ENV 110 Test 2 Study Guide
Ethic Ecological (Anthropocentric or Ecocentric)
Ecocentric
What philosophical perspective does John Muir have?
Ecocentric.
In an economics for sustainability, which field of economics is most relevant? (Neoclassical economics, Classical economics, Environmental economics, or Ecological economics)
Ecological economics
Habits of Mind
Education
Orr's four challenges of sustainability "inform the discretion of the public"
Education
What is Cirillo's 4th E?
Education (Educating for Sustainability)
What is EFS?
Education for Sustainability
What is ESD?
Education for Sustainable Development
Purpose of U.N. Montreal Protocol
Eliminated the use of CFCs
Orr's four challenges of sustainability Learning how to recognize and resolve divergent problems, which is to say a higher level of spiritual awareness
Empathy
Northwestern University
Enable
Orr's four challenges of sustainability A marked improvement and creativity in the arts of citizenship and governance
Engagement
What is Environmentalism composed of?
Environment and Activism
Which of the following define the three "usual" components of sustainability?
Environment, Economy, Equity (Social)
Leopold, "Thinking Like a Mountain" 4 leaf sustainability
Environmental (lack of wolves affect the ecosystem, more deer means more grazing), Economy (more deer's to hunt), Equity (Each species has a role and should not be over exploited. We should all live in harmony that every living thing is equal), Aesthetics (less nature from over-grazing, less beauty of real nature).
In Bullard's "Environmental Justice in the 21st Century". Which of the following best reflects Bullard's view?
Environmental justice is a response to environmental racism.
Where is the Paneveggio Forest?
Italy
Who is associated with Binaries
Kant & Schiller
The Atmosphere is composed of
Layers and Composition (Nitrogen 78%, Oxygen 21%, and others)
Harmony = _________. Enhance = _________.
Limit; development
According to the Bruntland Report, the strategy for sustainable development involves the need to integrate what two types of considerations in decision making?
Limitations and needs
In Marks, "Cancer Alley" Article: Which state is the largest polluters of toxic waste
Louisiana
What is the translation of "Fatto di Fiemme"
Made in Fiemme
James Hansen's TED talk concluded ...
Mankind is adding greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere, we know that this is causing warming, and we are not doing anything about it. We should do something about it!
What is MRF
Material Recovery Facility
Who directed to construct an apiary atop City Hall
Mayor Daley
SWISS TEAM
Mobility, Energy, Waste Management, Water Management, Biodiversity, and renewable materials. All glass panels
What is anthropocentricism?
Moral values are limited to humans.
GNP & GDP - doesn't include parents, crime and catastrophes count (but are they good?), inequality. It only measures __________.
Movement
In Fenceline: A Company Town Divided (FILM): What was the harmful company called? (not specifically Shell)
NORCO - New Orleans Refining Company
Golden Arrow of Consumption
Nation of consumers. 99% of products are trashed within 6 months.
What is NAFTA
North American free trade agreement
In the videos of Sweatshop — Deadly Fashion, we followed three young people as they went from ________ to visit ________.
Norway ... Cambodia.
Esthetics
One's perceptions of beauty; leads to empathy, values, ethics
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
Our H2OUSE
What is the big idea of Darrin Nordahl's "Public Produce."
Plant edible plants in public spaces for the public good
What is an externality?
Pollution not part of the firm's cost curve
In considering the a) hydrosphere, b) lithosphere, and c) atmosphere, we examined three issues facing those three spheres. What are those issues?
Pollution, Biodiversity, and Climate Change
In Sweatshop: A Deadly Fashion (Film): They mention "we are rich, because they are ________"
Poor
In the Book, "Where are you Wearing?": He says Beauty lies with ________
Poverty
According to Scheffler, what is the "importance of the afterlife" in relation to environmental problems?
Present and future problems, such as climate change, matter to us because other people will continue to exist after our deaths.
Why is it less beneficial to an electric vehicle in NYC
The difference is what happens when you plug in your electric car in New York City. power plants that respond are coal-fired power plants, so relatively dirty power plants. power plants are in locations like Pennsylvania which are also heavily populated, and some of that pollution blow straight back to NYC.
