Sustainability
University Colloquium
ECHO
Farms
Plan B 4.0
Service Learning
100
Everything we need for our survival either directly or indirectly depends on our natural environment.
What is sustainability?
100
An environmental course designed to explore the concept of sustainability and relate to a variety of forces in the environment.
What is Colloquium?
100
A farm working to display practices in sustainable living and technology.
What is ECHO?
100
The author of Plan B 4.0, Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
Who is Lester R. Brown?
100
A student run botanical garden which highlights tropical/subtropical edible species that grow well in South Florida.
What is the Food Forest?
200
Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
What is the importance of recycling plastic?
200
This is where you feel most at "home", where you find peace and relaxation. This place can be different for everyone.
What is Sense of Place?
200
Simple, economic hand-washing stations made from local material that are not dependent on piped water.
What is the "Tippy Tap"?
200
Clearing forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land.
What is Deforestation?
200
Emphasized in Food Forest, this tree contains nutrition, extreme protein, and healing properties.
What is the Moringa Tree?
300
Renewable energy reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reliability on fuel supply and reduce power price.
What is importance of using alternative renewable energy?
300
The variety of life that can be studied on many levels such as, a pond ecosystem, or the backyard of a community house.
What is Biodiversity?
300
This can greatly increase the efficiency of a cook stove, it reduces cooking time, and fuel requirements.
What is a Pot Skirt?
300
A broad social movement with concerns for conserving the environment and improving the condition of the environment.
What is Environmentalism?
300
A smelly substance used to kill bacteria and disease found on plants.
What is Neem Oil?
400
Irrigation. This is used to help the growing of crops and landscapes.
What does the U.S. use most of its water supply for?
400
This is how you want to be remembered in future generations, or something inspiring you leave behind.
What is legacy?
400
A fuel efficient stove designed for cooking inside with a flat top for tortillas.
What is a Rocket Griddle?
400
An emerging program to save "civilization" and is the result of a growing sense of urgency to deal with environmental problems.
What is Mobilization?
400
The head founder and supervisor of the Food Forest.
Who is Arlo Simonds?
500
Surface water running off city streets, yards, paved lots, and farm fields.
What is the leading cause of pollution into our waterways?
500
"A state of harmony between men and land."
What is Conservation?
500
The second leading cause of death in children under the age of five.
What is Diarrhea?
500
The concentration of human populations into discrete areas, leading to transformation of land.
What is Urbanization?
500
A new discipline that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.
What is biomimicry?
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