Acid Rain and Commercial Fishing
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A 5 page paper comparing an article on the effects of acid rain with one on the environmental costs of commercial fishing. Neither of these articles is written from the "tree hugger" perspective, but rather from a realization that active pollution abatement is not always enough. The articles discuss long-term changes in soil fertility that are now threatening New England deciduous forests and the failure of fish populations to recover despite being given "rest" times. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: KSacidRain.wps

ACID RAIN, EFFICIENCY OF TREATMENT AND ECONOMIC EQUITY
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This 10-page paper discusses the acid rain problem in Canada, and attempts to apply economic theories of equity and efficiency to the problem. Also analyzed are Canadian policies, history of acid rain, and suggested improvements to current policy. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: MTacirai.rtf

Acid Rain: Impacts to Soil and Water
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A 6 page discussion of the impacts of acid rain. This paper details the chemical impacts to soil and water as well as to the physiological function of biological organisms. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPacidRC.rtf

Action Plan: Get the Mercury Out!
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This 4 page paper discusses ways in which citizens might work to make the environment safer with regard to the danger proposed by toxic mercury. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: HVActPln.rtf

Adaptation and Australian Plant Life:
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This 5 page paper discusses the term adaptation and differentiates between physiological adaptation and structural adaptation. Furthermore, this paper examines the nature of plants from the sclerophylls family, as well as heaths. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: GSDescrp.rtf

Adding Alternative Fuel Cars to Lotus Rental Car's Fleet
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A 3 page paper discussing the state of alternative fuel choices in 2005 for the purpose of assessing the feasibility of Lotus Rental Car of adding alternative-fuel cars to its fleet. DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM, Isuzu, Mercury and Nissan all offer flex-fuel vehicles designed to operate on either gas or ethanol, or any combination. Prices are falling and are close to prices of those with standard fuel systems, and neither the customer nor the company needs to be concerned about what type of fuel is placed into the tank when the car is rented. Lotus certainly should seek negotiations on flex-fuel vehicles for its future purchases. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KSenvAltFuelCar.rtf

Addressing Research Problems in Transportation
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A 10 page paper discussing the complexities of approaching a design for assessing the true environment effect of transporting both people and products by auto or truck. The paper briefly discusses acid rain and CO2 emissions, along with efforts to produce cleaner engines and cleaner fuels, with efforts extending even to achieving driverless vehicles that have more uniform fuel usage. Assessing full environmental cost includes beginning with placement of the roadway, manufacture and use of the machinery used in construction, and other types of items. The paper concludes that a linear programming approach can be beneficial for controlling for or stripping out complicating variables. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Agent Orange: The Lingering Problems of Dioxins
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A 6 page overview of the history of Agent Orange, a carcinogenic defoliant used in Vietnam, and its relation to dioxins which still present an environmental and health threat in the U.S. in the form of industrial wastes emissions. Contends that while law are in place to regulate these emissions, they are largely ineffective and difficult to enforce. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PPagntOr.rtf

Agent Orange; Is it Poisoning Johnston Island
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This 14 page paper considers how this small atoll in the Pacific Ocean has acted as a dumping ground form many chemicals, and the effect that one in particular; Agent Orange, may have had on the flora and fauna of the area. The writer uses the limited direct evidence, and the more extensive indirect evidence to consider the current and potential damage that may be seen. The bibliography cites 15 sources.
Filename: TEageorn.wps

Agricultural Biotechnology and the Middle East
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This 18 page report discusses agricultural biotechnology with a special focus on the nations of the Middle East. Biotechnology is the name given to a variety of agricultural, automated and industrial technologies that make use of the natural operations or products of biological, thus living, things. Agricultural biotechnology offers the potential to address many problems that have had a direct and limiting impact on crop and livestock production while improving the availability of food for people throughout the world. This report also addresses the issues associated with a lack of policy associated with agricultural biotechnology and the fact that such a lack can stand in the way of larger goals of improved production and opportunity in developing nations of the world. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: BWagbio.wps

Air Pollution
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This 5 page tutorial focuses on the topic of air pollution. Specific instructions provided by a student are followed to wage a persuasive argument. Statistics are utilized and charts are included. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Air Pollution and Cancer
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A 5 page discussion of the connection between air pollution and cancer. The author discusses specific air pollutant components such as carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and nitrogen oxides in relation to their association with cancer. A brief review of the efforts which have been made to curb air pollution is also included. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: PPairCnc.rtf

