The Green Engineer: Engineering Careers to Save the Earth

by Celeste Baine

As our technological abilities have advanced, many inventions have harmed our environment, ecological systems, and people. Burning fossil fuels contributes to global climate change, and creates toxins that have destroyed ecosystems. Damming rivers to harvest hydropower has endangered many types of fish. Creating a society used to disposable goods has created mountains of trash and an ocean full of plastics. Green engineering is about designing a more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981930085
• ISBN13: 9780981930084
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Engineering Education Service Center
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 14 years and up