268 Results Are Tagged With "Environment and Sustainability"

The objective of NewThought is to create an awareness of environmentally friendly practices that are used both abroad and domestically and bring them to elementary aged students. In addition to the environmental component, there is a cultural aspect to the program to foster understanding of different countries. This project is necessary because it is essential to educate children in order to inspire positive change in the next generation.

Bisphenol A (BPA) is an industrial chemical that has been present in many hard plastic bottles and metal-based food and beverage cans since the 1960s. Studies employing standardized toxicity tests have thus far supported the safety of current low levels of human exposure to BPA. However, on the basis of results from recent studies using novel approaches to test for subtle effects some concern about the potential effects of BPA on the brain, and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and young children. In cooperation with the National Toxicology Program, FDA?s National Center for Toxicological Research is carrying out in-depth studies to answer key questions and clarify uncertainties about the risks of BPA. Main Aim of project research based on Bisphenol-A research, provide recommendations and advice to population for environmental safety and develop relevant public health activities and documentations, The Goals are associated with 3 main issues 1. Research endocrine disruptors concentration in water reservoirs in Georgia 2. Experimental testing with goal do detect endocrine disruptors concentration levels for health safety, endocrine disruptors Penetration and intake mousers in Fish and other experimental animals. 3. Risk assessment and recommendation addressed to Public health

The school of Tourism Natural Resource Management of Maasai Mara University is implementing a tree planting project as part of the it?s environmental sustainability programme. Close to 700 tree seedlings were planted in January 2015 at 3 different sites within the main campus grounds. Following an assessment by a team from the school a recommendation was made to allocate these seedlings for maintenance to TNRM students. The Narok County where the Maasai Mara University is situated is generally an arid and semi-arid zone. The community largely has no culture of planting and maintaining trees. Pressure on the established pastoralism is forcing many to resort to alternative livelihoods such as charcoal burning. Proximity to Nairobi has ensured a constant reliable market for the charcoal. However, there is no planting to replace the ones cut down. This has led to degraded lands, impoverished soils and bare lands. In an attempt to control this wanton environmental degradation, the school of tourism and natural resources is undertaking a sustainability agenda in the University, with a view to extending it to the entire Narok County, and to the neighbouring Tanzania where the community shares a boundary.