What is discounting (or the discount rate)?
The diminishing value of goods over time
What is the question that links the four leaves of the sustainability lens?
The ethical: Is it right?
What is "cancer alley"?
The petrochemical corridor along a stretch of the Mississippi River.
What are the soundboards of the highest caliber guitars and violins made of?
Spruce resonance wood
What is the Pope Named after?
St. Francais
Which of these gasses is NOT mentioned as a greenhouse gas in the documentary, Horizon Guide to Climate Change? -Methane -Carbon Dioxide -Sulphur Dioxide -Dihydrogen Monoxide
Sulphur Dioxide
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM AND CALHOUN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Surviv (AL) House
What is SE?
Sustainability Education
The standings from the Solar Decathlon 2017, held in Denver Colorado are as follows, which of these team houses was fully enclosed in glass panels?
Swiss Team
Economy
System for exchange of goods and services; careful use of resources (Goods and Services)
We read newspaper articles about Pope Francis visiting and speaking at which place(s)?
The Congress of the United States & The United Nations in New York City.
Which of the following is NOT one of the 4 major criticisms of only using the GDP (gross domestic product) as a measure of economic success? - An environment and social catastrophes add to the GDP - What is monetized does not count - The GDP is based on a normative economics - Inequality
The GDP is based on a normative economics
The Solar Decathlon is a competition run by __________.
The U.S. Department of Energy
What is ecomusicology? (on test)
The study of the connections between music, culture, and nature
The documentary Fenceline focused on . . . .
The tensions between races & The problems of pollution.
Dr. Stephen Holland's research investigates:
The translocation of pollution release to the power generation plant location.
In Marathon for Justice (Film): What happened to the Indians
Their land (Black Hills) was taken illegally when false accusations of gold/valuable natural resources were claimed in the location. Birth of Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) which states no white people are allowed to enter and that the land is reserved
According to Orr, which of the following are among the reasons for why local places matter?
Those local places shape who we are.
According to Broome, "Ethics of Climate Change": What is Temporal Impartiality
Time does not impact it's value
According to Aldo Leopold, what does it mean to "think like a mountain"?
To think ecologically, because mountains are part of the web of life.
Which of these are among the sections of the UNCG Climate Action Plan (CAP)? -Infrastructure Development -Transportation -Garbage Disposal -Water -Educational Curricula
Transportation & Water
Layer of the Atmosphere (closest to farthest)
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
"Whether in a developed country, or in a developing country, poverty and the inability to meet basic needs for food, shelter, and care make some human communities even more vulnerable to environmentally degraded conditions. People faced with exposure and hunger will contribute to environmental degradation to meet basic life needs. People driven by insecurity as to basic living conditions are likely to accept employment opportunities regardless of consequences to human and environmental needs." -Collin & Collin (True/False)
True
According to Grogan, "Cost-Benefit Analysis": Benefits outweigh cost (True/False)
True
According to Stephen Holland: whether or not an electric vehicle generates environmental benefits is critically dependent on local conditions (True/False)
True
Burning fossil fuels releases previously stored carbon into the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2) and/or methane (CH4), greenhouse gases which lead to atmospheric warming. (True/False)
True
Equality doesn't mean Equity (True/False)
True
Hawaii has no place to dump their trash (T/F)
True
In Bullard's "Environmental Justice in the 21st Century". The environmental justice movement is led by a loose alliance of grassroots and national environmental and civil rights leaders who question the foundation of the current environmental protection paradigm. (True/False)
True
In Jones, "The Economic Injustice of Plastic": Disposability is bad for planet & people. (True/False)
True
In SPUR REPORT "Public Harvest": City Farming, Gardening, and Urban Agriculture is of most importance (True/False)
True
Stephen Holland: His research does not consider the combination of electric vehicles and off grid home solar power charging. (True/False)
True
What is Externalized Costs
True cost of making stuff aren't captured in the price.
