Essays on Ecological Footprint

Ecological footprint refers to the impact of a person’s lifestyle or that of a community on the environment, which is expressed in terms of the amount of land necessary to sustain their natural resources use (Rosenberg, 1997). My results were 6.71, which means I need to reduce my ecological footprint even further with the right lifestyle choices. I realized that our lifestyles harm our environment more than we realize. The basic actions in our daily lives such as driving to school or eating meat have an adverse effect on the environment. If everyone had a similar lifestyle as ...

The first TED talk that I will review will be the talk by Jill Tarter named Join the SETI Search. It would not be true if I said that I learned a lot new information from her speech – I’ve known about the SETI beforehand and that it consists of an array of telescopes. Although it also would not be true to say that I learned nothing from this TED talk. The main goal of Jill Tarter’s speech was not to educate the broad audience about SETI's working mechanics; it was also not about explaining the recent findings ( ...

Apple Inc. is one of the leading companies in the electronics industry. The company has always been interested in high quality of manufacturing and only cooperates with suppliers that will be committed to comply with Apple’s standards. Apple developed a Code of Conduct that all overseas partners have to agree with before starting cooperation. Supplier responsibility is a vital for Apple. Apple works closely with its partners and suppliers in order to make sure that there are no violations and harm for people. If a company would like to cooperate with Apple, at first it should assess if ...

Becky TysonDate April 26th, 2015Biology IIProfessor Raven

The human population has grown tremendously worldwide since time immemorial. Originally, there was one ancestor from whom the present 7 billion human populations grew (Miller & Spoolman, 2015). The original human ancestors lived in one particular part of the globe. However, as the population increased and the need for more resources and better living conditions emerged, the people spread to different parts of the earth. The origin of man is not well known yet. However, many theories have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. Most researchers believe that Homo sapiens originated from Africa from where its descendants moved to the ...

BRICS effect on global capitalist economy

The debates about the increasing role of emerging economies became more vigorous since the global financial crisis that became a start for a new global framework with the developing countries surfacing as a major hub. The most attention is given to the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and the South Africa (BRICS) that had demonstrated high growth during the last decade against the global recession. The future dominance of the BRICS may shift the economic center towards the multipolar model. Changes in the matrix of competitive forces (finance, resources, technology) lead to a decline in the economic, political ...

Introduction

China is one of the largest countries in the world. Its territory is home to more than 21% of the world's population. The economy of China is characterized by consistently high growth rates. However, the Chinese government faces numerous economic challenges, including:

• reducing its high domestic savings rate and correspondingly low domestic demand;

• support of respective job growth for tens of millions of workers and creating new jobs; • reducing corruption and other economic crimes; • reducing harm to the environment and the growth of social inequality, which is related to the rapid transformation of the economy. Economic development was much faster in coastal areas than in inland, and approximately 200 million ...

Personal Ecological Footprint

The results for my ecological footprint are as follows:

1. If everyone lived the same lifestyle as me, the planet would require the regenerative capacity of 1.9 planets each year. 2. The comparison of my ecological footprint is that it takes 3.5 global hectares of the earth’s productive area to support my lifestyle. 3. The largest area of my footprint is taken up by food which is occupies 60% of my foot print. The second largest part is taken by goods which occupy 20% of the whole footprint. The third largest was shelter and mobility which ...