Ecotourism refers to responsible travel and tourism that focuses on experiencing and appreciating natural environments and wildlife while conserving and preserving them.
Ecosystem-based approach
Ecosystem-based approach refers to a holistic and integrated approach to environmental management and decision-making that focuses on the health and sustainability of ecosystems.
Ecological restoration
Ecological restoration refers to the practice of repairing, rehabilitating, or rebuilding ecosystems that have been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.
Ecological footprint
Ecological footprint is a measure of the impact of human activities on the environment.
Eco-industrial park
Eco-industrial park (EIP) is a designated area or industrial estate that aims to promote sustainable and environmentally friendly practices within industrial activities.
Earth observation
Earth observation refers to the process of collecting data and information about the Earth's surface and atmosphere using remote sensing technologies.
Ethanol
Ethanol: A type of alcohol that can be produced from different forms of biomass, such as agricultural crops. Ethanol can be burned as a fuel, often by blending it with gasoline.
Erosion
Erosion: The wearing down of land by wind or water. Erosion can be made worse by certain types of farming and logging, road building, and clearing land for development.
Energy audit
Energy audit: The process of inspecting a home, workplace, or other building in order to find ways to use less energy. For example, people might find places where they can seal cracks around windows to prevent heat from escaping during the winter.
Energy
Energy: The ability to do work. Energy comes in many forms, such as heat, light, motion, and electricity. Most of the world's energy comes from burning fossil fuels to produce heat, which can then be converted into other forms of energy, such as motion (for example, driving a car) or electricity.
Emissions
Emissions: The release of a gas (such as carbon dioxide) or other substance into the air.
Element
Element: A substance that cannot be chemically separated or broken down into other substances. All matter is composed of elements. Carbon and oxygen are examples of elements, but carbon dioxide is not an element because it can be broken down into carbon and oxygen.
Ecosystem
Ecosystem: A natural community of plants, animals, and other living organisms and the physical environment in which they live and interact.
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.