"zero emission vehicles," electric vehicles are not necessarily emissions-free (True/False)
True, they have zero tailpipe emission but need fossil fuel to charge the battery
Creighton's experience comes from her work at what university (which she discusses a lot in the excerpt we read)?
Tufts University
In the section we read of Where Am I Wearing?, we followed Kelsey Timmerman's attempt to find where his __________ were made.
Underwear
According to Orr, which of the following are un-sustainable:
Unrestrained development
In Marathon for Justice (Film): What was the windmill contaminated with?
Uranium
What is a "Green" University
Use of efficient resources, little to no waste, responsibility of waste generated
According to Cato, which of the following is NOT part of an economics of sustainability? - Following the physical laws of nature - Understanding economies as complex and dynamic systems - Approaching the study of economics normatively - Using neoclassical mathematical models that rely on GD
Using neoclassical mathematical models that rely on GDP.
According to Broome, "Ethics of Climate Change": Which two is a part of Equality (Prioritarianism, Pure discounting, Utilitarianism, Temporal Impartiality )
Utilitarianism & Temporal Impartiality
Which of the following is the best synonym for "normative" (as in normative economics)? (Normal, Positive, Quantitative, Mathematical, or Value)
Value
Who said "Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use for goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption... we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate."
Victor Lebow
What is the difference between climate and weather?
Weather is here and now; climate is average weather in a place
Has the Environment become more politicized?
Yes
In Fenceline: A Company Town Divided (FILM): Eventually, was the Diamond community able to relocate? (Yes/No)
Yes
What is the difference between materials management and waste management?
a difference in mindset whereby waste is seen as having value
Scientist observed that the protective layer of ozone high in the stratosphere was changing such that ____________________, and they met in Montreal in 1987 and agreed to take actions to resolve this issue.
a hole in this layer was fotrming at high latitudes due to the industrial use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
In the section we read of Where Am I Wearing?, Timmerman identifies _____________ & __________________ as possibilities for hope.
a model turned entrepreneur & micro-financing
As defined by Dr. Marianne LeGreco in her class presentation, what is a food desert?
a neighborhood with at least 20% low income residents and no comprehensive grocery stores
What are the benefits of gardening
absorb rainwater, cool down hot urban environment, provide habitat for birds and insects, reduce stress of city sewage, lower energy demand, support biodiversity
Aristotle
achieve good by flourishing / flourish by doing good "kalon" = good AND beautiful
Botzler, "Environmental Ethics" explains Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism. What is Ecocentrism?
all living things have VALUE
According to Broome, "Ethics of Climate Change": What is Utilitarianism
benefits everyone the same value, low discount rate = higher rate in the future.
even if two vehicles with the same emission intensity are driven in the same location, the geographic pattern of their emissions will differ. Where does the damage go to...
damages depend on the location of emissions
In The Habitable Planet (Film): "Rise of Slime" means
decrease biodiversity; removing big fish or adding nutrients
What is planned obsolescence according to Annie Leonard in the video Story of Stuff?
designing a product so either it has a limited functional lifespan or it is perceived to no longer be functional
What is the significance of Wetlands?
ecosystem services; water purification, habitat, storm buffers
In Bullard's "Environmental Justice in the 21st Century". The environmental justice movement has set out clear goals of ....
eliminating unequal enforcement of environmental, civil rights, and public health laws."
F. Schiller
emotional and rational
According to Broome, "Ethics of Climate Change": What is Prioritarianism
gives better life to priority to people less off; high discount rate = low future value because of the faster growth rate
What are Binaries
helpful for understanding
Why is it harmful to drive a gas-powered vehicle in Los Angeles
lot of people, horrible air shed, surrounded by mountains, so that pollution all gets trapped in Los Angeles and causes a lot of harm
What is Ecofeminism
male dominance is what drives environmental problems
Production
mix toxic chemicals with natural resources to make toxic contaminated products. Toxin In Toxin Out.
libraries, city halls, and police and fire stations
municipal buildings
streets and sidewalks, parks, squares and plazas, parking lots
municipality
Extraction
natural resource exploitation
what is a near-Zero Net Energy house
needs zero extra energy than natural
The Navy dumps their trash into the _____.
