by creedla | May 4, 2016 | Environmental News, Los Angeles Construction Projects
With respect to environmental awareness and protection, there exists Point-Source Pollution and Nonpoint-Source Pollution. The former refers to pollutants entering the environment directly from easily identifiable sources, such as smokestacks, pipes, or even a large...
by creedla | Apr 25, 2016 | Environmental News, Green Construction
The effects of global climate change are happening sooner than many scientists anticipated. This has resulted in architects & engineers around the world coming up with innovative solutions to help society manage a changing landscape. One such example is located in...
by creedla | Apr 20, 2016 | Environmental News, Green Construction, Los Angeles Construction Projects
The modern environmental movement began on April 22, 1970 thanks to the efforts of a Wisconsin senator named Gaylord Nelson. For on that day, Sen. Nelson proposed that Americans throughout the country be given a voice to speak out against the seemingly unchecked...
by creedla | Apr 18, 2016 | Environmental News
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located in the former Soviet Union (modern day Ukraine), was among the largest nuclear power plants in the world – until the middle of the night on April 25, 1986. That was when unauthorized tests conducted on the fourth ...
by creedla | Apr 17, 2016 | City Planners in Los Angeles, Environment, Los Angeles Construction Projects
The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the labored works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel...
