Essay Undergraduate 1,181 words

Volkswagen Emission Scandal: Ethics and Corporate Misconduct

Examines the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal, the defeat device fraud, environmental impacts, ethical violations, and failures of corporate leadership.

Ethics

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1,341 words

Saving the Brazilian Amazon through sustainable development

The Brazilian Amazon rain forest is one of the largest rain forests in the world, and it is being systematically destroyed due to overgrazing, logging, and slash and burn agriculture.

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1,742 words

Sustainable materials and practices in green interior design

Just a short few years ago "green building," "green living" and "sustainable development" were ideas and concepts known almost exclusively to the environmental and conservation movement. And to perhaps a few progressive builders and custom designers.

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2,176 words

Human responsibilities and ethical decision-making for global warming mitigation

The environment affects all aspects of life in one way or another irrespective of level within the society and global warming will remain the great concern (West, n.d).

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1,567 words

Raj Patel's critique of injustice in the global food system

In a world where obesity is the number one public health concern in many countries at the same time as the rest of the world is suffering from under-nutrition, it makes sense to ask about the global food system that would allow, or even create, such gross inequities.

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1,781 words

Global water crisis and the Gaia concept's relevance

The entire premise of the hydrological cycle is apparent when one views the planet as a living organism, the Gaia idea.

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1,137 words

The history of urban planning in the United States

Drive around a number of cities in the United States -- Houston, for example, or Los Angeles -- and you might think that urban planning was just a fantasy, since there seems to have been no thought whatsoever in terms of might be good for the long-term social, cultural, political, and economic…

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1,080 words

The origins and development of socialism from Marx to Lenin

The idea of socialism began to form as early as the 16th century when the Humanist movement pushed ideas such as equality and democracy. Although at this time it was not known as Socialism, the ideas that informed the creation of Socialism were beginning to happen.

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2,400 words

Waste gasification technology as an alternative to incineration systems

With increasing industrialization, and depleting natural environment, issues pertaining to environmental sustainability have been a major concern for the environmentalists.

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Western bias in the scientific achievements of ancient Maya civilization

While the way of "doing science" in Western cultures is based on the Greco-Roman tradition, while borrowing as much as possible from other countries, the Middle East in particular (algebra, astronomy, etc.), it still remains tied to a more Western paradigm of reductionism and linear thinking.

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