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Framework
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Topic outline
Click the linked topics below for additional
resources
| Human
Systems |
| 1. Human well-being and environmental
quality |
a. Interdependence
b. Sustainability |
| 2. Consumption and natural resources |
a. Population -
world population,
exponential growth,
birth/death rate,
age
structure, migration,
historical patterns |
| 3. Effects of natural resource
consumption |
a. Social development - affluence,
health,
culture, economic growth
b. Resource distribution - food/water
distribution, nourishment, wealth gap
c. Waste - reduce, reuse,
recycle, refuse;
toxic waste; pollution
d. Cultural diversity threats
e. Variability - socioeconomic status, race,
culture, ethnicity, etc. |
| 4. Addressing effects |
a. Education -
empowerment of women,
needs hierarchy
b. Political action -
laws,
lobbying,
environmental justice
c. Ecomanagement - trail building,
recycling,
ecosystem restoration
d. Legal action - lawsuits, law enforcement
e. Lifestyle choices - ecological footprint,
consumer choices
f. Community involvement -
service learning,
ecomunicipalities |
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RESOURCES
| Addressing effects - Lifestyle choices - ecological
footprint |
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The Ecological Footprint: Accounting for a Small
Planet (DVD)
Source: Global
Footprint Network and Bullfrog Films
DVD: $7.00 -
$149.00 depending on preview, rent, or purchase from
Bullfrog Films
Dr. Mathis Wackernagel introduces the
Ecological Footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures
human demand on the Earth. In just thirty minutes, the film
paints a picture of our current global situation: for the first
time, humanity is in "ecological overshoot" with annual demand
on resources exceeding what Earth can regenerate each year. |
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Ecological Footprint Calculator (web site)
Source: Redefining Progress
http://www.myfootprint.org/en/
A 27 question quiz that allows users to estimate the amount of
land and ocean required to sustain their consumptive and waste
generating lifestyle. |
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Ecological Footprint
Calculator (web site)
Source: Royal Saskatchewan
Museum
Web site
This Canadian footprint calculator provides
background on the concept of ecological footprint and compares
the calculated print to that of other nation's averages. |
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Ecological Impact & Food (activity)
Source: Anita
Sundstrom, Oregon School District
Activity
(MS Word)
This webquest asks students to consider their
ecological impact by first understanding ecological footprints
and then considering a specific example based on food selection. |
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Global Footprint Network (web site)
Source: Global Footprint Network
Web site
Visit this web site to learn the science behind
global footprint accounting. |
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Labor Day Dinner (activity)
Source:
Charlie Frisk,
Luxemburg-Casco School District
Activity (MS Word)
Activity (PDF)
The "Labor Day Dinner" activity is
designed to illustrate the concept of Ecological Footprint. The
students are divided into groups to analyze the impact on the
environment of the Labor Day dinner of the family they have
chosen. They then make a presentation in front of the class in
which they explain the impacts that their particular family
would have on the environment. The activity can be modified for
the particular community in which your school is based. |
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Mapping the Impact (activity)
Source: Facing the Future
Web site (free download)
Students create a web diagram to
illustrate environmental, social, and economic impacts
associated with everyday items. This activity expands the
concept of “ecological footprint” to consider impacts of a given
lifestyle on people and societies. Students develop ideas to
reduce the ecological footprint and associated impacts related
to an everyday item. |
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