Economic
The sum of all goods and services produced (really, consumed) by a country minus net income from abroad.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
This is comprised of interconnected elements, where the identity of the whole is more than the sum of its parts
What is a system?
These are the 3 R's in waste management. (List them in order of what to do first, second and finally third.)
What is
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
The point at which the human population will level off due to resource constraints; it is difficult to estimate precisely because of unforeseen technological advances.
What is the earth's human carrying capacity?
Modernization where the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
What is sustainable development?
The exploitation of a shared resource leading to the eventual ruin of that resource.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
These are 2 stationary and 2 mobile sources of air pollution.
What are (pick 2) buses, cars, planes, trucks and trains.
What are (pick 2) power plants, oil refineries, industrial facilities, and factories.
In this type of system the most significant responsibility is transitioned from the consumer to the the producer, the manufacturer that designed and produced the product
What is Zero Waste?
It is important to recognize and include these when communicating and engaging a target audience
What are value sets?
Four sustainability principles from the Natural Step (summarized is fine)
What is:
No accumulations of concentrations of substances from the earth’s crust such as fossil CO2, heavy metals and minerals (degradation and toxin accumulations)
No concentrations of substances produced by society, such as antibiotics and endocrine disruptors (toxin accumulations)
No degradation by physical means, such as deforestation and draining of groundwater tables. (not using resources faster than can be replenished);
Equity and access to health, influence, competence, impartiality and meaning (Social piece).
The resources and services provided by ecosystems
What is Natural Capital?
This is constituted by 4 categories of services: supporting, provisioning, regulating, and cultural.
What are Ecosystem Services?
This is a dangerous toxin that is produced when waste is incinerated. It happens when materials with chlorine (paper, PVC) and carbon (wood, food) are burned together.
(Include in your answer 2 health impacts of the toxin you listed when inhaled)
What is dioxin?
cancer, birth defects, inability to maintain pregnancy, decreased fertility, reduced sperm counts, endometriosis, diabetes, learning disabilities, immune system suppression, lung problems, skin disorders, lowered testosterone levels
These three types of categories (buckets) should be considered when formulating an engagement strategy.
What are
cognitive (knowing)
Affect (feeling)
behavior change (doing)
An issue that is often ill-defined and has high levels of scientific uncertainty AND high value conflicts, which requires engaged science.
What is a wicked problem?
This type of economy will reuse and recycle every material that is used.
What is the circular economy?
This is learning from and then emulating nature's forms, processes, and ecosystems to create more sustainable designs.
What is Biomimicry?
This country and policy follows the the "Green Fence" 10-month policy that was enacted 5 years ago which set initial standards for lower contamination levels for accepted recycling that was exported to them.
What is China's National Sword policy?
China Sword will be accepted.
This emerged from labor unions and environmental justice groups, rooted in low-income communities of color, who saw the need to phase out the industries that were harming workers, community health and the planet; and at the same time provide pathways for workers to transition to other jobs.
What is a Just Transition?
These are a new kind of business that balances purpose and profit. They are legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on their workers, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment.
What is a B-Corp
This type of economics recognizes growth cannot go on forever, nature has fundamental thresholds, and there is no assurance technology can overcome problems. Also, name an example of an externality that would be included in the cost calculations of this type of model. Explain
What is Ecological Economics?
ex: flood control from forests, public health costs from power plants, water quality issues from heavy metals
Circular interconnections in which a system's output is returned into the system that can amplify or enhance any change exponentially causing an upward or downward spiral.
Name a positive type example.
What is a reinforcing feedback loop?
Positive feedback loops “More leads to more” OR “Less leads to less”
polar ice melt, childbirth, lagoons and water quality
Negative feedback loops “More leads to less” OR “Less leads to more”
A zero waste campus manual endorsed by PLAN suggests 10 steps to zero waste. These are 5 of them.
What are:
Source Separation
Door-to-Door Collection
Composting
Recycling
Reuse and Repair
Waste Reduction Initiatives
Economic Incentives
Introduce Zero Waste Research
Demand Better Industrial Design
Respect
There are accepted principles for using effective imagery as a communication method. These are 3 of them.
What are:
Make it real (no graphs and numbers);
Make it relevant (Use people, places and symbolic objects);
Make it local;
Show positive solutions;
Make it immediate (now, not 20 years from now)
These are 7 skills a sustainability professional should acquire to work as an agent for change in this field.
(pick 7)
What are:
Perspective Taking, Cultural Awareness, Diversity Awareness, Personal and Social Responsibility, Understanding Global Systems, Conceptual Sustainability Knowledge, Sustainability Metrics, Communication Skills, Project Management, Financial Analysis/ROI, Flexibility/Adaptability, Team building/Collaborating, Consensus Building, Critical Thinking, Understanding Engagement, Understanding Social Justice Aspects, Aesthetics.