| |
Portal:Environment
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
edit
The Environment Portal
The natural environment comprises all naturally-occurring surroundings and conditions in which living things grow and interact on Earth. These include complete landscape units that function as natural systems without major human intervention, as well as plants, animals, rocks, and natural phenomena occurring within their boundaries. They also include non-local or universal natural resources that lack clear-cut boundaries, such as air, water and climate.
As human populations grow and evolve, their activity modifies the natural environment at a rapidly increasing rate, producing what is referred to as the built environment. The potential of the natural environment to sustain these anthropogenic changes while continuing to function as an ecosystem is an issue of major worldwide concern. Key environmental areas of interest include climate change, water supply and waste water, air pollution, waste management and hazardous waste, and land use issues such as deforestation, desertification, and urban sprawl.
Show new selections
- ...that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) can cause ozone depletion, and the ozone hole needs to take more than a decade to recover?
- ... that each year in 22,500 cemeteries across the United States approximately 30 million board feet (70,000 m³) of hardwoods are buried as caskets?
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller ( July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American visionary, designer, architect, poet, author, and inventor.
Throughout his life, Fuller was concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?" Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, trying to find out what an individual like him could do to improve humanity's condition that large organizations, governments, or private enterprises inherently could not do.
Wind Power is the conversion of wind energy into more useful forms, usually electricity, using wind turbines. The energy is generated in the form of electricity by converting the rotation of turbine blades into electrical current by means of an electrical generator. Wind power is used in large scale wind farms for national electrical grids as well as in small individual turbines for providing electricity to rural residences or grid-isolated locations.
|
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
|
 |
- Attention: Environment pages
- Cleanup: Bioeconomics, Biofuel, DDT (see Talk:DDT), Tributyltin
- Expand: International development, Low-carbon economy, Sustainable development
- Expert attention: Biodegradable plastic, International development
- Merge:
- Neutrality: Energy economics, Sustainability
- Requests: Migration studies, Vertical kiln
- Sources: Appropriate technology, Biodegradable plastic, Energy development, Green politics, Recycling, Sustainable agriculture
- Spam cleanup: Sustainability, Sustainable development
- Stubs: Community-led total sanitation, Environment, Environmental organizations, International development, Renewable energy, Sustainability, Waste, Water supply, More...
- Wikify:
- Worldwide view: Recycling
|
edit
Associated Wikimedia
|
|
|