Air Pollution and the Aviation Industry
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This 9 page paper examines the problem of pollution from aircraft. The paper outlines what it is, how it is caused, the effect it has and the measures that have, or have not, been taken to reduce the problem. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
Filename: TEairpol.rtf

Air Pollution in China: Problems and Solutions
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This 6 page paper provides an overview of air pollution in China, and its devastating effects. Whether or not the nation is doing enough to resolve the problem, and protect future generations, is discussed. Effects on humans, and fetal health in particular, are examined. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Air Pollution In Mexico City
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3 pages in length. Considered to be one of the world's most polluted cities, Mexico City has long experienced the detrimental impact of its overwhelming air pollution problem. The most prominent pollutant throughout the city is automobile exhaust, which still to this day maintains high concentration levels of lead from before gasoline went lead-free. Sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide present two additional pollutants hanging in the air over Mexico City, as well, proving "very difficult to control and are still very worrisome from the point of view of the health effects…because they penetrate deeply into the lungs" (Air Pollution: Mexico City). This inability to dissipate such toxic substances is due to the city's proximity; a synergistic combination of high altitude and abundant sunlight create an "ideal environment for these dangerous compounds to accumulate and linger" (Air Pollution: Mexico City), ultimately proving extraordinarily damaging to the ozone. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TLCAirMex.rtf

AIR POLLUTION, FOREST FIRES AND ASIA
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This 10-page paper discusses air pollution in Southeast Asia that is caused by forest fires. Focusing on the Indonesian fires of 1997, the essay demonstrates that such fire (and resulting pollution) could have been avoided, and that governments and private industry did not act responsibly in either preventing the crisis or solving it. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Air Pollution/Cause and Effect
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A 7 page research paper/essay that examines the cause and effect relationship of industrialization and air pollution. The problems associated with air pollution in the contemporary era are attributed to human actions. In other words, there is a direct cause-and-effect situation at work wherein human societies engage in industrialization and the myriad side effects of this industrialization results in polluting the air and the environment. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Air pollution: Problems and Solutions
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This 16 page paper addresses a variety of aspects of air pollution. Beginning with basic definitions, air pollution is clearly defined and various types of pollution are explored. Both indoor and outdoor pollution are discussed as significant problems. Causes are also addressed, including both human and natural varieties. The problems of cattle, lightening and volcanoes are noted as causes. Next, the exact effects of pollution are explained, inclusive of some documentation that poor air quality can lead to increased morbidity and mortality. The idea that air pollution is worse in the undeveloped world is highlighted and it is concluded that perhaps an economic or political solution will ultimately help to clean up the air. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: SA605air.rtf

Air Quality Laws Need to be Strengthened
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This 4 page paper examines air pollution, the laws on the books and why they need to be enforced. Recent legislation is discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA510air.rtf

Al Gore: The Right Place at the Right Time
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This 20 page paper explores Al Gore, Jr. and his political life. When Gore was nominated for the vice presidency in 1992, his father unabashedly told The New York Times that "we raised him for it." If this were not an election year, and we were to look at the life of Al Gore, Jr. We would say that his is truly an American success story. For the American body politic, he has been at the right place, at the right time. Gore has had a political lifetime "making it happen." Bibliography lists 13sources.
Filename: BBgore.doc.

Al Gore’s "Earth in the Balance"
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A 4 page paper reviewing this work by former US vice president Gore. Gore’s publisher places on the book jacket glowing terms such as “intellectual brilliance” and “impeccable scholarship” to describe the contents of Gore’s 1992 work. The positions and sentiments that Gore presents in the work are admirable and do indeed deserve greater attention before the world of the future transforms itself into the present. Gore’s suggestions are so unworkable, however, that even Gore himself abandoned all but the rhetoric throughout his eight years as Vice President, during which time he had immense opportunity to, in essence, “put his money where his mouth is.” As has been the case with so many other self-styled “environmentalists,” Gore has demonstrated that there is little semblance between what he writes in the pages of “Earth in the Balance” and what he, as politician, businessman and individual, chooses to practice. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: KSgoreBook.rtf

