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Geography in the News

Instructions

Find a current news article (within 14 days of the due date of the assignment) that interests you and that is related to the theme- Climate, Weather and Climate Change.

For the news article you have chosen, write and submit a summary of the article.

To earn a competent grade your submission must include: the title of the news article, a one-paragraph summary of the news article in your own words (do not cut and paste from the web site) and the reference for the source of the news story (APA format).

To earn a competent grade your one paragraph summary must include explicit mention of the course theme and textbook chapter number that the news story links to. (Chapter 2- Climate, Weather and Climate Change )

The summary should also provide an objective account of the event that is featured in the article, and should describe the wider context and significance of the event.

Your submission must be between 100 and 400 words in total.

Assignment Description:

The goal of this assignment is to help you link what you are learning about in the course to real-life events in all parts of the world.

Word Count: 100 – 400 Ch. 2 Weather, Climate & Climate Change geography in the news

Sustainable vs Organic

What is the nexus between sustainability and organic farming? Is sustanable = organic?

To answer this, follow this format:

Part 1

Explain the Sustainable agriculture: how does it work, what does it do?

Part 2

What is the problem that the Sustainable agriculture addresses?

Part 3

What is the current stated of business and/or consumer adoption of the Sustainable agriculture?

Part 4

What are some of the challenges and barriers to adoption of the Sustainable agriculture, and how might those challenge be addressed?

Part 5

What are the social benefit and risks associated with the Sustainable agriculture?

Designing of a House Utilizing Passive Solar Energy

Design of a House Utilizing Passive Solar Energy

(Also solution available in SI units)

The assignment will be to “design” a house utilizing passive solar energy features in order to meet a target fraction of heating energy from the solar features. Each team will need to decide what type of passive solar configuration to use (chosen from the 94 given in Appendix A in the text). Each team’s report should include an estimate of the annual heating cost for the home along with some estimate of the cost of implementing the configuration chosen and the expected annual savings.

The data that each group will start with is:

  • –  2,500 ft2 floor space
  • –  NLC of 6-8 Btu/FHDD-ft2
  • –  Ap ranges from 200 to 500 ft2
  • –  home located Nashville, TN
  • –  base cost of home is $95/ft2
  • –  natural gas cost is $12.50/MMBtu (million Btu)
  • –  electricity cost is $0.105/kWhr
  • –  target SSF is 0.4