Research Paper Undergraduate 3,676 words

Australia's Clean Energy Finance Corporation Explained

Explores Australia's CEFC, a $10 billion government-backed fund bridging renewable energy R&D and commercial markets through loans, co-investment, and green financing.

Finance

~19 min read

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Research Paper Graduate 2,501 words

Cultural Competence Training to Reduce Mental Health Disparities Among African American Men

An annotated bibliography examining mental health disparities among African American men and the need for culturally relevant competence training among mental health workers.

Health

~13 min read

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Research Paper Undergraduate 2,917 words

Life Cycle Assessment and Carbon Footprint of Plastic Bags

Explores the life cycle assessment and carbon footprint of plastic bags, examining raw material extraction, production, disposal impacts, and strategies to reduce environmental harm.

Environment

~15 min read

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2,658 words

Coral reef desertification: global threats and management challenges

Coral reefs are under threat worldwide. An estimated 58% of reefs are classified as threatened and 11% of the original amount of coral reefs has already been lost. The makeup of remaining coral reefs is also rapidly changing.

~14 min read

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908 words

Debating global warming: natural cycles versus human causes

As a scientific concept, global warming has both proponents and disbelievers. The evidence, which can often be construed one way or another, points to the fact that pollutants have a negative impact on the environment, and that these pollutants have begun to cause a massive global weather shift.

~5 min read

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1,529 words

Overpopulation and resource depletion as environmental crises

The world population is growing at an astounding rate. As the population clock is racing towards the 7 billion mark, we are faced with a huge problem. [U.S. Census Bureau] A problem of balancing the ever-increasing demands for the earth's natural resources and the fast depleting sources.

~8 min read

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1,655 words

Food security, political stability, and international cooperation

Is there Really an Elephant in there with those Blind Men? Food security has been defined as the ability of the population to obtain a safe, nutritionally sufficient food intake through a sustainable food system that amplifies community self-sufficiency and social justice (Bellows & Hamm, 2003).

~9 min read

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696 words

Corporate ethics codes and competitive lobbying practices

Would it be unethical for company "X" that has just constructed a new plant with pollution-emission restrictors to lobby the government for stricter anti-pollution laws that could affect company "X's" competition by forcing the competition to spend capital on upgrades?

~4 min read

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758 words

Political gridlock and denial delaying action on global warming

Despite the overwhelming evidence in support of the idea that global warming is a very real phenomenon, the political inconvenience of the hard steps needed to circumvent it, such as limiting fossil fuel and meat consumption, makes the issue politically unpopular.

~4 min read

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3,310 words

Environmental justice and distributive land policy in American politics

America's environmental policy orientation has endured a tumultuous and often compromised path.

~17 min read

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