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Lecture 8 (Self Study) Flashcards

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What is sustainable development?

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Meetin present needs without compromising future generations ability to meet their needs
-basically keeping our ecosystem healthy

Interacting with ecosystem ins ays that allow them to maintain sufficient functional integrity to continue providing all creatures with the food, water, shelter and other resources that they need

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Sustainable development is not…?

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A luxury to bee pursued after economic development and other priorities are achieved

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What happens to damaged ecosystems?

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Lose their capacity to meet basic human needs close off opportunities for economy development and social justice

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What does a health society give equal attention to?

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Social Justice
Economic development
Ecological Sustainability
-because theta re all mutually reinforcing

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What kind of system is earth?

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Ecosphere with many ecosystems within

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We are pollution out space, why is this a hazard?

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Potentially catastrophic risk to astronauts, satellites and international space station
-pieces range from <1cm, 1-10cm and larger pieces

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What is beach sand mining and why is it bad?

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> all other environmental crimes combined

-used for the global urbanization boon (concrete, asphalt and glass) and to store nuclear waste

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Why do people want beach sand?

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Desirable because of its shape (edgy)

Minerals found in beach sand are also used in consumer goods, paint, paper and plastic

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Who uses the most beach sand?

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Global North consumes most of these minerals but all sand wars are in the global south

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What is the first problem with plastic pollution of the ocean and its possible solutions??

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Hundreds of thousands of tons of plastic in our oceans

Solutions

  • Reduce overall use of plastics
  • Recycle: dispose properly
  • Advocate for biodegradable plastics
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What is the second problem with plastic pollution of the ocean and its possible solutions??

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Many chemicals added to plastics which end up in the environment

Solutions:

  • use BPA free products (Recycle codes 3&7 may contain BPA)
  • Cut back on cans (lined with BPA resin)
  • Avoid Heat (putting plastic in microwave/dishwasher)
  • Use alternatives (glass)
  • Advocate for biodegradable
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What is the third problem with plastic pollution of the ocean??

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Health effete of plastics in marine food chain

  • plastics absorb toxic substances
  • bioaccumulation
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What is the problem with plastic?

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  • Ubiquitous on the planet, production increased exponentially over past 60 years
  • Estimates of how much is floating in ocean is underestimated
  • All plastic breaks down to micro plastic
  • Micro plastics=90% of plastic collected
  • marine organisms consume
  • plastics in ocean have higher [ ] of pollutants
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What are curdles?

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Plastic pellets used to make other plastics and microbeads used in personal hygiene products also pollute oceans

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How much plastic enters the Great Lakes/yr?

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10,000 metric tons (22 million pounds)

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Why are microfibres a problem?

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Synthetic fibres<5mm are shed from the washing of older and cheaper clothes if washed in a top load machine
-100’s of kg of microfibres are released into local water bodies every day

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What are proposed solutions to reduce microfibres?

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  • Better quality clothes with anti shed treatment
  • Nanoball added to washing machine to capture plastic microfibres
  • Wash clothes less often
  • Waterless washing machienes
  • Filters on home washing machines
  • Slow fashion instead of fast
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What is fast fashion?

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Rapid production with short lead time

  • increase number of fashion seasons
  • low cost materials and labour
  • cheap fabrics and poor garment construction
  • product lifespan are deliberately shortened to increase consumption and early disposal
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Why is overconsumption in Global North bad?

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  • Threatens water resources in global south
  • reinforces socioeconomic inequality and degrades environment
  • Creates huge used clothing market (3.9 billion tons values at 4.3billion)
  • 70% of sloes in our closets are inactive
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What is the cycle of unwanted clothes?

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Unrated clothes>donated (charity in use, Canada, Europe)>Sold to commercial operators in same country> resold to recycler in Poland/india> resold to market traders in Africa Asia South America> resold to poor stall sellers in Africa Asia and South America> then resold to poor customers in Africa Asia and fourth America who grew the cotton or mate the t-shirt 5-6 years ago

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Why do the poor stalls sellers face greatest risk?

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  • Irregular shipments
  • Inconsistency of supply (depends on donations)
  • Fluctuations of currencies
  • Poor quality clothing
  • Large sized clothing (obese for Americans don’t fit many africans)
  • Overhead often exceeds sales
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What is the global clothes cycle?

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Ster in africa, move to asia
Asia sells to europ and N/A
Europe and N/A send it back to Africa Asia and S/A when finished with it
-clothes end up where they started

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What are the dimensions of slow fashion?

