Greening It Links

Links

Peer Sites

The few sites out there that have reached the status of authority and use their depth to call for a change.

Under the stress of entering a new environment, humans make efficient social choices in order to find common ground with others also under pressure to adapt to the new world. "Real Issues" explores the formation of cliques and self-segregation, particularly on campus, without bias, in a quest to find a solution.

cloning: what if... and the stem cell research debate

With the polarized divide between religion and science, few people are neutral about the topic of cloning and stem cell research as they use faith, be it philosophical or scientific, to dictate an impassive mode of thought to the debates. Forging a bridge between these modes are the two authors who find are finding a way to cross the gap and reach a true solution.

Others

A majority of productions on the web simply do not see their topics complexly, and as a result, their contents are constrained in effectiveness, crippling the intended message. Note what each example is doing right or wrong.

Is Recycling Good Or Bad -- Or Both?

The authors do not go straight on the offensive against one side of the argument as the title suggests, and it provides detail into the margin of error associated with using statistics in an argument as opposed to taking skewed data. The reader is lead along a seemingly sincere path dedicated to objectivism. However, with the range of data and the underlying dispute about recycling are used to support a separate topic about government regulation and subsidation.

The Eight Myths of Recycling

Economics professor Daniel Benjamin argues against recycling through a typical point-counterpoint method with supporting statistics from case studies and research, which would convince most readers. However, his more abstract reasoning proves to be more compelling, especially that for Myth Seven, and I have yet to find a fault that doesn't circumvent the economic problem and by going directly to the environmental one that works on the principle that low-value items could take up the largest volume of waste and efforts to recycle objects in this group would thereby produce the most impact on waste levels. Enlighten me when you can.

Solid Waste Recycling

Published by the US Department of Energy for kids. It also uses statistics in its argument for recycling, but the follow-up sentences designed to respond to the typical "why?" and "so?" questions of children prove to be more effective than logic in other sites such as Recycling, by Dr. Heimlich, providing an argument that, while centered upon faulty reasoning, shows reasoning and implications at a surprising level.

Environmental Defense

As an environmental non-profit organization dedicated to address environmental issues, Environmental Defense and its umbrella sites present articles to with the agenda to convince readers about the effectiveness of programs such as recycling, and the authors, through the filter of bias, are unaware of the arguments' faults, as are readers unfamiliar with thorough proofs based around causality. As a result, the pages present a convincing argument for most readers through case studies presented by ED or other environmental groups of familiar items such as cereal boxes, shipping envelopes, and food containers, examples which fall under the practice of paperboard recycling. Using the assumption that one mode of recycling is representative of the rest, the study results are then extrapolated to prove without proper causality that recycling is effective.