open sea
Impacts of CFC ....
ozone depletion that is helping keeping UV rays out of earth
I. Kant
pleasure or displeasure
What is Closed Loops and an example
refers to no waste and Nature is an example. Humans have concentrated wastes
What are the Problems in Warren County
soil contamination, black community, poor, Environmental Racism
Atmospheric Ozone (O3) filters out ...
solar UV radiation
What are game changing solutions according to Annie Leonard in the video Story of Stuff?
solutions to sustainability problems that address the core problem rather than just symptoms
According to Jones, "The root of this problem, in my view, is the idea of disposability itself. ... In order to trash ______, you have to trash ______." (Fill)
the planet, people
What is the greenhouse effect?
the storage and re-transmission of heat in the atmosphere via gasses like water vapor, CO2 and CH4
According to the Sengupta and Yardley article, what does Pope Francis say that we need to choose over the "boundless thirst for power and material prosperity" that currently characterizes our world?
we need to choose environmental justice
What are Estuaries?
where salt and fresh water MEET; Biodiversity, habitat for commercial fishing, storm buffer, erosion protection, purification
Environment
Everything; nature+humans; surroundings that affect growth (Humans and Surroundings)
Orr's four challenges of sustainability "more accurate models, metaphors, and measures to describe the human enterprise relative to the biosphere"
Explanation
Ethics + Aesthetics =
Fairness
J. Dewey
Fairness = ethics + aesthetics Good Life = moral + beautiful Therefore: good life involves fairness
What does "equity" mean in the context of sustainability?
Fairness and justice (Also synonyms of equity)
Equity
Fairness or justice in the way people are treated
A sweatshop is a place where sweatpants and sweatshirts are made and sold. (True/False)
False
Economics is a completely objective field that relies purely on mathematics and the determination of facts. (True/False)
False
In the film, Horizon Guide to Climate Change, we learn that climate change was a central part of the first Earth Day celebration on April 22, 1970. (True/False)
False
Plastic pollution does not impact the ocean because we don't use plastic at sea; plastic pollution is a land-based problem that can be solved through recycling. (True/False)
False
According to Aldo Leopold, what is a "land ethic"?
Human ethics should be enlarged to consider people and the land
Environmental ethics is a field of inquiry concerned with evaluating the ethical responsibilities _________ have for the __________ world. (Fill)
Humans; Natural
Leopold, "Thinking Like a Mountain" Key Log Quote
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."
UNCG's definition of Sustainability
"Academics, Operations, and Outreach are conducted with careful attention to the enduring interconnectedness of social equity, the environment, the economy, and aesthetics."
Planned Obsolescence
"Designed for the dump". Make stuff to be useless asap
Scheffler says, "I believe in life after death." What does he mean by that?
"I believe ... that other people will continue to live after I myself have died."
Leopold, "Thinking Like a Mountain" Thinking like a Mountain Quote...
"Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf."
Orr, "All Sustainability is Local" motto
"Think globally and act locally"
According to Orr, "The overall challenge of sustainability is to ... (definition)
"avoid crossing irreversible thresholds that damage the life systems of Earth while creating long-term economic, political, and moral arrangements that secure the well-being of current and future generations."
Distribution
"selling all this toxic-contaminated junk as quickly as possible"
Ecomusicology Defined by Allen and Dave
"the coming together of music/sound studies with environmental/ecological studies & sciences"
Ecomusicology Defined by Allen
"the study of music, culture, & nature in all the complexities of those terms"
Not all appliances uses the same amount of energy. The ones producing heat needs more energy (True/False)
(True)
What is cost-benefit analysis?
- Balancing positives and negatives - Decision making aid
According to Creighton, what are some specific examples of how universities negatively affect the environment?
