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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 - Community involvement |
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Earth Day Activities
Source: Joyce
Johnson: Reedsburg School District
Reedsburg Area High School mobilizes all students to
participate in community based environmental activities on the
Friday closest to Earth Day. Teachers work in groups of 2-3
(sometimes more) to organize activities such as storm drain
stenciling, work at the International Crane Foundation, clean up
at the school forest, river clean up, bike trail clean-up, lawn
raking for the elderly etc. Students are transported or walk to
their activities. This is part of the community service
requirement for graduation. |
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Going to Green (video)
Source: PBS
DVD: $39.95 from
PBS Educational Media
Borrow from
WCEE EE Resources Library
Going to Green is a five disk
series that deals with the restoration of America's urban
landscape through the creation of sustainable neighborhood
ecosystems. Each chapter is devoted to a specific section and is
accompanied by a lesson with service learning extensions. Disk
Five: Public Policy and Green Collar Opportunities features a 25
minute public policy and community action segment that explains
how model ordinances can be put into place to assist
municipalities in becoming more sustainable, and the role that
students, teachers, and citizen activists can play in that
process. |
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