... I left Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, my destination was Western Reserve Academy, a boarding high school in Hudson. Still feeling not so comfortable and asking myself: "Why have I left the comfort of my own house and the warm temperatures of Brazil?" I was used to boiling temperatures of around 80 degrees and walking round with no top on, but now I have come to a place where ... , on that same day that I arrived at my new school, there was a hurricane alert and we all had to go to the basement and wait for about 5 hours until the alert was gone. Luckily, when I got out of the b...

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... equals one metric ton of hazardous greenhouse gasses such as, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and CFC's. These carbon credits are shockingly inexpensive as told by molly peters of the ecosystem marketplace "The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a voluntary offset program using different methodologies and standards, saw huge increases in price. Last year, their average credit prices leaped to $5.7/tCO2e in ... farms. Carbon offset producing programs like tree farms are multi-beneficial to its local environment as we see in this quote "[re]forestation in developing countries is one o...

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... gasoline have very low sulfur levels. These low sulfur gases are mainly concentrated in Europe (Rob) but levels of this gas are being reduced in the U.S. by the EPA's recently establish regulations. Hydrocarbon is a collective term for the several combinations of hydrogen and carbon that cause environmental problems. Also known as "air toxins" these compounds cause lung irritation, cancer, birth defects, and a unique ... gas powered car. Even though this car is 95% more efficient there are a few problems to consider. First problems is that the car can only go so far before they need to ...

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... because it can be extracted without burning a fossil fuel such as coal, gas, or oil. This makes geothermal energy economical and eliminates the chance of damaging the environment during transportation, storage and usage. Also, the supply of geothermal energy is continuous and will not be fluctuated by any political or economical factors. Geothermal fields produce only about one-sixth ... of the carbon dioxide that a natural gas fueled power plant produces and extremely small amount of sulfur bearing gases. Geothermal power plants are highly reliably and can operate 24 hours a day. Most ...

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... "injure" air. He then showed that the air that had been "injured" by the candle and the mouse could be restored by a plant. In 1778, Jan Ingenhousz, court physician to the Austrian Empress, repeated Priestly's experiments. He discovered that it was the influence of sun and light on the plant that could cause it to rescue a mouse in a matter of hours. In 1796, Jean Senebier, a French pastor ... , showed that Carbon Dioxide was the "fixed" or "injured" air and that plants in photosynthesis took it ... up. Soon afterwards, Theodore de Saussure showed that the increase in mass of the plant ...

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... take a run which will cut back on gas fumes given off by my car because this gives off nitrous oxide which is toxic to the lungs and contributes to the increase in ozone, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide. I tend to car pool but not quite enough, in Maryland there are designated lanes called ... would be to shop or bank on the internet because this would eliminate the use of a car but the computer would still produce small quantities of pollution into the air. The pollution produced by the computer is on a much smaller scale than the pollution caused by the fumes of a car. On the other...

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