Sustainability
Cover Cropping, Composting, Crop rotation
What are the three Cs?
Green house gases.
What is the primary cause of global warming?
Denial; emotional distancing; resignation; delegation
What are emotional defense mechanisms?
A machine that uses flowing air to turn large blades that in turn power a generator and create electricity.
What is a wind turbine?
Direct payments to encourage certain activities.
What is a subsidy?
People, Planet, and Profit
What is the Triple Bottom Line framework?
Increased temperatures leading to more ice melt and reduced albedo effect.
What is a Reinforcing Feedback?
After extended time in “wild nature” we feel calmer, more focused, more empathetic and are more able to collaborate, create, solve problems
What is the 3 day effect?
A machine that uses the energy of nuclear fission to power a steam turbine.
What is a nuclear reactor?
A practice in which groups or individuals attempt to persuade a government decision maker
What is lobbying?
The increased consumption of a resource when increases in efficiency make it more widely available.
What is the Jevon’s Paradox?
9 categories that attempt to define a “safe operating space” for humanity on our planet.
What are planetary boundaries?
Psychological responses to climate change and environmental degradation, including feelings of grief, anxiety, anger, helplessness, or sadness.
What is solastalgia?
The point at which global oil production reaches its maximum rate, after which production will gradually decline.
What is peak oil?
A system that prevents any one branch of government from becoming too powerful
What are checks and balances?
The practice of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company.
What is greenwashing?
When this compound increases in the oceans due to CO2 emissions, it makes it hard for certain marine animals to form their shells.
What is Carbonic Acid?
Psychological responses to climate change and environmental degradation, including feelings of grief, anxiety, anger, helplessness, or sadness.
What are climate emotions?
An environmental policy that allows companies to buy and sell permits to emit pollutants, with the goal of reducing overall emissions
What is cap and trade?
An authoritarian system controls all power and beliefs, democratic gives the people a vote/freedom to choose
what is the Difference between authoritarian and democratic systems?
“Meet present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.”
What is the Brundtland Report Sustainability Definition?
The natural variation in Earth’s climate over hundreds of thousands of years; not what is causing current global change
Doesn’t require effort; easy in peaceful natural settings; allows brain to disengage and restore capacity
What is involuntary attention?
Captures waste heat from power plants and uses it as an additional source of heating or cooling
What is cogeneration?
This electoral system elects the candidate who received the largest number of votes in their district
What is single member district plurality system?