Assignment #3 Global Logistics – Maquilodoras In 1965‚ the Mexican government launched the Border Industrialization Program (BIP)‚ better known as the Maquiladora Program. This program’s original purpose was to absorb the excessive amount of unemployed people who resided along a narrow-band of land on the Mexican side of the American-Mexican border. Tens of thousands of Mexicans were returning from the United States upon the termination of the Bracero program that allowed Mexican agricultural
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Is Industrialisation leading to the depletion of drinking water resources? Water...Water...everywhere‚ but not a drop to drink??? How So? While seventy one percent of our planet is covered by water‚ it would seem that we could never run out of water. But did you know that of that seventy one percent water‚ ninety seven percent is salt water. Only the other three percent is fresh water‚ which is in the form of: oceans‚ glaciers
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Optimization of GSHP and GHX is a wide research area and many optimization models are proposed [6-29]. Some are focused on control and operational strategy of GSHP system [6-7‚ 9-10‚ 12-13 16]. Gao et al. [18] optimized the control strategy of an air-conditioning integrated GSHP system and obtained the reductions of energy consumption in summer. Gang et al. [19] proposed suitable operating strategies to control a hybrid energy system consisted of GSHP and a cooling tower. An artificial neural network
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The Effects of Fracking What is Fracking? Fracking‚ also referred to as fracturing or drilling‚ is the process of drilling 5‚000 to 20‚000 feet into the earth and applying hydraulic pressure to the surrounding area until it cracks. The target area for oil and gas drilling companies is in the shale‚ a soft layer of sedimentary rock broken apart by using a mixture of 98% water and 2% chemicals. These chemicals range from household cleansers to toxic chemicals‚ and is added to nearly 4 million gallons
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Imminent Water Crisis in India Nina Brooks‚ August 2007 "There will be constant competition over water‚ between farming families and urban dwellers‚ environmental conservationists and industrialists‚ minorities living off natural resources and entrepreneurs seeking to commodify the resources base for commercial gain" -UNICEF report on Indian water.[1] Intro More than two billion people worldwide live in regions facing water scarcity[2] and in India this is a particularly acute crisis. Millions
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CONTENT Unit-6: Education for Environmental Sustainability a) Meaning of sustainable development - Concept of environmental sustainability - Sustainable development from ecological perspective & biogeophysical perspective - Situation analysis: forest cover and conservation‚ bio-diversity‚ natural parts & wild life sanctuaries‚ availability of potable water‚ toilet
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Megyn McCaustland Environmental Science Final Project 5 December 2012 Environmental Science – Final Project Environmental Science has been an interest of mine since high school. I originally planned on studying environmental science upon graduation‚ but my life took a different turn when I went straight into the workforce and actually ended up in the construction industry. However‚ I chose this course in the hopes that not only would I fulfill my science credits‚ but I would take something
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Tar Sands The majority of oil used by the United States as well as internationally soon may come from the tar sands in Alberta‚ Canada. Extracting oil from tar sands is an extremely costly and immensely dirty way of obtaining fuel. There is currently a plan to build a pipeline‚ the Keystone XL‚ which will run from the supply of tar sands in Albert down the western United States to refineries in Texas. There are two major concerns when dealing with the creation of this pipeline and the increased
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The Sahara Desert is located in the northern portion of Africa and covers over 3‚500‚000 square miles (9‚000‚000 sq km) or roughly 10% of the continent (image). It is bounded in the east by the Red Sea and it stretches west to the Atlantic Ocean. To the north‚ the Sahara Desert’s northern boundary is the Mediterranean Sea‚ while in the south it ends at the Sahel‚ an area where the desert landscape transforms into a semi-arid tropical savanna. Since the Sahara Desert makes up nearly 10% of the African
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Global warming is a topic that has been in the news‚ classroom‚ and discussed in many media outlets. This controversial topic has many wondering if global warming is fact or if it is hype in order to create demands in certain markets for product marketing and profits. Even the science community cannot come to an agreement on the reality nor severity of global warming (WSJ‚ 1/27/2012). I happen to believe that the truth lies somewhere between fact and hype but my opinion leans more towards hype
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