- Energy use - Water consumption - Solid waste production - Material purchasing
Katherine Baxter's 4 Leaf Sustainability
- Environment: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch impact marine species and littering harms birds and other land animals that get a hold of the waste. - Equity: Disposable Products equals Disposable People. - Economy: producers should be responsible of any products they make. - Aesthetics: Ditching disposability to protect the beauty of our planet and protect any living species
In Cato, "Economics for Sustainability": What are the 5 types of Capital
- Financial - Human - Manufactured - Social - Natural
Dr. Marianne LeGreco - 4 Leaves of Sustainability Social Equity
- Food Distribution - Access to Food - Stop Gaps to Hunger & Food insecurity So many people do not have access to food (food insecurity) and we need to work towards helping people in need of this right.
Dr. Marianne LeGreco - 4 Leaves of Sustainability Aesthetics
- Food is Tasty! - Both Mundane and Artistic - Beauty in what and how we eat - Landscape - Ethical consequences Sometimes the taste/ aesthetics don't taste good.
Role of Martin Luther King Jr.
- He went to Memphis to support striking garbage workers (environmental & economic issues) - He strove for JUSTICE and EQUITY
What are the 3 Spheres?
- Hydrosphere (Water) - Lithosphere (Rock/Land) - Atmosphere (Gas/Air)
Plastic pollution can be found ...
- In Beer - In Washing Machine Waste Water - Human Teeth
UNCG Climate Action Plan (CAP)
- Infrastructure - Transportation - Materials Management - Water - Academics and Outreach
In their article "Education for Sustainability," Cirillo et al. discuss which of the following?
- Japan's LEAF. - Key components of EFS. - An EFS framework from Shelburne Farms. - The USPESD.
Disposal
- Landfills and Incinerations - burning garbage that had toxins create new toxins after burned and goes into the air. -
Dr. Marianne LeGreco - 4 Leaves of Sustainability Economy
- Managing Natural Resources - Costs of Production - Cost of Food to Consumers - Disposal & Waste more expensive to produce food because it takes more money to grow various products. Takes money to make sure the product looks good and taste good/safe
Parts of Atmosphere
- Oxygen (life), Nitrogen (food), thin layer - Weather & Climate
The film Marathon for Justice profiled which of the following?
- People who want to breathe air in Philadelphia, PA. - people who want to drink water in Thoreau, NM - people who rely on the land in the Dakotas.
What is Environmental Ethics
- Preservation and Protection, Conservation and Consumption. - Protect ecosystems from degradation or overuse
What does the forest provide?
- Provide oxygen - Clean and Store Water - Provide food and materials
Orr, "All Sustainability is Local" - 5 reasons why Local places matter
- Shape our birth and upbringing - Environmentalism grew by saving specific places - Worldwide problems are NOT necessarily global - Global can be too abstract - Global economy is not ecologically sustainable, so we need to work at local levels
Dr. Marianne LeGreco - 4 Leaves of Sustainability Environment
- Soil - Air - Bees - Fertilizer - Pest Control plants uses the soil. We need drinkable water. We can't grow food without bees because they pollinate our flowers. Pest control - woodpecker story. Can devastate gardens where there is no time to replant because of temperature and season.
Parts of Lithosphere
- Soil, property, identity, forest - humans: footprint, agriculture, settlement, population
According to Creighton, "Greening the Ivory Tower" 5 essential ingredients to success....
- Understanding decisions and audience - commitment - committees - leaders - basics of environmental protection
Low Diversity Leads to...
- VULNERABLE TO COLLAPSE - loss of habitat & agriculture diversity - biodiversity decline rate: 30-50%, 2 species annually.
According to Stephen Holland: County-level environmental benefit: Eastern are......
- benefit is large and negative - primarily relies more heavily on coal and natural gas
According to Stephen Holland: County-level environmental benefit: Western are......
- benefit is large and positive - primarily a mix of hydro, nuclear, and natural gas.
Biodiversity involves ....
- the range of ecosystems. - the variety of life in ecosystems. - humans and non-human organisms. - the genetic diversity within species
At the conclusion of the article, "The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis," Lynn White proposes that we ...
.. adopt St. Francis as a patron saint.
According to Pope Francis, destroying the environment is ...
... a sin
The UNCG Green Fund is ...
... a student fee to support sustainability initiatives on campus. $2.22
In The Habitable Planet (Film): Tropical rainforests are considered ...
