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In AP environmental science, our class was tasked with the job to audit the amount of energy that we use in our daily homes. Due to the fact that we are in quarantine, we are able to use the excessive amount of free time that we get each day to learn about a special skillContinue reading “At Home Energy Audit”

The city of Charlotte, North Carolina, is continuing to rise in the rankings of the total population in the US. Being one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation in terms of population as well as its reputation of being the second-largest banking city in the country, Charlotte is becoming more and more popular byContinue reading “Charlotte’s Reduction of Carbon Emmissions”

On an absolutely freezing day on February 15, 2020, our bundled up class took a short 5-minute bus to the Andover transfer station. In class before this excursion, we had gone over multiple methods of disposal as well as the effects it has on our economy, society, and environment. However, it wasn’t until when weContinue reading “Feild Trip to the Andover Transfer Station”

The category of municipal solid waste that seemed to be most abundant on all of the desks in the room was plastic packaging. Especially, in among the age group of teenagers who are constantly hungry  One environmental impact of the life cycle of plastics is the harm that they cause towards species of the ocean.Continue reading “Personal Solid Waste Reflection”

On January 28, 2020, our AP Environmental Science class had the pleasure of welcoming guest speaker, Kent Armstrong, to talk to us about his seemingly groundbreaking process of controlling as well as cleaning up toxic waste. Despite majoring in religious studies during his undergrad year, Kent took a liking towards biology and studied Terrestrial EcologyContinue reading “Kent Armstrong Presentation Review”

PBDEs, also known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers are a class of fame retardents found in many daily consumer items. Intended to slow the rate of ignition and fire growth, studys show that their bioacculimation in widlife and humans is in fact toxic and in someplaces lethal. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dNBXHJ-6mdFrqNt1aRbRfFxqx_B-jTKXoEb2icidGDI/edit?ts=5e2739c6#slide=id.g6dde70546c_0_1194