USING TECHNOLOGY TO REDUCE POLLUTION We often say that we must personally act towards reducing pollution but due to our busy lifestyle we almost forget all our promises of protecting environment. The developments and inventions in technology during the last few years has made our lives easy..comfortable and fast.It has also given us options that help us reduce the carbon footprint produced by each one of us. So here are some tips of how to reduce pollution by using digital technology : 1
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE UNITED STATES The concept of affordable housing is easy and simple. Affordable housing is a term used to describe dwelling units whose total housing costs for either rented or purchased unit. Other features of affordable housing include it is well built‚ located close to transport‚ shops‚ hospitals and community services‚ as well as suited to its residents. It is for this reason that government set its goal to ensure everyone is living in housing of adequate quality at
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Transitional Housing Support Kaplan University CM-220 Unit 6 Rough Draft Project The State of Hawaii is and has been battling one of the worst drug problems of its time. “ICE‚”‚ as it is called‚ is so widely used by people of all ages‚ ethnicities‚ and of every income level. It so common that many people can’t distinguish between user and non-user. Drug abuse is so widespread that it is a contributing factor of the crime rise in Hawaii. Domestic violence
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Today I am talking about the quality of housing in the North Hill District of Akron. This issue affects everyone in the North Hill district. I live in the North Hill District and I can tell you everything I say is from experience. People are not caring about their quality of their houses. This mentality of housing quality will cause a rot in all houses in America. You no longer see a good looking house with a white picket house‚ but you see houses that look like they belong in a scary movie. All
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Research Paper on Sustainable Low- Income Housing The most successful‚ long term‚ low-income housing projects are those that use sustainable design and address the social‚ cultural‚ and economic needs of residents. Traditionally built low-income housing projects are associated with high crime rates and high mortality rates among the residents who live in them. They do not provide for the needs of residents‚ resulting in many of the problems these low-income housing projects face today. These problems
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My Ecological Footprint ended with a couple of facts attached to it. It stated that if everyone lived like I did‚ we would need 4.6 planet earths to provide all of the resources everyone needed. In order to continue in supporting my lifestyle it takes 2.5 global acres of the earths productive area. Lastly‚ what I saw on my pie chart was that the services section was the highest one at a 43%‚ while the rest were between 12% and 16%. What I feel about these findings is large disappointment. For starters
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SUSTAINABILITY My ecological footprint: After taking my Ecological Footprint quiz‚ it seems that to support the lifestyle I’m living‚ it takes 3.4 hectares of the Earth’s productive area and it requires the regenerative capacity of 1.9 planets each year. If everyone lived the same lifestyle as I do‚ it would take about 1.9 planets each year to sustain the human population – shocking‚ isn’t it? I try to make a effort to help the environment by purchasing organic food where possible‚ I don’t eat
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In 2007 when the housing market crashed the whole world was effected. Trillions of dollars have been lost and we are still trying to recover and make sense of all that took place. This economic catastrophe could have been minimized if the proper accounting practices had been followed and if the regulatory framework in place were unassailable. Alan Greenspan‚ in his evaluation of the housing crash stated‚ “...the financial system would have held together‚ had the second bulwark against crisis-our
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CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES TO REDUCE POVERTY i © 2004 by the Asian Development Bank June 2004 This publication was prepared under Regional Technical Assistance 6026: Promoting Urban Poverty Reduction through Participation in the Cities Alliance by the Agriculture‚ Natural Resources and Social Sectors Division of the Regional Sustainable Development Department‚ Asian Development Bank (ADB). The findings‚ interpretations‚ and conclusions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of ADB
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Affordable‚ secure and appropriate housing is a right‚ not a privilege‚ to all Australians. I’m proposing a campaign to make housing an issue to get people motivated about it to have safe‚ affordable and appropriate housing recognized as a right in Australia. Housing is recognized by many declarations as a right. However‚ the struggle here is to turn rights into realities. Many declarations of Rights hold housing in high esteem. Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‚ adopted
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