... the "lungs of the planet."
Richmond, "Ecology" Ecology is a branch of science that studies ...
... the ways in which plants and animals interact with one another and with their surroundings.
According to Broome, "Ethics of Climate Change": What is Pure Discounting
Importance to the people of now rather than the future
Which of the following are included among Orr's "four challenges"?
Improved education
Where is the Tongass National Forest?
Alaska
Ethic Philosophical (Anthropocentric or Ecocentric)
Anthropocentric
In Horizon Guide to Climate Change (Film) When is Earth Day?
April 22, 1970
Who is associated with Synthesis
Aristotle & Dewey
In Fenceline: A Company Town Divided (FILM): What were some symptoms
Asthma, cancer, liver cancer, sarcoidosis, allergies, and many more
Objective
Based on Facts
Subjective
Based on Feelings or Opinions
Why do we consider the environment in relation to sustainability?
Because all life depends on it
Eric Henry of TSDesigns says that we have a broken apparel system. Why?
Because too much is made overseas when it used to be made here.
The article by Lynn White is entitled "The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis" and it is published in the journal Science, but the primary subject matter is what?
Belief systems
Who purchased the properties from the city for $4.2 million to save 113 garden sites
Bette Midler
In the study of aesthetics, some thinkers make _____________ , such as pleasure/displeasure or emotional/rational, which are helpful for understanding. Other thinkers provide more complex explanations involving _____________ , such as good+beautiful or ethics+aesthetics. (Fill)
Binary; Synthesis
B.F.R.s
Brominated Flame Retardants - contains neurotoxin
"meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs"
Brundtland, 1987
TEAM DAYTONA BEACH
Building, Efficient, Affordable, Comfortable Homes (BEACH)
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - ST. LOUIS
CRETE HOUSE
In Fenceline: A Company Town Divided (FILM): What was the reason Maggie mentioned in why the community cannot move somewhere safer.
Can't leave until they are able to relocate to a safer location without falling into debt, because the community is poor.
In Darrin Nordahl - "Public Space, Public Officials, Public Policy": What is the significance of Nathan Murray
City Hall, Public Space, Farming - he started out growing them in his cubicle then expanded to outside the office where all employees have easy access to help maintain it. Later a parking lot nearby became a garden but not successful since people do not want to go out of their way to go maintain it.
courthouses, universities, and grade schools
Civic institutions
Groups from _____________ compete in the Solar Decathlon.
Colleges and Universities
startling decline in the honey- bee population is referred to as
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
Perceived Obsolescence
Convinces us to throw away stuff that is still perfectly useful
Parts of Hydrosphere
Cycle, wetlands, estuaries, watersheds
Who interviewed Darrin Nordahl on his book "Public Produce"
Diabe Rehm
In Fenceline: A Company Town Divided (FILM): Maggie fights for the ____________ community
Diamond
Example of a Super toxin
Dioxin (Most toxic man-made substance and it's main source is incineration)
In Bullard's "Environmental Justice in the 21st Century". According to Bullard, what is environmental racism (or environmental discrimination)?
Disparate treatment of a group or community based on race, class, or some other characteristic.
Cause of huge loss of life and diversity
Human Demands
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Smart Innovative Living Oasis (SILO)
In Trant et al., "Intertidal Resource": The closer trees are to the Midden they are ___________________________________.
High in calcium and phosphorous
_____ percent of damages from gasoline vehicles are transported to other states.
18
Where is UNCG on the 2017 Sierra Club Cool Schools list?
78th
more than _____ percent of damages from air pollution emissions (not greenhouse gases) from driving an electric car in one state are exported to other states.
90
What is pernambuco?
A Brazilian wood for violin bows.
Which of the following was John Muir working to protect?
A canyon in the Sierra Nevadas. (The Hetch Hetchy Valley)
How did pollution come to correlate with race between Baton Rouge and New Orleans?
A complex history of transportation, natural resources, historical taxation patterns, compliant state government, and plantations and the end of slavery.
