Write a report describing the Air Quality and Smoke Management resources available to land management agencies in your state, tribe, or country.
Outline why states/tribes have achieved (or not) their current level of information on air quality and smoke management.
Explain the negative impact climate change will have on the global marine environment and biodiversity in our oceans.
How do lithium batteries work, and what materials are involved?
How do we, currently, get most of these materials? What problems do these methods (for procuring these materials) face (e.g., do we have enough; environmental concerns;
social concerns)?
How are we trying to move away from mining, and how are we improving that process?
What are some of the obstacles to that process?
How has your understanding of electric vehicle (EV) batteries or all “green” battery solutions changed? Have you ever thought about where the materials for cars, cell phones, windmills, solar panels. . . comes from and at what cost?
What did you learn about the environmental and social implications of switching to greener energy sources. . .or at least lithium batteries? How does this make you feel about the use of electric cars, cell phones, technology in general. . . either in the big-picture or just your own use?
Should we be trying to extract/recycle these materials more in the United States?
Should we be requiring others to meet our environmental and societal standards?
address concerns related to these materials and processes?
e) Did you learn anything else that surprised or impressed you?
Imagine a future (probably a long time from now) in which human beings have achieved environmental sustainability on a global scale. That means that we as a species have figured out how to maintain a lifestyle that can go on indefinitely.
Humans will exist in harmony with their environment, not needing more resources than can naturally be replenished. What would such a world be like? How might we get there from here?
Describe how the human relationship to nature will be different from what it is at present.
Examine how humans will cope differently with the ways that natural phenomena like hurricanes affect lives.
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Describe what Earth’s biodiversity and ecosystems will look like in a sustainable future.
Explain what humans have done differently to enable biodiversity and ecosystems to function sustainably.
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Examine how agricultural production will be different in a sustainable future.
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Differentiate between how humans will manage water resources (fresh water and ocean) in the sustainable future compared to how it is done now.
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Examine how humans will meet their energy needs in the future in a way that will enable the maintenance of a sustainable, habitable atmosphere and climate.
Indicate the changes that humans have made that are enabling them to maintain a healthy atmosphere and climate for all.
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Describe how waste management will be different in a sustainable future.
Indicate the changes that have been made to how humans think about and treat what is currently called “waste.”
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Summarize some of the major social, economic, political, and ecological choices and tradeoffs that will need to be overcome for this sustainable future to arrive. What are some of the major issues and challenges humans will have to face in order to achieve sustainability on a global scale?
Description for the paper:
Review Chapters 5 and 6 in your course textbook.
In the template, you will
Define the term thoroughly, in your own words.
Explain the importance of the term using evidence.
Discuss how the term affects living things and the physical world.
Suggest two specific actions that can be taken to promote environmental sustainability in relation to the term.
Explain exactly how those actions will aid in safeguarding our environment in relation to your chosen term.
Provide detailed examples to support your ideas.
Unit 4 – Individual Project
Examine renewable and nonrenewable energy resources for supplying electricity. The goal is to consider the high demand for energy and the impact of various energy sources on human health and the environment. Which energy sources are the best options?
Summarize what is currently known about the impact of human development on groundwater sustainability. Use the background information provided in the Unit 1 Lab: Groundwater Sustainability.
El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific Ocean [also called El Niño-La Niña Cycles] is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific.
El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is perhaps the most important ocean-atmosphere interaction phenomenon to cause cyclic global climate variability.
Go online and find a recent (published within the last 2 years) article from a reputable source regarding ENSO. submit a one page (approximately 250 word) summary of the article.
What did you find most interesting? What did you already know? What did you learn? Was there anything that surprised you in the article.
Be sure to include the link of the article you have used in your paper.
