The Environmental Cost of Clothes

... didn’t factor in either the real cost of labor or the environmental damage Those costs were left for future generations to cover in health care, clean-up and other forms of support The result is that ... to give the garments a sustainability store Part of the problem for the apparel industry is the complexity of the supply chain There are many bits and bobs that go...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2015, 01:23

... Prüss-Üstün, Annette Preventing disease through healthy environments Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease / Prüss-Üstün A, Corvalán C Environmental monitoring Cost of illness ... much can the burden of disease be reduced by reducing environmental risks to health? If we can estimate the burden of disease from environmenta...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... acquisition costs of database hardware, and no indirect administration costs of managing and scaling your hardware environment That’s because Amazon DynamoDB isn’t database software It’s a database service ... was calculated using the Amazon EC2 Cost Comparison Calculator Page of 14 Amazon Web Services – The Total of (Non) Ownership of a NoSQL Database...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... provinces of British Columbia and Manitoba forged an agreement establishing the initiative Since that time, Montana and Utah have also signed on as participants, and Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and ... federally-based standards: the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), and New Source Performa...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Ostro, Bart Outdoor air pollution : assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels / Bart Ostro (Environmental burden of disease ... Citation Ostro B Outdoor air pollution: Assessing the environmental burden of disease at national and local levels Geneva, World Heal...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... preparation of this report The full report should be referenced as follows: UNEP (2010) Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production: Priority Products and Materials, A Report of the ... the issues of decoupling, biofuels, water, metal stocks and flows and environmental impacts The work of these groups is related as follows:...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... February 2002 SUMMARY THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACKS A Preliminary Assessment February 2002 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS • The terror attacks on the World Trade Center, in addition ... recommendations for government action based on our initial research and analysis CHAPTER I AN UNPRECEDENTED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSAULT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IM...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... crockery, glassware & cutlery where possible (to reduce waste) This is part of Greener Events , a guide on reducing the environmental impacts of conferences and seminars There are also companion guides ... suitable venue and to aid planning discussions with management and staff at the venue A copy should be passed to the venue manager by the event mana...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20

... High Schools To increase the number of students who graduate from high school, the nation s secondary schools must address the reasons why most students drop out In a recent survey of high school ... higher percentages of students who are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches (a measure of poverty).b  High school students of low-income families drop o...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... Situation, Table A- 12 (march 2010) This rate is seasonally adjusted U.s Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor statistics, Historical Data, Table A- 12 21 U.s Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor ... seasonally adjusted; numbers may not equal totals due to rounding A YEAR OR MORE: The high CosT of Long-Term UnempLoymenT | 13 14 | 667 51 1,189 A YEAR OR MORE...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... Page Report on Environmental Benefits of Recycling Table of Contents Preface In March 2008, Roger Brewster of Metal Interests Limited, UK, on behalf of the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) ... illustrate the effects of deviations from benchmark conditions Page 20 Report on Environmental Benefits of Recycling Table of Contents Primary...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... Glossary of Terms Foreword Foreword Foreword by the President of The Brewers of Europe I am delighted to welcome The Brewers of Europe’s first ever report on The Environmental Performance of the European ... expectations Therefore, The Brewers of Europe commissioned a study to describe the environmental performance of the brewing sector in Europe Thi...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20

... the three main cost inputs to the model: the cost of a year of first-line treatment; the cost of a year of second-line treatment; and the cost of a resistance assay For the treatment costs, we ... duration on treatment was very small Table indicates the cost and other input parameters used in the analysis Second-line therapy costs nearly tw...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... addressing the issues of decoupling, biofuels, water, metal stocks and flows and environmental impacts The work of these groups is related as follows: The Working Group on the Environmental Impacts of ... understanding of the anthropogenic flows and stocks and their potential scarcity The Working Group on Biofuels focuses on the specific topic of biofue...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20