Valuable rocks that often cause war, terrible working conditions, and destruction of indigenous populations and landscapes.
What are conflict minerals?
100
Places where workers assemble computer chips.
What are clean rooms?
100
The paths by which our products get to us.
What are supply chains?
100
Not just buying but buying too much.
What is overconsumption?
100
"Resources in the wrong place."
What is waste?
200
The point at which we have used more oil than is left in the ground.
What is peak oil?
200
Social movement to make sure racial/social minorities do not bear all of the burden of toxic industry (pollution, incinerators in their neighborhoods, etc.) for the rest of us.
What is environmental justice?
200
A database that gives you current data on the environmental, social, and health impacts of individual products. (And thus would be a good resource for Assignment 3.)
What is the Good Guide?
200
A strategy whereby items are designed to break; then repair costs too much; thus, you are forced to buy another of the same item.
What is planned obsolescence?
200
The garbage that comes out of our houses and businesses.
What is municipal solid waste?
300
A product that requires 36 gallons of water to produce.
What is your daily cup of coffee?
300
Procedure by which businesses do not account for all of their costs because they don’t have to pay for harm to environment, human health, dependence on social services, etc.
What is "externalizing" costs?
300
When workers are moved to part-time or short-term contracts.
What is “casualizing” labor?
300
When we compare ourselves and our lifestyles to those of celebrities.
What is vertical expansion of our reference group?
300
Placing food and lawn scraps in a place where they can decompose and then be re-used as fertilizer.
What is composting?
400
“The oil of the 21st century.”
What is water?
400
Name for a condition when we can’t be upset about environmental problems anymore because there are so many, and we are so overwhelmed.
What is crisis fatigue?
400
The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization.
What are International Financial Institutions (IFIs)?
400
One year of the average American’s life.
What is the amount of time we spend watching advertisements?
400
Potentially toxic gunk that leaks out of landfills.