csus 200
Four-fifths of one-use water bottles in Michigan are recycled.
False
Which state has the highest deposit charge on cans/bottles?
MIchigan
In the Soda Pop Calorimeter demonstration the nut's mass being converted to smoke, ash and CO2 is an example of
1st law of thermodynamics
In the Soda Pop Calorimeter demonstration the energy from the nut becoming less concentrated and able to do work is an example of
2nd law of thermodynamics
How much more efficient is a 900 lumen CFL bulb that is 15 watts equivalent than a 750 lumen 60 watt incandescent bulb?
380
How much more efficient is a 800 lumen LED bulb that is 10 watt equivalent than a 750 lumen 60 watt incandescent bulb?
640
When choosing a light bulb which of the following factors should be considered?
Amount of lumens b) Watt equivalent c) Bulb life d) Cost per bulb
Michigan's bottle bill law is an example of what type of Extended Producer Responsibility?
Deposit-refund
There is inequality along race and class lines in access to bicycle-friendly streets — and to bicycles themselves for example:
Poor urban neighborhoods are less likely than wealthier areas nearby to have any bicycle lanes or other infrastructure. Bike share programs rarely have installed stations in low-income neighborhoods
Strategies for confronting consumerism suggested by New Dream include:
Sharing 'stuff' and/or lending it. Giving stuff away. Sell your 'stuff' in a garage sale.
Michael Sandel points out that we live in a time when almost everything can be bought and sold. Some examples include:
Someone to stand in line overnight on Capitol Hill to hold a place for a lobbyist who wants to attend a congressional hearing. The right to shoot an endangered black rhino. Access to the carpool lane while driving solo. A prison-cell upgrade.
Complete Streets are
Streets designed and operated to enable safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities.
Concerns about increasing traffic congestion in cities, which reached a climax after World War II, led to
a mass expansion of national road systems
Moon Ministries was started with seed money from
a kickstarter campaign
Which type of light bulb is the most energy efficient?
ambient led
Developing an EcoMind approach, according to Lappé, means adopting a mindset that is centered on which of the following (check all that are correct):
continous change, co creation
Specifying that a container must be compostable is an example of what type of Extended Producer Responsibility?
design criteria
In order for us to decide where the market belongs, and where it should be kept at a distance, we have to decide how to value the goods in question—health, education, family life, nature, art, civic duties, and so on. These are moral and political questions, not merely economic ones. To resolve them, we have to
debate the moral meaning of these goods, and the proper way of valuing them.
According to Lukas, corporations have been empowered to accumulated enormous profits and use the environment as a dump because of which of the following:
deregulation
Requiring paper to consist of at least 30% recycled materials is an example of what type of Extended Producer Responsibility?
design criteria
Allocating prime shelf space to environmentally friendly products is an example of what type of Extended Producer Responsibility?
eco labeling
British Columbia charging an additional fee above purchase price on paint is an example of what type of Extended Producer Responsibility?
eco taxes
Charging an additional fee (above purchase price and sales tax) for purchasing a new car battery is an example of what type of Extended Producer Responsibility?
eco taxes
Robert Kennedy pointed out that our Gross Domestic Product counts as positive the following items:
equipment for police broadcasting of TV shows glorifying violence air pollution production of napalm
Scientific and technological progress is guided by a narrow and distorted concept of productivity, which
externalizes the social costs of livelihood destruction and the ecological costs of ecosystem destruction.
