1st draft of the essay There’ve been always an argument between the benefits of commuting with public transit and cars. The famous saying, “Haste makes waste” makes this topic very clear. As America is a commuter culture, people need to find the most beneficial way to commute. According to the article “The Bus, a Modern Panacea” by Lester Detroit, student should take the bus more seriously because it could solve many individual, local and global problems. The author states that commuting with public transit has more benefits than driving a car each day to school.
Should Herman Miller use PVC or TPU in its new chair? Justify your answer. Deciding between PVC and TPU, which PVC violated their “Environment for Design” strategy, and TPU, a more expensive and untested sustainable alternative for the chairs arm pads, was a challenge that would impact both deliverables. Both the development and the supply chain team advocated using the PVC material because manufacturing the mirra chair is toxic and is being released. Based on Herman Miller’s historic commitment to innovative environmental processes
Mexico City took these schemes to the next level by banning drivers from using their cars one weekday per week, based on their number plate, massively reducing the amount of cars. There is also larger scale ways of tackling pollution by legislation, which are laws which aim to reduce pollution by limiting emissions and
City Road, like many others is widely used by pedestrians, workers, road users and the way in which City Road is organised, is largely controlled by the street furniture and signage used. These, direct and aid both pedestrians and road users, so that they not only remain safe while they go on with their daily lives, but also, so they get what they need out of the road, depending on the activities they are carrying out and the needs they may have, i.e. ramps for wheelchair users, larger roads for congestion areas. Visual aids for visually impaired. For example, traffic lights are there to prevent the build-up of traffic and allowing the traffic to flow smoothly so that the road users get to their destination without the hold up, but traffic lights also aid pedestrians in crossing the road safely.
However the simple electric motors have been around for awhile, The ones used in transportation are becoming quite popular, especially in areas where there is a problem with smog. Electric motors are found on trains, cars, and a lot of manufacturing equipment and can even be found your DVD player. Diesel Diesels are the leaders for engines being used on the market today. They have a wide variety of used from simple little engine to your
This road was very windy and treacherous for travelers, but many people still used it because it was all that was available for traveling through Putnam County. But, when the Interstate System began to grow, people in the area became interested in a new idea. This idea was a road, a road that was four paved lanes, safe to travel on, and faster. Engineers mapped this new road, Interstate 40. This road was mapped to go through Putnam County.
Ethanol is a healthy alternative to oil. Using food crops to produce oil aids our independence but, it also has the potential to drain our food supply, especially in a time of emergency. All these things give example of the many ways hemp oil could potentially replace our dependence on foreign oils and propel us into more eco-friendly options to sustain our daily lives. The plant would benefit people if we were to let it thrive and have taxes on different productions. The author closes by saying the government is preventing farmers from growing hemp for any reason and spends four billion dollars a year trying to keep it
Public transportation in Minnesota is also very expensive and there is a process that one needs to go through to access it. For example, you have to call to schedule a taxi or you have to follow a schedule for the buses which at times can be very stressful and sometimes a lengthily process. In Liberia, public transportation is very cheap and easy to access and it is the most common way of transportation because cars are very expensive and not affordable. In Liberia one does not need to call to arrange a taxi pick up, or follow a specific bus schedule. You just walk up in the street and stop a taxi for a ride which is very convenient.
Lowering the Drinking age In today’s world teenagers have built up a rebellious tendency, they always want to do things they are told not to do. The same comes with alcohol; laws that were created to avoid reckless driving and take the death rate in traffic accidents down have made drinking a bigger problem. For example in anarticle by Melissa Giamo a chief of police from Boulder Colorado named Mark Beckner is interviewed about this topic and makes some of the same points. He says “We're not in a situation where we can stop it. The best we can do is try to contain it.”(Giamo 1) Giamo then asks Beckner if they enforce it and Beckner replies "Well, we do enforce it, but what we're seeing is it's not being effective.
According to the Webster’s Dictionary, home is defined as “Ones dwelling place or residence”. In our society today it is not uncommon for public parks to be the dwelling place or residence for homeless individuals. Public parks are normally viewed as public land used for recreation, however many homeless people refer to public parks as home. There are many issues involving the combination of public parks and homelessness, in fact those issues are just as prevalent today as they were in the past. The history of parks notes, Central Park in New York City as being the first landscaped public park in the United States.