highest point of sustainable tourism evolution should ...

Holtfreter K. and Wattanaporn K. (2013). The Transition from Prison to Community Initiative: An Examination of Gender Responsiveness for Female Offender Reentry. Criminal Justice and Behavior.
The review looks at the reentry of female prisoners based on the context of The Transition from Prison to Community Initiative. The program consists of different stages that the justice system follows to facilitate the restoration of ex-convicts into the society (Holtfreter and Wattanaporn, 2013). The writers conduct the analysis to assess the current reentry practices and policies that allow gender responsiveness. They illustrate the correctional outcomes and restoration methods in two cities ...

INTRODUCTION

Background
Medical wastes are liquids and solid wastes that arise during the treatment, diagnosis, of human beings or animals. They may also arise during research while testing biological material

These wastes have adverse effects on the environment and require to be disposed safely through a well defined medical waster management system.

THESIS

Globalization effects all the aspects of human life, and the medical sector of the economy has not been left behind. Medical wastes are adverse product of globalization that posses threat to the environment due to the effect of the wastes on the ecosystem. The medical wastes include toxic ...

Analysis of articles on ecology and creation

Ruether, Rosemary Radford Gaia and God ( Introduction and Chp. 1, "Three Classical Creation Stories." And Chp. 2, "Does Science Have a New Creation Story"?)

Lynn White, Jr. "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis"

Fox, Matthew "Viriditas: Greening Power"
In these articles, the authors consider various aspects of the debate between life and science which is all important in today’s day and age. In the first story, Ruether and Radford espouse the importance of God in the context of the creation which is not always considered appropriately but which also focuses on how the creation may be understood from a non scientific point of view. This intrinsically means ...

The trouble with fries: An analysis

“The trouble with fries” [is a very informative article on] the history of the fast food revolution. It starts with the story of Ray Krock, who made a living [out of] selling the five-spindle multi-mixer milkshake machine. He moved to San Bernardino, California [upon hearing about a hamburger stand that owned] machines capable of making forty milkshakes simultaneously. However, he developed an interest in the French-fry operation. [This is because it was the fries that ideally captured his imagination.] [From then,] he devised a way of curing potatoes to make them more suitable for [the making of] fries. He ...

Pollution Control Proposal

This proposal is submitted to the office of the City Mayor and to the office of the City Council for the purpose of establishing an environmental program that will address the issue of air pollution in the city. This proposal shall include a background on pollution and the rationale for establishing a pollution-mitigation program as well as the costs and benefits of the implementation of such a program. The proposal concludes with an indicative listing of affirmative steps leading to an approval and implementation of the proposed pollution control program.

Background

Air pollution is a serious concern in the world and is becoming a very ...

Corporate Social Responsibility & Reputation Risk

CSR may be defined as the long-term commitment of firm to follow business ethics and economic development at the same time, and to take care of all the stakeholders in the business environment including employees, investors, customers, society, culture, etc (Worthington, Ram & Jones,). CSR brings business and environment on the same page to contribute positively towards societal well-being (Kotler & Lee).
Reputation is widely defined concept of shared social notions spreading across the dimensions of economics and strategic management (Scott and Walsham). According to Fomburn (1996) who described reputation as a strategic asset benefitting the firm tangibly by lowering cost ...