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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Over the past few weeks WholeEarthPackaging.com has helped you learn how to be environmentally friendly by teaching you eco-friendly terms. This week, we’ll dive into environmentally friendly terms beginning with the letter S.

Salvage Logging – The logging of dead or dying trees in order to improve the overall health of the forest.

Smog – A dense, discolored radiation fog, which contains large amounts of soot, ash, and other gas pollutants.

Solar Energy – Energy produced by the sun.

Solar Heating – Heat from the sun, which is absorbed by collectors and transferred into a storage unit, and is used to heat a home or building.

Solar Inverter – Also referred to as a PV inverter, an electrical device that is used to change direct current (DC) into alternating current (AC).

Solar Panel – A packed interconnected assembly of photovoltaic cells, which is used as a component in a larger photovoltaic system to provide commercial and residential buildings with electricity.

Soot – A fine, sticky powder made mostly from carbon, and formed by the burning of fossil fuels.

Sprawl – The land or area taken up by a large development or city.

Strip Mining – A form of mining in which the land and plant life covering the mineral to be mined are stripped away, severely damaging the land and limiting its uses after strip mining is finished.

Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) – This heavy, smelly gas is a major source of air pollution. It’s able to be condensed into a clear liquid, and is often used to make sulfuric acid, bleaching agents, and other products.

Surface Water – Water that is located above ground, such as the water from a lake, river, etc.

Sustainable – A product that is able to be maintained at a steady level without running out of natural resources or severely damaging our environment.

We hope you enjoyed learning about eco-friendly terms beginning with S. If you know of any other important eco-friendly terms, let us know with a comment, and please join us next week as we discuss many more eco-friendly terms.



by: Whole Earth Packaging

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