Case Study - Adu Campus & Dorms

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.

“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).

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.

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

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

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

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

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

An accommodation is the change to the environment, the way of teaching, or the allowed time for an activity for a student who may need these changes. A modification is a change to the material being taught or to a test being given to a student that may need these changes made. One example of an accommodation made for a student could be providing audio books for a student who has difficulties reading a book. Another example of an accommodation made for a student could be allowing the student to meet with a special education teacher daily. One example of a modification for a student could be changing the amount of questions on a test. Another example of modification for a student could be to include a word bank on the test when the other tests

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

However, there are some factors that are by nature opposing the achievement of the goal of sustainability and frequent use of students and staff. Because of this, it is highly recommended that steps be considered in order to assure success for the present and the future of this very important project.

As the days go by the technology of the world advances too. We sit back as people present to us these new inventions to improve our environment. Do you ever think back the materials and supplies you use for your personal needs? Over consumption of natural resources is huge problem in our world. With the new technological advances there are alternative ways to meet these needs. As I sit in my environmental science class, we discuss what natural resources are being over consumed not for our needs anymore, but for our wants.

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.

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.