| week 4 |
Fossil Fuels (graded) |
Whether you love petroleum or hate petroleum, the fact is that you use it every day in your car, plastics, foods, medicines, health and beauty aids, fertilizers, pesticides, insulations, and polyesters (to name a few things). What are some other things that petroleum is used in?
Renewable Energy (graded) |
What are the environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of using renewable energy (wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, biomass, tidal)?
week 5
Water Pollution (graded) |
Water pollution takes a huge toll on society, both environmentally and economically. Countries fight over water, cities and states sue over water contamination up a river, and other states are now forming pacts limiting water distribution from various lakes and reservoirs. As we learned in Week 1, good or bad, water does not go away; it stays as part of the hydrologic cycle. What is polluted water?
diss 2
Global Water Pollution (graded) |
Why is water pollution more common in the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and South America and rarely in developed countries?