Al Gore’s Views on Preserving Earth’s Environment
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This 5 page report discusses Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore’s views on the issues associated withthe environment. It is one issue has made it abundantly clear that Al Gore has a front-runner position over George W. Bush. From his years in Congress, his authorship of a truly significant book detailing environmental concerns facing America and the world (the 1992 epic, Earth in the Balance), to his actions as Vice President, Gore has demonstrated his commitment to the preservation and protection of the planet’s fragile environmental systems. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Alachlor: Environmental and Human Health Impacts
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A 5 page discussion of the applications, properties, and problems associated with this widely used herbicide. This paper outlines the regulatory provisions which are in place in regard to drinking water and food regulations to protect human health. A discussion of the manner in which the chemical breaks down when it enters the environment is provided as well as is an outline of the reasons the herbicide is planned to be removed from use in the near future in response to lawsuits waged challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s interpretation of the Delaney clause in section 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: PPalachl.rtf

Aldo Leopold/ "A Sand Country Almanac"
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A 5 page review and analysis of Aldo Leopold's classic book of American nature writing , which has been compared in stature to Theoreau's "Walden." The writer concentrates on the three part structure of the book, and how this aids the author in accomplishing his purpose. No additional sources cited.
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Aldous Huxley/Island
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A 7 page paper that discusses and analyzes Aldous Huxley's last novel, Island. This novel describes a Utopian society that, in many ways, anticipated the current debates concerning sustainable growth, ecological concerns and criticism of the rampant industrialization and consumerism that has shaped so much of Western society. Basically, in this novel, Huxley offers an alternative vision to the horrors that he has warned his readers about in his earlier works, that is, over population, coercive politics, militarism, industrialization and the destruction of the environment. Examination of novel brings up the question as to whether Huxley is a prophet, a visionary or a dreamer? No additional sources cited.
Filename: khisland.rtf

Alewife Management And Ecology
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10 pages in length. The water sources of late are clearly demonstrating the consequences of overwhelming pollution and encroachment by killing off a significant percentage of alewife, which, in turn, serves to threaten those species that depend upon the fish species as a primary food source. What is being done to correct this drastic situation is too little too late according to critics, who contend that the alewife population, once so plentiful that the only implement necessary to catch them was a spoon, struggles for survival against pollution and man's encroachment upon fast disappearing spawning grounds. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Alexander Von Humboldt/ 'Personal Narrative' of So. America
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A 5 page analysis of Alexander Von Humboldt's personal accounts of South America in the early eighteenth century. A gifted naturalist, his accounts are interesting and informative of nineteenth century bias, as well as So. American reality. No additional sources cited.
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All About Hazardous Waste
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This 5 page paper discusses hazardous waste: what it is, where it comes from, what its effects on the environment and how it can be mitigated. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: HVHzWste.rtf

All Creation is Groaning/A Vision of Ecology
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A 6 page book review. All Creation is Groaning, An Interdisciplinary Vision for Life in a Sacred Universe (1999), edited by Carol Dempsey and Russell Butkus, is a fascinating anthology of essays that collectively offer an alternative vision of the environment, the current ecological crisis and the role of humanity within this complex web. This is truly a multidisciplinary text, as the its title indicates, as the contributors each present arguments that pertain to their particular field and perspective. However, basic themes can be found that run throughout these essays and which serve to illuminate the vision that is the overall point of the book. This review follows several of these themes in order to evaluate the degree of success that the editors achieve in presenting a persuasive, cohesive argument for their defining vision and the reviewer concludes that the editors achieve this purpose. No additional sources cited.
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Alternative Automobiles
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This 4 page paper examines alternative cars: electric, hydrogen, fuel cell and natural gas powered automobiles. Research is provided to support the assumptions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Alternative Energy Sources
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This 5 page paper examines alternative energy sources such as wind, the sun, and water. Its uses in cars and homes are examined. Specific information on how each energy source works is included. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Alternative Energy Sources: What is Best for America?
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In six pages this paper examines five alternative energy sources, their similarities and differences, and considers which of these sources would be best for the U.S. economy. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
Filename: TGenergy.rtf

