Environmental Issues

With fair-trade coffee and organic fruit now standard on grocery shelves, consumers concerned with working conditions, environmental issues and outsourcing are now demanding similar accountability for their T-shirts. And some retailers are doing what was once unthinkable, handing over information about exactly how, and where, their products were made. Everlane, an online boutique, last week added paragraphs to its Web site describing the factories where its products are made.…

construction waste, technically known as Construction and Demolition Waste - RCD, recent concern in the issue of solid waste, due to the significant environmental and health impacts due to its large volume usually deposited irregularly, lack of policies public aimed at managing this issue and the lack of seriousness of this problem by society, now presents itself as a necessity and environmental health. In Santos, SP, Brazil, the question presents itself differently due to…

waste land and in more than 3 thousand lexes distributed by the country. Issues such as global warming caused by emissions of greenhouse gases, increased awareness worldwide, drawing attention to the issue of humanity and the fate of the generation of waste. It is natural therefore that we should work that environmental awareness especially with the new generations. The point of departure for such discussions is the Environmental Education which gives subsidies to awaken thoughts and…

the theme Environmental Education and Citizenship in School Education Center Aracatu, located in the town of Ba-Aracatu. This study is a survey conducted in 2010 with students of the afternoon shift, where the data were collected through open-ended questionnaires, and analyzed in this study the relative responses to environmental issues, the students' knowledge and how they are addressed environmental issues by teachers. The results show that most students are aware of environmental…

strike new attitudes related to environmental problems. These new attitudes include a continuous changing process on the manner to manage their business in the organizations. Thus, some industrial companies are developing new ways to deal with the environmental problems through auto-regulation mechanisms or proactive environmental management. Key words: Auto-regulation, proactive company, business strategy and environment, environmental technologies, environmental management tools.

ASTRACT This monograph examines the inapplicability of environmental legislation over the environment in the city of Caxias (MA), highlighting the environmental resources in the country, treating them in isolation, founded on reason that the instruments and mechanisms required to manage the environment have not yet developed to its fullest. About this same aspect, we will study the administrative and judicial inaction on environmental conservation in our county. Also, the civil and…

chromatography on a column of silica / alumina, generating two major fractions: saturated hydrocarbons (F1) and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (F2). The F2 fraction was analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in a system GC/ TOFMS. Several PAHs of environmental importance have been identified, and their structures suggest contamination of pyrolytic and petrogenic origin. The comparison between the points considered demonstrates the ability of dilution of the pond. The…

Direct discharge Acid mine drainage in the Rio Tinto River. See also: Sewerage, Industrial waste, and Environmental issues with mining Pollutants enter rivers and the sea directly from urban sewerage and industrial waste discharges, sometimes in the form of hazardous and toxic wastes. Inland mining for copper, gold. etc., is another source of marine pollution. Most of the pollution is simply soil, which ends up in rivers flowing to the sea. However, some minerals discharged in the course

a survey of tourists in the city of Campos de Jordão, a popular destination for domestic and international tourists in South-East Brazil. I used semi-structured interviews to assess the attitudes and awareness of tourists to climate change and environmental conservation. The results of the survey suggested that climate is a very important deciding factor for tourists who choose to come to Campos. Furthermore, although there is a general awareness of the phenomenon of global climate…

full-text (pdf) Psychological stress. Recall that when environmental demands outstrip an individual’s ability to cope, a stress response is triggered, consisting of negative emotional and cognitive states. The psychological stress perspective The psychological stress tradition places emphasis on the organism’s perception and evaluation of the potential harm posed by objective environmental experiences. When their environmental demands are perceived to exceed their abilities to…