A recently conducted study of two UW engineers shows that the use of grocery delivery services can reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
“I always thought of something like a grocery delivery as a luxury or an indulgence,” said researcher Erica Wygonik, a UW Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering. “Once I started to get a sense that it might be better for the environment, I started to reconsider whether or not I’d use this service.”
According to Wygonik and Anne Goodchild, delivery services can cut down emission by roughly 50 percent. Wygonik added that although delivery vehicles emit more carbon dioxide, delivery services tend to route more efficiently.
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fatal malaria, could soon arrive in the UK.
European Union rules are posing a threat to the chances of enjoying a healthy dip in the sea at more than 50 of England’s most treasured beaches. The new regulations being brought in by the EU are up to twice as strict as current requirements and will mean beaches that fail annual tests will be deemed unfit for swimming.
Research institutions and scientists who study the impact of climate change are now noticing more and more the evidence of global warming which many of them predicted and anticipated. Below are lists of evidence that climate change is not just a prediction, it is already happening.
According to the United Nations, about 7.8 million deaths a year are caused by indoor and outdoor air pollution. U.N statistics says that AIDS kills about 1.7 million and malaria 660,000 a year worldwide, which means air pollution kills more people than both of those terrible scourges combined.
The world has seen all kinds of economic bubbles bursting. There was the Internet bubble in the 90s and then the housing bubble which caused the recent financial crisis. But experts are afraid that another bubble is blowing up at a rate faster than any other economic bubble.
Plastic bags can be very useful, however, it usually takes up to 500 years to decompose. Since floating garbage has been a major problem in the environment, experts are calling to end the use of these free bags.
The practice of recycling actually takes little time and effort for most people. Doing so can actually also bring in a twofold benefit: people get to work in helping the environment and at the same time save some money by their efforts.
Environmental change must start with changes in each individual before it can spread outwards. It is important that we first acknowledge the worst environmental problems before we can eventually find the right solutions.