the action of clearing a wide area of trees.
Deforestation is cutting down a large number of trees and clearing out forest areas. The various reasons behind these human activities are increasing the space for human usage like logging or wood extraction, agricultural expansion, infrastructure expansion etc.
Example: Clearing land for cattle ranching is the most common cause of deforestation.
en: la déforestation
Eco-Friendly
noun
Being eco-friendly means being 'designed to have little or no damaging effect on the environment'
Example: Their stated focus is on natural, eco-friendly products that do not use harmful ingredients that act as irritants, pollutants or carcinogenics.
en: Respectueux de la nature
Eco-responsible
noun
Being eco-responsible means paying attention to the choice of activities. It also means basing decisions on values related to respect for the environment, of course, but also on human values. Ecological responsility means to us protecting the environment and ist resources.
Eco-responsibility refers to all actions aimed at limiting the impact on the environment of the daily activity of local authorities.
Example: Baladéo proposes a new eco-friendly bento model with double compartment.
en: Eco-responsable
environmental impact
noun
Environmental impacts are changes in the natural or built environment, resulting directly from an activity, that can have adverse effects on the air, land, water, fish, and wildlife or the inhabitants of the ecosystem.
Humans impact the physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation.
Example: We must pay attention to environmental impacts.
en: impact environnemental
frequency
noun
Frequency describes the number of waves that pass a fixed place in a given amount of time. So if the time it takes for a wave to pass is is 1/2 second, the frequency is 2 per second. If it takes 1/100 of an hour, the frequency is 100 per hour.
Example: Buses run frequently between the city and the airport.
The frequency of Kara's phone calls increased rapidly.
en: la fréquence
greenwashing
noun
Greenwashing is a communication and marketing strategy adopted by companies or other organizations. It consists in putting forward ecological arguments in order to forge an ecologically responsible image among the public.
Example: While green marketing and green initiatives can benefit companies, very few things can take a company down as quickly as greenwashing.
How do you use greenwashing in a sentence?
The campaign was little more than greenwashing to improve the oil company's image.
en: écoblanchiment
monitored
verb
to watch, keep track of, or check usually for a special purpose.
observe and check the progress or quality of (something) over a period of time; keep under systematic review.
Example: The nurse smiled again and studied the micro in her hand, which monitored his vitals.
en: surveillée
natural resources
noun
Sources of material and energy that are economically accessible in the natural environment in primary form before their transformation by human activity. A natural resource may be renewable on a human scale (animal or plant biomass, water) or not (metallic resources, minerals, fossil energy resources, uranium).
Example: Natural resources are used to make food, fuel and raw materials for the production of goods.
en: ressources naturelles
recycled
adjective
Recycling is the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products. Recycling can benefit your community and the environment.
Example: They're studying various ways to recycle garbage into fuel.
en: recyclé
sustainable
noun
able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
Sustainability consists of fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations, while ensuring a balance between economic growth, environmental care and social well-being.
3 types of sustainability:The figure at the top of this page suggests that there are three pillars of sustainability – economic viability, environmental protection and social equity.
Example: The food system must become sustainable.
en: durable
tannery
a place where animal skins are tanned and made into leather.
Example: The town has rope and carriage factories, and close by is a large tannery, worked by convict labour, and supplying the army.
en: tannerie
voltage
noun
Voltage is the pressure from an electrical circuit's power source that pushes charged electrons (current) through a conducting loop, enabling them to do work such as illuminating a light.
Example: We measured the change in voltage across the circuit.
en: tension
welfare
noun
the state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or prosperity.
