How can you use your knowledge of how the Sun's angle changes over the year and passive solar energy to save on heating and cooling bills in your home?
A correctly designed overhang above windows can block summer sunlight, when the Sun is high in the sky, but allow winter sunlight through. Winter heating can be further improved with flooring that absorbs and holds onto heat into the night.
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Which of the following is true about the Pineapple Express?
A. It causes nor'easters to form. B. It brings heavy rainfall to the West Coast. C. It is part of the polar jet stream. D. It is caused by El Niño.
Many businesses are exploring and adopting the "design for the environment." Which of the following is not associated with this approach?
A. Improving public relations about the business's environmental policies B. Including an emphasis on the maintenance of cultural and biological diversity C. Work within the limits of the current incoming amounts of solar energy D. The products of a process are resources for other processes E. All of these are associated with adopting the "design for the environment."
If the Coriolis eff ect is strongest near the poles, why don’t tropical cyclones
form in these areas? What will be an ideal response?
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Dialogue of bottom and top are when local communities and civil society represent material concerns and, the structures of governance inversely represent the ideal side 2. “Habits of the heart” is when customs attached to the material practices of a people intersect with religious beliefs 3. Max Weber suggested participatory modeling as an alternative to the bureaucratic machine 4. Participation consultants are, at times, so eager to serve its paying client that they are blamed of “participation washing”