Across many cultures and times, the street has not been a powerful symbol of the public realm.
false
GDP can account for and measure the distribution of growth.
false
GDP distinguishes between spending on bad things and spending on good things.
false
Meadows found when asking other experts to vision a World without hunger they eagerly responded.
false
Radical imagination is a thing that individuals possess in greater or lesser quantities.
false
Robert Kennedy asserted that our national purpose and personal satisfaction are served by continuation of economic progress and amassing of worldly goods.
false
Spending at bike shops by Black customers increased 6 percent between 2000 and 2010, while in the same period, White customers spent 12 percent more than before.
false
Spontaneous obsolescence, combined with other factors like intensive advertising and the rise in disposable income, is responsible for much of the unnecessary waste we produce.
false
The United States recycles more than half of the paper it uses on an annual basis
false
The arrival of autonomous vehicles (AVs) — cars that drive themselves -- will have a benign impact on society's energy use.
false
The use of markets to allocate health, education, public safety, national security, criminal justice, environmental protection, recreation, procreation, and other social goods have been a cornerstone of our economic life for more than 50 years.
false
Urbanites spend more on housing and transportation than suburbanites.
false
Women's "inherent disinterest in bicycling" has proven to be true as evidenced by data and experience from bicycling groups.
false
n the Soda Pop Calorimeter demonstration there is a loss of mass
false
Electric vehicles are currently attractive options for use
for commuting 80 to 90 miles
The best way to build a vision is to
go to a quite place close your eyes take deep breaths
Streets can once again become thriving, livable environments for people, not just cars. By which of the following? [select all correct answers]
grand boulevards that welcome pedestrians, vendors etc becoming cultural destinations becoming safe play zones for children
As cities compete to attract corporations, citizens, and especially young, entrepreneurial talent, the winners will be those places that
have the sort of environment and culture favored by creative class and millennial workers which include communities with street life, the pedestrian culture that arises from walkablity.
In the Soda Pop Calorimeter demonstration the stored energy in the nut is converted to
heat and light
Which type of bulb is the least energy efficient ?
incandescent
Our streets once functioned as
multiple-use town centers-places where children could play and where neighbors and strangers would converse.
Lukacs makes the point that collective checks on corporate power have been effectively blocked by corporate funding of:
lobbying to obstruct policies
Human beings, as living beings, have a choice between two alternatives - the entropic option or an emergent option. The former locks us in a(n):
mechanical worldview, based on mechanistic science, mechanical production, and a mechanistic economics whose myth of perpetual growth leads us to death, decay, and disintegration.
Which beverage container is not covered by Michigan's bottle bill law (deposit on bottles/cans)?
none of options listed
Which state has a bottle bill (deposit on cans/bottles)?
none of the options listed
Which states does not have a bottle bill law (deposit on cans/bottles)
ohio
Streets may be a force in shaping our physical and mental landscapes so we name them after
our idols and fallen heroes
Ways you can improve the block/street where you live or work include:
planting a tree or flowers, organizing a block party
Spartan Stadium requiring that all food and beverages sold by concession stands must be in compostable containers is an example of what type of Extended Producer Responsibility?
procurement preferences
Outlawing lead in paint is an example of what type of Extended Producer Responsibility?
product bans
A Federal agency specifying that all paper purchased must have at least 35% recycled fibers is an example of what type of Extended Producer Responsibility?
quotas
As Capra and Lappé discuss, it is important to shift from thinking environmental problems exist because we have hit limits to
remake human-made systems to align with what we know creates sustainable communities
The history of the "freeway rush" following World War II would drive development away from cities and would, in turn,
result in much of the middle-class population migrating to the suburbs further disenfranchising poor and largely nonwhite inner-city communities.
Lukacs argues that neoliberalism has become part of U.S. culture with which of the following narratives being advanced (check all that are correct):
stigmatization of compassion celebration of competitive self-interest
A large appliance company being responsible for recycling its packaging or old appliances is an example of what type of Extended Producer Responsibility?
take back program
Dell accepting responsibility for recovery and disposing of its old computers is an example of what type of Extended Producer Responsibility?
take-back programs
Ridesharing is
the act of filling empty seats by pairing drivers and riders who share common origins, destinations, or stops en route.
