Solid waste
This strategy involves burning waste to generate energy but can lead to air pollution.
What is incineration?
This type of resource can be replaced naturally and can be used indefinitely if managed properly.
What are renewables?
These elements are essential for the production of electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies but are primarily sourced from one country.
What are rare earth elements (REEs)?
Like Italy, this country is largely energy dependent and imports most of its electricity.
What is Switzerland?
This Asian country faces many challenges in producing enough electricity, due partly to its mountainous terrain, and today, meets much of its energy demands through burning biofuel.
Nepal
This type of waste includes food scraps, packaging, and toxic materials like batteries.
What is household waste?
This term refers to the stock of natural resources available on Earth, including water, air, and biodiversity.
These countries have the highest per capita consumption of energy, primarily due to industrial activities.
This city in Italy exports 100% of its waste to The Netherlands for incineration.
What is Rome?
Natural capital in this country is worth almost £200 billion and supports approximately 240,000 jobs.
What is Scotland?
This type of strategy aims to restore the natural environment to its original condition after damage has occurred.
What are restorative strategies?
These ecosystem services are essential for life, including soil formation and nutrient cycling, but do not yield direct benefits to humans.
Supporting services
This energy source is known for having the lowest carbon footprint among renewable options.
What is wind?
The UK exports waste paper to this country, where it is recycled to meet growing demand.
What is India?
This gas, produced from decomposing food in landfills, is 21 times more effective as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
What is methane?
This region generates the least amount of solid waste globally.
What is the Middle East and North Africa?
This "hunger hotspot" has nearly half its population facing food insecurity due to various socio-economic factors.
What is Haiti?
This form of nonrenewable energy actually generated less carbon than does wind.
What is nuclear?
In this country, a national park provides cultural services because of its thousand-year-old history of involvement in the political system.
What is Iceland?
In Catalonia, Spain, this financial strategy makes landfill and incineration more expensive than recycling.
What are charges for using landfill and incineration?
This refers to the time required for 50% of a substance to break down or be eliminated naturally.
What is half-life?
This rock in Australia is considered to be one of the first places of creation for indigenous Australian, an example of cultural services provided by our environment.
Uluru
This country uses 95% HEP electricity
This culture's egalitarian/ecocentric worldview involves ritually "mocking the meat."
Who are the Dobe !Kung?
Renewables can further be divided into two categories of energy production: flow and this.
Continuous (like wind power, which are available throughout the year).