What is sustainability?
The fair and beneficial business practices towards labor and the community and region in which a corporation conducts business?
It consists of measures of specific pollutants in urban areas, interurban air, and an index of industrial emissions primarily in rural areas.
It is the national public health agency of the United States, responsible for protecting public health by controlling and preventing diseases, injuries, and disabilities.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
An agriculture practice of cultivating a single crop in a specific area.
What is monoculture?
A renewable alternative to petroleum diesel, manufactured from vegetable oils, animal fats, or recycled restaurant gases.
What is biodiesel?
The company's strategy is to reduce its negative impact on the environment, society, and community.
What is sustainability?
It is a legally binding agreement under which industrialized countries will reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases by 5% compared to the year 1990.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
The primary federal law in the United States ensures safe drinking water for the public by authorizing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set national standards for drinking water quality.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)?
An organism that has a large impact on its ecosystem related to its abundance.
What is a keystone species?
Organic matter that has stored sunlight in chemical energy; sources include wood products, dried vegetation, crop residues, and aquatic plants.
What is biomass?
A business that will strive to minimize its ecological impact in all areas - from sourcing raw materials to production processes to shipping and administration.
What is natural capital?
When a great number of individuals either live or work in the same building, they experience all sorts of health issues that can be traced to the air quality of the building they inhabit.
It involves injecting high-pressure fluid into subterranean rocks to release oil and gas.
What is fracking?
A diverse range of species enables ecosystems to better adapt to environmental changes, withstand disruptions like disease outbreaks, and recover from natural disasters, sustaining animal and human life as we know it today.
Why is biodiversity significant in nature?
Four sets of drivers need to be addressed for global sustainability. The first set of drivers relates to the negative impact of industrialization - pollution, waste, and material consumption. True or False
True
Companies are measured on three stool lines—economic, social, and environmental. This ongoing process helps a company run a greener business and demonstrates to the community at large that they are working not just towards riches but the common good for all.
What is the triple bottom line?
Climate change. Ozone layer depletion. Ocean acidification. Chemical pollution. Nitrogen & phosphorus loading. Freshwater withdrawals. Land conversion. Biodiversity loss. Air pollution. Water. Food. Health. Education Income & work. Peace & justice. Political voice. Social equity. Gender equality. Housing. Networks. Energy.
Energy from sustainable resources, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
What are renewable energy sources?
A mysterious phenomenon that causes the majority of worker bees in a honeybee colony to disappear.
What is a colony collapse disorder?
This concept addresses the critical interdependency and supply between the population and the use of human-made capital and the maintenance and supply of natural capital.
What is natural capitalism?
The move to electronic systems has reduced the need for paper. Filtered water fountains are outside classrooms. Recycling bins have been added across the campus. LEED lighting and building upgrades have been implemented to reduce the campus's carbon footprint.
What are ways Trinity is supporting sustainability practices?
Congress designed a law to protect public health and welfare from different types of air pollution caused by a diverse array of pollution sources.
What is the Clean Air Act?
Renewable energy sources are not attractive since most of these resources are available in nature and are clean sources of energy. True or False
True
A technique misleading consumers about a product's environmental benefits.
What is greenwashing?
This concept utilizes systems analysis to frame the interaction between industrial systems and natural systems.
What is industrial ecology?