Municipal solid waste is an important environmental, health, and safety management issue.…
Category: Environmental Systems
Integrating Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, the United Nations released the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a…
Top Sustainability Topics and Relevance
When reading news articles or perusing social media, often there are topics…
Sustainability Meanings & Issues
Sustainability often has different variations in definition and application when the phrase…
A System Perspective on Carbon Capture and Storage Technology: Bridging a Clean Energy Economy
As the impacts of climate change become more apparent, a portfolio approach…
Plastic Pollution – DPSIR: Drivers, Pressures, State, Impacts, and Responses
Plastic pollution makings its way to the oceans is causing development issues…
Hazardous Chemicals in Useful Products
The City of Spokane, along with 2,500 other public entities, had filed…
Addressing Global Climate Change
The global demand for reliable and affordable energy has led to an…
Leveraging System Traps in the Global Energy System
In the global energy system, a trap that has often been overlooked…
Carbon Tax: Efficient, Effective, and Elusive
An article in the Atlantic last week stated that near-term prospects for…
Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Storage Locations in the United States
Human’s need for affordable, reliable, and accessible energy. This has led to…
Global Energy System – DPSIR: Drivers, Pressures, State, Impacts, and Responses
Analytical frameworks for assessing complex systems can be useful in understanding relationships…
Ocean Acidification and Carbon Capture
A 2020 article from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) explains…
Isn’t 8 Million Deaths a Call to Action?
A recent article from earlier this year, put out by Harvard’s School…
Oceans as Critical Elements to Carbon Sequestration
The Earth’s surface is nearly 70% water, and of that water over…
Trophic Cascade: Whales and Well-Functioning Systems
The video “How Whales Change Climate” by Sustainable Human on YouTube showcases…
Western U.S. Drought Issues
The lack of rainfall for a long period of time can lead…
Environmental Science Approach
A subject-specific approach to solution building has been an important element of…
Low-Carbon Concrete: NY Bill S542A
Concrete is one of the most widely used materials in buildings and…
The Four Main Spheres of Earth
Understanding the complexity of our planet can be simplified by viewing the…