Alternative Energy Uses And Their Impact Upon The Environment
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9 pages in length. The writer discusses how alternative energy options prove to beneficially impact the environment. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: TLCAltEn.rtf

Alternative Fuel Cars: Alcohol vs. Electric
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A 10 page paper discussing the design, durability and safety of alcohol-powered and electric cars, particularly GM's EV1. As for which is "best," it appears that alcohol-powered vehicles provide a good alternative to gasoline-powered cars for the short term, buying time for further development of the various electric versions that are becoming more common and more affordable. In the long term, however, it is the electric approach that needs to be regarded as "best." Current models are highly limited in their range, but the further development and refinement of the use of fuel cells will give future purchasers greater freedom of movement outside the city limits. Bibliography lists 15 sources in 23 footnotes.
Filename: KSaltFuelCar.wps

Alternative Fuels
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A 4 page paper discussing the alternative fuels that gain the greatest attention in 2007. The paper discusses ethanol (including biofuels), current fuel cells and hydrogen research. The paper concludes that we need clean, alternative fuels; we also can conclude that we have not yet achieved a single solution that can fully substitute for gasoline and diesel fuel. A separate PowerPointฎ presentation is available as well. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: KSenvClnFuel.rtf

Alternatives to Animal Testing
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A 4 page research paper that examines the issues surrounding alternatives to animal testing. Examination of why researchers should consider alternatives to animal testing in laboratories show that the arguments against this practice are persuasive and backed up with empirical research. These arguments state that (1) animal testing is often simply an entrenched procedure, which is continued due to tradition and law, rather than its efficacy; (2) successful alternative methods for testing have been discovered, which makes it logical to assume that further alternatives could be formulated; (3) animal testing is expensive as compared to alternative methods; (4) alternative methods are produce faster results, and (5) animal testing is cruel and, therefore, immoral. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: khanitst.rtf

Alternatives To Gas # 2
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5 pages in length. With fossil fuels rapidly depleting, the world has had to devise alternative methods by which to fuel various gas-powered machinery. Few options appear to be as workable as electricity and hydrogen fuel cells, yet there exist significant shortcomings to even the best alternative. The writer talks about these two sources of alternative fuel, including both their advantages and disadvantages. Bibliography included.
Filename: Gas3.wps

American Businesses: Addressing Hazardous Chemicals
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5 pages in length. The writer discusses the detrimental impact hazardous chemicals have upon the environment, as well as addresses current rectifying positions American businesses are taking on the issue. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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An Analysis of Food Supply Issues:
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This 15 page paper analyzes "Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply", by Vandana Shiva. This paper examines one of Shiva's arguments in detail, as well as outlining the basic argument of the entire book in an effort to support the premise of the author. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: GSDelhis.rtf

An Environmental Balancing Act: Are Aesthetics More Important than Overall Environmental Impact?
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A 7 page discussion of the contest that often erupts in scenarios involving conservation verses development. This paper presents the viewpoints and considerations that are in play in the question of whether to put a wind turbine park within view of a national park. Should aesthetics outweigh the benefits of an alternative energy source? Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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An Environmental Balancing Act: Are Aesthetics More Important than Overall Environmental Impact?
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A 9 page discussion of the contest that often erupts in scenarios involving conservation verses development. This paper presents the viewpoints and considerations that are in play in the question of whether to put a wind turbine park within view of a national park. Should aesthetics outweigh the benefits of an alternative energy source? Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: PPenvUK3.rtf

An Overview of Agenda 21
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This 3 page paper provides a brief overview of the U.N.'s ideas for the development of sustainable environments. The goals of the program are highlighted. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: SA31721.rtf

An Overview of Energy Demands and Governmental Policy
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of the energy policy dilemma with historical information as well as projections for the future. Statistics are provided. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Analysis of an Editorial
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A 3 page paper which analyzes the editorial article “Learning a Few Lessons From a Tragic Moment” by Brian Duffy. No additional sources cited.
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Apalachicola Bay: Contamination Issues
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3 pages in length. According to an article found on the Centers for Disease Control Web site, fecal contamination in Florida's Apalachicola Bay has been responsible for the spread of viral gastroenteritis in those who have eaten oysters caught from this polluted body of water. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TLCApBayCon.rtf