Sustainability Online Classroom

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Requirement #1: Describe the meaning of Sustainability in your own words. Explain the importance of sustainability to society and how you can contribute to fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations. (This requirement was completed during the online class. No other work is required.)

Requirement #2A: WATER : Evaluate your household water usage. If available, review water bills from the past year and evaluate the seasonal changes in water use. Identify 3 ways to help reduce water consumption.

Requirement #2A : List 3 ways water usage could change due to the season. List the 3 ways below.

Requirement #2A : Choose three ways to help reduce consumption. List the 3 ways below.

Requirement #3A : FOOD : Explore the sustainability of different types of plant-based, animal-based and aquaculture food. Identify where four different foods (such as milk, eggs, tuna fish, avocados, or ketchup) come from and how they are processed and transported from the source to you.

Requirement #3A : Tell me where Food #1 comes from, how it is processed and how it is transported from the source to you.

Requirement #3A: Tell me where Food #2 comes from, how it is processed and how it is transported from the source to you.

Requirement #3A : Tell me where Food #3 comes from, how it is processed and how it is transported from the source to you.

Requirement #3A : Tell me where Food #4 comes from, how it is processed and how it is transported from the source to you.

Requirement #3B : Tell me Factor #4 and how it influences the sustainability of worldwide food supplies.

Requirement #3B : What are three ways individuals, families, or your community can create their own food sources?

Requirement #3C: Discuss your baseline, your plan, and your results of reducing your household food waste in a sustainable manner.

Requirement #4B: Identify one unsustainable practice in your community and develop a written plan to fix it.

Requirement #4A : Upload a picture or a file of your Sustainable Community sketch here.

Requirement #4B: What unsustainable practice does your community experience?

Requirement #4B: Put your PLAN to fix your community's unsustainable practice below.

Requirement #4C: Five sustainability factors.

Requirement #4C : How would you rate your home's sustainability as against these above factors?

Requirement #5C: List five ways you and your family could reduce energy consumption in your home, such as adjusting the thermostat, adjusting the window shades, opening windows, reducing hot water temperatures, and minimizing water consumption. Identify the benefits and risk of each idea and implement if possible.

Requirement #5A : Common Energy Source #1: Describe how the production and consumption affects sustainability.

Requirement #5A : Common Energy Source #2: Describe how the production and consumption affects sustainability.

Requirement #5A : Common Energy Source #3: Describe how the production and consumption affects sustainability.

Requirement #5B : Ways your family consumes energy:

Requirement #5B : Find one Home-related energy use and list three ways to help reduce consumption, reduce your carbon footprint, and be a better steward of this resource.

Requirement #5B : Find one Transportation-related energy use and list three ways to help reduce consumption, reduce your carbon footprint, and be a better steward of this resource.

Requirement #5C : First way you and your family could reduce energy consumption in your home. Identify the benefits and risk of this idea and implement if possible.

Requirement #5C : Second way you and your family could reduce energy consumption in your home. Identify the benefits and risk of this idea and implement if possible.

Requirement #5C : Third way you and your family could reduce energy consumption in your home. Identify the benefits and risk of this idea and implement if possible.

Requirement #5C : Fourth way you and your family could reduce energy consumption in your home. Identify the benefits and risk of this idea and implement if possible.

Requirement #5C : Fifth way you and your family could reduce energy consumption in your home. Identify the benefits and risk of this idea and implement if possible.

Requirement #6B: STUFF : List five ways having too much “stuff” affects you, your family, and our community, AND the world. For each of the five ways, consider the following aspects: financial impact, time spent, maintenance, health, storage, and waste generation. Identify practices that can be used to avoid accumulating too much “stuff”.

Requirement #6A : Upload your list here.

Requirement #6A : What excess stuff did you find you no longer needed? Did you Donate, Re-Purpose, or Recycle any items? If so, please explain.

Requirement #6B : Five ways that having too much "stuff" affects you, your family, your community, and our world.

Requirement #6B : What financial impact can this have (having too much stuff)?

Requirement #6B : How can this use up your time (having too much stuff)?

Requirement #6B : How could having too much stuff affect one's health?

Requirement #6B : What problems could happen relating to storage of STUFF and maintaining the STUFF?

Requirement #6B : How could this affect waste generation (having too much stuff)?

Requirement #6B : What are some practices that can be used to avoid accumulating too much "stuff"? (List at least 3 practices).

Requirement #6C : What is the Trash Vortex and how was it formed?

Requirement #6C : Explain the number system for plastic recyclables and tell me which plastics are more commonly recycled.

Requirement #6C : Identify the average lifespan of one electronic in your household. Can it be recycled in whole or in part?

Requirement #7A : The United Nations lists 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These include Zero Hunger, Clean Water and Sanitation, Affordable and Clean Energy, Sustainable Cities and Community, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Action, Life Below Water, and Life on Land. Pick one of these eight and summarize the goal and its current and future impact on you, your family, community, and the world.

What Sustainable Development Goal did you choose?

Requirement #7A: What is the goal?

Requirement #7A: What is the current and future impact this could have on you, your family, your community, and the world

#7E : Explain the term species (plant or animal) decline. Share the human activities that contribute to species decline, what can be done to reverse the decline, and its impact on a sustainable environment.

#7F : Find a world map that shows the pattern of temperature change for a period of at least 100 years. Identify three factors that scientists believe affect the global weather and temperature. Discuss how climate change impacts sustainability of food, water, or other resources.

Requirement #7F : Upload your world map here.

Requirement #8C: On a camp out or other outdoor Scouting activity that you attend, make notes on the sustainability practices you and your fellow Scouts practice. Observe transportation, forestry, soil conservation, water resources, habitat, buildings, campsites, and sanitation. Share what you observed and learned with your counselor. (PRE-WORK only)

Requirement #8: What did you observe about the transportation, forestry, soil conservation, water resources, habitat, buildings, campsites, and sanitation? Share what you observed. **Please be detailed. 1-2 sentence answers will not be accepted.**

Requirement #8B: Discuss with your counselor how living by the Scout Oath, Scout Law, and Outdoor Code in your daily life helps promote sustainability. (This requirement is completed during the online class. No other work is required.)

Requirement #8C: Identify 5 behavioral changes that you and your family can make to improve sustainability of your household. Share and discuss. (This requirement is completed during the online class. No other work is required.)

Requirement #9: Learn about career opportunities in the sustainability field. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required. Discuss what you have learned with your counselor and explain why this career might interest you.

Requirement #9 : What did you learn about career opportunities in the sustainability field?

Requirement #9 : Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required.

Requirement #9 : Discuss why this career might be of interest to you.

Do you have any questions? Comments? Concerns?