According to Eric Henry: TED Talk: Who is Ronney
A cotton farmer in the USA for Sustainability
According to the "Bruntland Report," sustainable development is ...
A process of change
What is Material Economy made of
A system from Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption, and Disposal.
On top of the Chain what is most toxic?
Human Breast Milk
Electric vehicles produce zero tailpipe emissions, but unlike gasoline cars, electric cars produce emissions when fossil fuels are burned for energy to move the vehicle. According to Stephen Holland, the generation of electricity at power plants must be considered when evaluating the cleanliness of electric vehicles. The area around and downwind from powerplants is negatively impacted by an increase in energy production. To know if electric vehicles are better, you must factor in the environmental cost of running fossil fuel based how the electric grid might generate exhaust pollution. Because electric grids vary regionally in their cleanliness, in some areas it makes more environmental sense to use gas vehicles and in other areas it makes more sense to use electric vehicles. This means that electric vehicles produce a net benefit to the environment in North Dakota, but not in Los Angeles. (True/False)
False, Electric vehicles produce a net benefit to the environment in LA than in ND.
In The Habitable Planet (Film): Which of the following threaten(s) tropical rainforests?
Fragmentation & Roads
What Natural Resources does Cancer Alley have
Fresh Water, Salt & Sulfur, Natural Gas & Petroleum, Deep Water, Cheap electricity
Gasoline cars store potential energy in the ___________ and then release emissions as fuel is burned concurrent to driving. Electric cars store electricity in __________. Emissions occur prior to driving
Gas Tanks; Batteries
Who said "Urban agriculture is about far more than growing vegetables on an empty lot. It's about revitalizing and transforming unused public spaces, connecting city residents with their neighborhoods in a new way and promoting healthier eating and living for everyone."
Gavin Newsom
In the introduction of Where Am I Wearing?, author Kelsey Timmerman's explains that he is addressing the issue of ________ by exploring _________.
Globalization ... where his clothes are made
Moral + Beautiful =
Good Life
Corporations are bigger than the ______.
Government
The film Musicwood involved a cast of characters that included:
Greenpeace, The Haida Nation, Taylor Guitars
What is HPI
Happy Planet Index = (satisfaction x expectancy)/footprint
What role has Warren County, NC, had in the history of sustainability?
It is where the environmental justice movement was born.
In Bullard's "Environmental Justice in the 21st Century". The "People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit" (1991) promoted which of the following?
Principles of environmental justice.
According to Broome, "Ethics of Climate Change": Which two is a part of Equity (Prioritarianism, Pure discounting, Utilitarianism, Temporal Impartiality )
Prioritarianism & Pure discounting
Hospitals, business parks, churches, corporate plazas, retail and commercial parking lots
Privately owned
Which of the following is the best synonym for "normative" (as in normative economics)?
Qualitative
What is the main driver of Climate change
Release of Energy from Fossil Fuels (non-renewable)
High Diversity Leads to...
Resilience
University of Maryland
Resilience, Adaptive, Climate, Technology (REACT)
According to Jones (TED Talk), biomimicry is ...
Respecting the wisdom of all creatures
Ethics
Rules of behavior for what is morally good/right and bad/wrong (Good and Bad Behaviors)
According to Cirillo et al., : - EFS is transformative & Reformist - EDS is Reformist and Transformative - SE is Reformist - EFSand EDS are Transformative
SE is Reformist EFS & EDS are Transformative
Netherlands: HU University of Applied Science Utrecht
SELFICIENT HOUSE
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
SINATRA
The SPUR public harvest report is set in _________.
San Francisco, CA
Plastic is an issue even at the _______ and ________. (Fill)
Sea; Land
What was the tree cutting company called in Alaska
Sealaska
The film Fenceline involved a cast of characters and issues that included:
Shell Oil, Margie Richard, Cancer Alley, social justice, environmental pollution
Should MN and ND use electric vehicles?
They can, but it's more ideal to drive a gas-powered vehicle. electric vehicles are basically a wash because there aren't a lot of people there and it's relatively unpolluted already. Whereas, the power plant is located in Chicago, a population dense city.
