Case Study - Adu Campus & Dorms

“Many current discussions about sustainability focus on the ways in which human activity...can be maintained in the future without exhausting all of our current resources… there has been a close correlation between the growth of human society and environmental degradation - as communities grow, the environment often declines” (603).

1. This article relates to environmental science because it discusses the humans in the environment and if precautions are not taken the resources will be eventually all used up, leaving no resources for the future overwhelming

Net zero buildings essentially produce more energy than they use and would contribute to the sustainability goals in a positive way. For operations and maintenance, all trimmings need to be kept to be composted. There needs to be a schedule set in place of what maintenance is conducted and when so there is a clear system to keep the campus clean and working as efficiently as possible. Also, when it comes to maintenance both time and money should be dedicated to repairing items on campus rather than just buying something new as to reduce waste. All of the methods above will directly increase energy efficiency and decrease waste which will get ASU closer to its sustainability

ou can only have so much good before it is all gone. Resource depletion is the biggest environmental issues known to man. As humans we’re using what we have to live, but we use more than we give out. Through science, we’re finally starting to understand that people are using too much of the resources and altering the face of the earth. If we’re not careful, these problems can’t be fixed.

Throughout world history, people have come up with brilliant new ideas to make life easier, and as time goes on, research, making food, and getting news, has all become instantaneous. It now only takes the push of a button to cook a thanksgiving meal or the click of a remote to find out what’s happening across the world. These things are often taken for granted, and rarely does someone stop and say: “I wonder what turning on this extra lamp does to the environment?” This statement sounds insignificant when there are people starving in other countries and people are training for the army. Yet, being concerned about the environment is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, the environment should be one of the biggest concerns among people, as

For over half a century, the environment has been a major geopolitical issue, in the United States and in countries around the world. Scientists have long warned us about the effects of human activity on the planet Earth. Pollution, deforestation, littering, and such have caused numerous problems for the environment. Wildlife habitats are ever-shrinking, air is becoming increasingly more difficult to breathe in urban populations, and the global climate is rising at an alarming rate. Without major changes, our world may not be sustainable for much longer. Many content creators are aware of

Audience: My essay will be focused to those groups of society who thinks conservation of the environment is just the waste of time, money, and energy. And those who think they will live today why to worry about what happen tomorrow. I will also be focusing to those who think that in this big world with the population more than 7 billion effort of conserving the environment by of one person will be like a drop of water in hot desert.

Oh, the rights of fall! Summer is retreating, migratory birds start to flock, the first crops are harvested, and (add dramatic music here) it's time for kids to go to the many colleges and universities around the country. Dorms will soon be filled, and decorating themes of all types will sprout from the various rooms. Lecture halls, laboratories, libraries, and gymnasiums are important structures to any facility of higher learning, but one type of building stands alone as the bastion of student interest: The Dorm. The dorm. That word strikes fear into the hearts of mothers concerned about their baby boy's new "home away from home". But the topic today is decorating a guy's dorm room, not Mom's trepidation about her offspring's laundry skills

But once it turns to night, look how the gradients of white, yellow and orange prevail above the shadow. That light, the proof that civilizations have destroyed the nature with less concern on their environment reflect the current crises of the environment. As a result of unsustainable development, the problems has expanded. In an attempt to contend with the environmental crises, the world must reconsider the use of resources, make it a political issues, and also convince and motivate people toward conservation. As a first step, the world is required to shift more toward renewable energy rather than oil and fossil fuel that is limited in amount and accelerate climate change. The key concept all the people could keep in mind is frugality, the wise use of resources, which can be achieved by three R’s: reduce, reuse and

Since the human history enter into the 20th century, people realize that the finite of industrial production, and the significance of the diversity; therefore, pursuing sustainability is one of the most significant goal for people to make efforts. However, achieving the goal is not easy, many factors have restriction on achieving sustainability, such as economics, politics, and culture. Because of so many restrictions on the achievement of sustainability, coordination is necessary. In these days, many universities try to make the sustainability happen. The university of British Columbia has been working to explore the sustainability for many years, and plan to advance the sustainability on their campus and beyond. To make the success of the environmental sustainability, they treat their campus as an interconnected system. They plan to transform the campus into a sustainable lab room because they believe that sustainable is not only a word to define but also a way to interact with the world. They want to become a social test-bed for sustainability. It required the coordination of the entire campus to meet their commitment. The transportation management, green building design, sustainable residential community and engaging students, staff, and faculties all work together to achieve their goal.

Barry Commoner’s book, Making Peace with the Planet, was an “extremely accessible and hard-hitting analysis of the environmental crisis (Gold). Barry Commoner made an emotional plea with the public to stop wasting money, and valuable nonrenewable resources. With this book, he provided a visual description of the conflict between the ecosphere, and the technosphere, and how the government had failed the earth. (Sapp). Some of the conflicts that affected the environment included the goods and systems that were produced by human

So, as we are human, we can do something to protect the environment. It is good to ourselves. We can do a very small thing like using less disposable goods in our daily lives. Since we cannot control the environment, we should make some safeguards before the disaster

Human life depend on the usage of resources provided by the nature. It was this way when humans first appeared and formed civilizations. Till this day, we are still using natural resources to build our society and to make our industry prosper. However, we are causing harm to the environment by using natural resource incorrectly and using more than what we needed. We cleared lands that are used to be homes to millions of species and those lands are used for agriculture and urbanization. We excessively hunt animals to meet the demand for food and

Humanity has proven ourselves to be capable of incredible feats, some which may benefit the lives of our communities, our industry, and our understanding of the world as we know it. Others can bring great harm to ourselves or to the planet that we live on. There comes a time when we must recognize how we impact our surroundings, and to ask ourselves how far we are willing to go.

Environmental problems are something which belongs to nature or known as “Mother Earth” [13]. Nature was created to help people survive from gathering foods until build a house. This phenomenon happens continuously without thinking how much damage that nature has because human’s fault. Nature gradually becomes worse and animal’s life in danger. People who are aware of the importance of nature react. Those people do several ways to save the environment. Although these efforts can return back the environment, these efforts only can be hold temporarily. This problem happens because those people who are aware of the environment only slightly; for remaining, there are people either do not know or do not care about the nature. People’s efforts