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Building personal resilience through creative problem-solving during challenging times

Challenges can either be something that makes one more resilient or challenging times can bring one down to the literal and proverbial bottom. There is a saying that what does not kill one, makes one stronger.

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Human activities and the intensification of the greenhouse effect

The modern world, while no doubt has provided us with immense luxuries and facilities, it has also come at a cost that our future generation will have to pay.

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Cloud computing system installation for Centre Strada high-rise condo

The Vancouver City Council recently approved a policy requiring all new building rezoning to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold standard.

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The locavore movement and reducing personal carbon footprints

Why eat locally? Why participate in the locavore movement? The locavore movement is a movement in which one's carbon footprint is reduced by eating food grown near one's home.

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Economic costs and benefits of reducing carbon dioxide emissions

Economic analysis environmental issues Carbon Dioxide Emissions Please address. Cost Benefits Risks Limitations Problems

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Forrest Colburn's theory of apolitical consensus in Latin America

Forrest Colburn argues in his book, Latin America at the End of Politics that ideological conflicts between the conservative and liberal ideologies have lost their pull in Latin America and a new more apolitical consensus about government has emerged regionally.

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Designing a federal agency to address potable water scarcity in the United States

You are a successful upper manager at an important federal agency. The President and Congress have become concerned about scarcity of potable water in the United States.

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Theories explaining the collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization

The mystery for the collapse of the Mayan civilization has been a major focus for researchers in the field of archaeology for many years.

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Sustainability leadership and responses to global challenges

Current global occurrences have posed a great challenge to the continued existence of living things on earth. At this stage in the history of man, humanity is struggling with a lot of challenges; and these challenges are not restricted to region or race.

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Global warming as a human-caused health crisis

World Health Organization (2013) reports that, in the last century, the earth's warmth increased by approximately 0.75 degrees C. And further at more than 0.18 degrees every decade in the last 25 years.

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