by Unity College Online | Apr 16, 2018 | Sustainability
As humans, we must interact with our environment. For millennia, we lived in balance with what the earth could provide and what we could take to build our societies. With the great technological developments of the 19th and 20th century, we have been freed from many...
by Unity College Online | Oct 26, 2017 | Sustainability
Deserts are not static. In a way, they’re like living things, expanding and shrinking with the passage of time, their borders always moving and changing. This is a perfectly natural process, and is usually not a problem. However, recent years have introduced a...
by Unity College Online | Oct 19, 2017 | Sustainability
Throughout history, humanity has created impressive new technologies to overcome obstacles and improve its quality of life. Unfortunately, these technologies have become so dominant that they now inflict tremendous harm on the natural world. This leaves humanity...
by Unity College Online | Oct 12, 2017 | Sustainability
There is a worrying problem associated with global climate change: emit too many tons of greenhouse gases and there could be an unstoppable and rapid increase in temperatures around the world. The estimated total amount of greenhouse gas that can be emitted before...
by Unity College Online | Oct 5, 2017 | Sustainability
Good environmental policies can be hugely effective for helping protect environments and lead societies to greater sustainability. Often, however, concessions are made to environmental public policies in the name of promoting business interests, or because to do the...
by Unity College Online | Sep 28, 2017 | Sustainability
Relatively untouched by human activity and allowed to attain immense size and age, old-growth forests are environments that exhibit unique properties in a number of dimensions. When allowed to flourish, they can help mitigate some of the environmental consequences of...
