In Business
This department is responsible for the selection, recruitment, appraisal, training, and development of staff in accordance with employment legislation and the welfare needs of employees.
Human Resources
These are voluntary identification of the product developed by governments, manufacturers, and third-party organizations.
Eco-labels
This is the current, unsustainable norm regarding the production, use, and disposal of goods.
Linear Economic Model
This is the year that Northwood University was founded.
1959
What does LEED stand for?
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
A person, group, or organization that has an interest or a concern in the operations of a business organization.
Stakeholder
This is the trend of encouraging people/groups/businesses to share sustainability-based ideas more openly so that sustainability can move further, faster
Networking (Would also accept "Education")
This concept either "is" or "isn't" rather than existing on a gradual path of improvement like sustainability does.
Circular Economy
This person was a guest speaker in our class and is one of the owners of the local store, FILL.
Kristin Cronkright
What are the possible certification levels within the LEED system?
LEED Certified, Certified Silver, Certified Gold, Certified Platinum
This involves the formation of a business's goals, objectives, and societal role moving forward. It is a crucial stage to incorporate sustainability if it is ever going to occur.
Corporate Visioning
This alliterative concept notes that those organizations that pollute the natural environment should pay, through either fines or taxation, for the measures needed to reduce or clear up that pollution.
Polluter Pays Principle
To make greater use of biological resources instead of fossil-based resources, and to use biological resources within their sustainable limits is known as this.
Bio-economy
What time were/are office hours for this course?
Tuesdays from 4:30-5:30pm
This practice forgoes the usual building materials on top of a building in favor of living plants.
Green Roofing
This concept says that manufacturers and importers of products should bear a significant degree of responsibility for the environmental impacts of their products throughout the product life-cycle.
Extended Producer Responsibility
This is a tool for managing the impacts of an organization’s environmental impacts by providing a clearly structured approach to planning and implementing environment actions.
Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
This is a "frightening" product that does not have easy-to-disassemble parts, or waste products that are not separated, as exemplified by the ‘waste to energy’ initiative
Monstrous Hybrid
What line of work was Prof. Lindauer in prior to working full-time as Northwood's UG Programs Manager?
Invasive Species (double points if you can name the organization)
Use of daylight, automated appliances, energy efficient appliances, flexible/staggered work schedules, close proximity to public transport, incorporation of native landscaping to reduce water demand, and several others are all features of what sort of structure?
Green Building
This is a certification awarded to for-profit companies that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
Certified B Corporation (Double points if you can name which company obtained and then later declined this certification)
This approach to reporting focuses on understanding the process as a whole, the interaction of elements, and put equal focus on internal structuring of a system as well as the interaction with the wider business environment.
Systemic Approach
This identifies what the actual components within a product are and which of them may be harmful.
Material Health
Who won the 2023 Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role?
Brendan Fraser
Acquiring between 60 and 79 points will earn you this LEED certification level.
Gold