From the company side, they can do the following to nudge consumers in a 'greener' deliver direction such as:
train delivery drivers to drive in ways that reduce their emissions providing incentives to use slower/greener deliveries
A crisis is never a crisis until it is validated by disaster
true
According to Vandana Shiva, physical work has been defined as drudgery and as degrading. However, it is being without work that is degrading.
true
As Sandler points out, when we decide that certain goods may be bought and sold, we decide, at least implicitly, that it is appropriate to treat them as commodities, as instruments of profit and use
true
At the end of the Soda Pop Calorimeter demonstration the nut no longer has any caloric value
true
Big hairy goals are better than small modest goals as modest goals are only what we think we can achieve whereas big hairy goals are what we want to achieve
true
Current agricultural systems in Iowa contribute to the increase in severe floods
true
DTE Energy removed all the street lights from Highland Park in order to pay the bills
true
Energy always flows from hotter objects to colder objects
true
Energy is never created or destroyed but is transformed
true
Extended Producer Responsibility puts the environmental and economic impacts of a product on the producers and consumers of the product
true
From the consumer side, opting for slower shipping times and consolidating orders, can make online shopping cleaner.
true
GDP doesn't account for depletion of natural capital and ecosystem services.
true
If you compare online shopping with driving to the store, in many cases online shopping can have a smaller carbon footprint.
true
In Michigan nearly all (97%) of the bottles and cans with deposits are recycled
true
Increasing walkability in urban settings can improve urban vitality.
true
Individuals buying more and wanting those goods to be at their home really fast creates demand for more delivery vehicles, more traffic, and potentially more emissions.
true
Meadows argued that our models tend to be too narrow, too linear and not understanding the complexity of systems
true
Meadows argued that our models tend to be too narrow, too linear and not understanding the complexity of systems.
true
Measures that improve bicycling safety and comfort aren't just a women's issue — good streets for bikes are good for everyone. The fact that women are taking the lead in advocating for such streets is a result of social and economic inequality, not of inherent preferences, fears, or biological imperatives.
true
Mechanical energy is eventually transformed to heat energy
true
Part of being a conscious consumer is educating ourselves about the hidden costs behind the things we buy. But it also means understanding how our purchases can help us shape more sustainable business practices and a more responsible economy as a whole.
true
Part of the appeal of markets is that they don't pass judgment on the preferences they satisfy. They don't discriminate between worthy preferences and unworthy ones.
true
Radical imagination is a collective process, something that groups do through shared experiences.
true
Red, Bike, and Green aimed to promote and use bicycles as a tool to help Black people be healthier; save money and support Black-owned businesses; and reduce pollution.
true
Sandel makes the point that a debate about the moral limits of markets would enable us to decide, as a society, where markets serve the public good and where they do not belong.
true
Suburbanites are more likely to struggle with obesity or die in car crashes as compared to urban dwellers.
true
Suburbanites have twice the carbon footprint as city dwellers.
true
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics states that with each step of transformation energy is less useful to do work
true
The United States uses nearly 1/3 of all the paper in the World
true
The authors believe that social movements are important as vehicles for needed social change as well as refugees in an uncaring world.
true
The authors believe that social movements can serve as spaces for friendship, community, and empowerment as well as a place to 'prefigure' the world as one might like to see it.
true
The most common measure of economic progress is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which measures a nation's economic activity.
true
To better address climate change (and other wicked problems), Lukacs points out we should start working collectively to address corporate power.
true
Until recently, there has been a myth that people of color don't want to bike. A growing number of groups like RBG and recent census data show that people of color make up the fastest-growing demographic among cyclists.
true
Vandana Shiva asserts that, substituting the work of people with work done by machines running on fossilized carbon is a major contributor to the pollution of the atmosphere and the climate crisis.
true
You can still buy incandescent light bulbs in the United States
true
To address the current situation in which markets and market values occupy spaces of life traditionally governed by nonmarket norms, Sandel suggests:
we need to have a public debate about where markets belong—and where they don't.
