Fair Trade Certification:…guarantees consumers that strict economic, social and environmental criteria were met in the production and trade of an agricultural product.”(www.transfairusa.org).
Fair Labor Practices
Fair Labor Practices: are not necessarily restricted to agriculture but generally support fair wages and healthy working conditions.
Eutrophication
Eutrophication: excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life; the decomposition of the plants depletes the supply of oxygen, leading to the death of animal life.
Eutrophic
Eutrophic: (ecology) of a lake or other body of water rich in nutrients and subject to eutrophication.
Environmentally Friendly
Environmentally Friendly: A generic statement often used to designate a product or process that has a reduced ecological footprint when compared to other products/processes. Environmentally Preferable. Products, services or systems that have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products, services or systems that serve the same purpose.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): An independent executive agency of the federal government, established in 1970, responsible for the formulations & enforcement of regulations governing the release of pollutants, to protect publish health & the environment.
Environmental Cost
Environmental Cost: The monetary impact from the negative environmental effects resulting from the choices we make.
Environmentalist
Environmentalist: someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution.
Energy Star Home
Energy Star Home: about 20 to 30% more efficient than code.
Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency: Useful power output per electrical power consumed. is the ratio between the useful output of an energy conversion machine and the input, in energy terms. The useful output may be electric power, mechanical work, or heat. Energy conversion efficiency is not defined uniquely, but instead depends on the usefulness of the output.
Emission
Emission: The release of any gas, particle or vapor into the environment.
Emergent
Emergent: occurring unexpectedly and requiring urgent action, coming into existence.
Embodied Energy
Embodied Energy: is a combination of the energy required for the process to make a product and the molecular energy inherent in the product’s material content.
Ecotourism
Ecotourism; tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature.
Ecoterrorism
Ecoterrorism: violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists.
Ecological Footprint
Ecological Footprint :The resulting impacts on the environment based on the choices we make for example raw materials selection, transportation, etc.).
Ecology
Ecology: the environment as it relates to living organisms, the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment.
Eco-fashion
Eco-fashion: is a general term describing organic clothing that has addressed the needs of the environment as well as socially responsible working conditions.
Downcycling
Downcycling: The process of recycling in such a way that new products are of lesser economic value. An example would be turning nylon face fiber into park benches.
Dominance
Dominance- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another, the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not.