Engineering and the Environment
This type of green stormwater infrastructure rises high above the others and helps reduce heat island effect and air pollutants while making a habitat for animals.
What are green roofs?
The long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns due to natural or human activities
What is climate change?
These sites are places that have been contaminated with bad toxins/pollutants that the Environmental Protection Agency is keeping record of the ensure that sites return to productive use.
What are superfund sites?
This concept is one of the oldest and largest sources of renewable energy and uses the natural flow of moving water to generate electricty
What is hydropower/hydroelectric power/energy?
This AVELA instructor has a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
Who is Nathalie?
In 2019, 53.6 million metric tons of this type of waste was produced in part due to increased digitalization and consumerism.
What is electronic waste?
One way that you can examine your own carbon emissions is by examining this concept
What is a carbon footprint?
What is the father (of the environmental justice movement)?
While Thomas Edison is known for developing Direct Current (DC) power in 1880, this scientist developed Alternating Current (AC) power in 1887.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
This AVELA instructor is into fashion sustainability
Who is Ebu
What are aggregates?
There are many ways that an individual can play their part in the fight against climate change; one way is by opting for this type of animal-free diet.
What is a vegan diet?
There is over 600k square miles of plastics in this large ocean, effecting thousands of animal and human populations.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Wind turbine designs can be categorized in two general ways that focus on the orientation of the turbines
This AVELA instructor plays the cello and is currently on vacation in Italy
Who is Andres?
The UW campus has a lot of examples of green stormwater infrastructure, but most notably has a lot of this concept that helps cool down temperatures on campus.
What is tree canopy?
This industry, which Nathalie has worked in before, contributes to a little less than 60% of global CO2 emissions every year
What is the construction industry?
What are socially vulnerable communities?
This foundation of healthy buildings refers to the body's immediate response to environment heat or temperature stress
What is thermal health?
This AVELA instructor worked with the City of Portland urban forestry department and grayback forestry
Who is Ahmon?
Cohort 3 explored potential applications for coding in climate change work using this coding language
What is Python?
Climate change is said to be irreversible by this year
What is 2030?
The sanitation strike in 1968 in this southern city kicked off the environmental justice movement and drew crowds of hundreds in support of better working conditions
What is Memphis, Tennessee?
Healthy buildings refer to buildings that are at the intersection of global health and these 16 aims described by the United Nations
What are the sustainable development goals?
This AVELA instructor considered himself an average obsessive Bad Bunny fan
Who is Herminio?