Sustainability
The triple bottom line of sustainability
What is social, economic, and environmental sustainability?
The change in population size over time
What is population growth rate?
is an outline of how a
company plans to make money with its
product and customer base in a specific
market
What is sustainability?
The ability of the earth’s various natural systems and human cultural systems and economies to survive and adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely.”
is the use of land to meet changing human needs (agriculture, forestry, conservation), while ensuring long-term socioeconomic and ecological functions of the land
What is sustainable land management
The number of UN SDGs to address societal problems
What is the UN 17 sustainable development goals?
The migration of people into a population
What is immigration?
The process of incorporating green
business practices into
organizational operating models
and throughout supply chains.
What is business sustainability?
Percentage of water on earths surface
What is 71%
Food Insecurity is defined in 4 ways
Availability, accessibility, distribution and utilization
The imperfect and sometimes problematic responses that we must choose between when addressing a complex problem?
What is tradeoffs?
The amount of carbon released to the atmosphere by a person, company, nation or activity?
What is carbon footprint?
Components of a business model
Value proposition, Revenue stream, target market, competitive advantage
Name three sectors that have the highest use of water
Agriculture, Industry and domestic
What is green revolution
A plant-breeding program that was adopted to increase crop yields and paved the way for mechanized, large scale agriculture
Energy that comes from an infinitely available or easily replenished source
what is renewable energy?
A city designed to improve environmental quality and social equity while reducing its overall environmental impact?
What is green city?
What UN SDG is focused specifically on water
SDG 6
Mention two sustainable farming practices
Organic farming, Agroecology, monoculture
The ability to look holistically at the interactions connected with a social problem
what is systems thinking?
Construction and operational designs that promote resource energy efficiency and provide better environment for occupants
What is a green building?
Mention three ways to address water scarcity
Dams, Desalination, Storm water management, waste water treatment
What are the tradeoffs of sustainable agriculture