Intro Concepts
The capacity to support, maintain, or endure; it can indicate both a goal and a process.
Sustainability
Basic rights afforded or assured to every human being.
Human Rights
This is the significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods of time caused by human activities.
Climate Change
This refers to the amount of money necessary to meet basic needs such as food, clothing, and shelter.
Absolute Poverty
This often controversial category of food is also a key piece of what allows us to sustain the diets of a population of this size.
GMOs
These three components compose what is known as "the Triple Bottom Line."
People, Planet, Profit
The continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
This is the variety of life on planet earth.
Biodiversity
Means of exchanging ideas, discourse, disseminating current best practices and knowledge, greater opportunity, self awareness, perspective, etc
Education
A problem without a clear, definitive answer where both sides have seemingly valid arguments
Wicked Problem
An individual or business promoting something as sustainable – either the business as a whole or an initiative, product or activity while actually continuing to operate in socially and environmentally damaging ways.
Greenwashing
This is an alternative approach to conventional trade and is based on a partnership between producers and consumers.
Fairtrade
This six-letter acronym lists the foremost environmental challenges we are facing.
HIPPO (Double points if you can name them all)
This Implies/enforces a belief of introducing a way of life upon another area/people seen as better and more developed. Often leads to series of servitude, manipulation, and worse.
Colonialism
This is a manufacturing philosophy that aims to achieve higher productivity by standardizing the output, using conveyor assembly lines, and breaking the work into small, deskilled tasks.
Fordism
A planned downscaling of energy and resource use to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a safe, just and equitable way.
Degrowth
Poverty, pay, and working conditions all fall within this ethics category.
Labor Issues
The practice of exchanging part of national emissions allowances, allowing countries to trade their excess allotted emissions allowances, and allowing other countries to consider the purchased allowances in achieving their respective reduction commitments
Emissions Trading
This oxymoronic phrase is not possible to achieve when following a key principle of the first word.
Sustainable Development
Consumer response to the introduction of new eco-efficient technologies or products that tend to offset the beneficial effects by perpetuating or increasing consumption of these products.
Rebound Effect (Double points if you can give an example that isn't vehicle efficiency related)
Compared with early industrial products, modern alternatives can generate more value by being produced on a much larger scale with less impact and using less material, known as this concept.
Eco-Efficiency
This form of ethics refers to eternal, universally applicable moral principles, objective qualities, and rational determination.
Absolutism
This international effort at addressing climate change pertains to developed countries and mandatory targets for reduction goals.
Kyoto Protocol
Decent Work and Economic Growth, No Poverty, and Clean Water and Sanitation are just three of the 17 from this list.
United Nations Sustainability Goals
The notion that during early industrialization, economies use material resources more intensively, until a threshold is reached after which structural changes in the economy and technology lead to progressively less-intensive materials use.
Ecological Kuznets Curve Hypothesis