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Equality and localism
-caring for producers and local communities for sustainable life

Authenticity
-Traditionial techiques, more time spent per piece

Exclusivity
-small quantities of unique, high quality products

Functionality
-Maximizing product lifespan for a sustainable environment

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what are some solution towards promoting slow fashion?

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Adopt a more holistic view by considering purchase care and disposal

  • buy high quality items LESS OFTEN
  • Wear clothes until worn-out
  • Choose styles/designs that are LONG LASTING
  • Chose clothing made from one type of fabric
  • Wash at low temp less often with full machine
  • Reuse/repair/recycle
  • Consider versatility
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What are more solutions for promoting fast fashion?

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  • Regulate collection and donation sector
  • Raise awareness about fast fashion
  • Foster businesses that pay living wages
  • promote environmental responsibility in production and manufacture of cotton
  • Allow unionization to increase wages
  • ACTIVISM
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What is sustainable production?

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  • Every-stage of every products lifecycle has an environmental impact
  • life cycle assessment helps us understand the depth and breadth of this impact
  • Challenging as raw materials come from many sources and each involve inputs and outputs
  • Helpful in new product R&D to determine environmental footprint
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What are some solutions to sustainable production?

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Cradle to cradle production eliminates concept of waste, it uses:

  • technical materials: can be used over and over again without losing integrity/quality
  • Biological materials: that decomposes into the soil

Every product is designed with the intern of brining it back into either the technical cycle or the biological cupel

Goal is to borrow, instead of use

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Whats re thee proposed 5 solutions to sustainable consumption?

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  1. Government standards
    - efficient appliances
  2. Punishment or penalties
    - litter, pay more for peak hours, shopping bags
  3. Rewards or incentives
    - discount when bringing own mug, rebate for fuel efficient car
  4. Persuasion
    - teach children alternate ways
  5. Communication campaigns and education
    - raise awareness about broad impacts and consumption
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What are ecological determinants of health?

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Ecosystem based goods and services that we get from nature

-O2, water, food, fuel, natural resources, O3 layer, stable climate

30
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What are the key factors driving ecosystem changes?

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Population growth
Urbanization
Economic Growth &amp; development 
Technological changes and advances
Social Changes and movements
31
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In terms of ecological determinants of health, what do societal and cultural values emphasize?

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Emphasized progress or modernization, transforming human societies from rural and agrarian to urban and industrial

32
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What will healthier and more sustainable societies not be achieved by?

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Will not ba achieved in solution from wider social processes
-we need new ways of knowing governing and measuring

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What is GDP?

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Gross tall of products and serves bought and sold

  • assumed to correlate with standard of living
  • important indicator of nationaal economies
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What does GDP fail to distinguish between?

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Economic activities that are beneficial and those that are harmful

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What makes GDP go up?

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Slate of unhealthy goods (cigarettes, ultra process foods, weapons)

Reconstruction after war

Clean up after tornadoes

Services to deal with divorcee crime etc

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What is the problem with GDP?

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Crucial functions performed in the household and volunteer sectors are not included in the GDP (no money is exchanged)

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What is the Canadian index of wellbeing?

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Distinguishes between good things like health, clean air, and bad things like sickness and pollution

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What does the Canadian index wellbeing promote?

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Promotes volunteer work and upaid caregiving as social goals and overwork and stress as social deficits

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What does the Canadian index of wellbeing place values on?

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Educational achievement
Early childhood learning
Economic and personal security
Clean environment
Social and Health equity

Values a better balance between investment in health promotion and spending on illness treatment

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What is the Canadian index of wellbeing rooted in?

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Canadian value and developed through extensive public consultations
-will measure change overtime

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How many domains does Canadian index of wellbeing track?

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8 domains of wellbeing to see if our quality of life is getting better or works

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What are both GDP and CIW a measure of?

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Measure of our economy and wellbeing

-provide evidence to help us build a better society

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What are the 8 domains of welling that the Canadian index of wellbeing looks at?

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Democratic Engagement
Living Standards
Healthy Populations
Community Vitality
Time Use
Education
Environment
Leisure and Culture
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What makes time use of children and adolescents an indicator?

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Screen time
Time spent in organized extracurricular activities
Parental reading to preschoolers
Time spent in meals with parents at home

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What makes Community vitality an indicator?

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Feel safer walking alone after dark
Feel that most/many people can be trusted
Have 6 or more close friends
Report sense of belonging to community

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What makes Democratic engagement an indicator?

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  • Voter turnout for elections
  • Confidence in federal gouvernement
  • Percentage of women in parliament
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What makes living standards an indicator?

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  • Housing affordability
  • Employment quality
  • % of labour force with longterm unemployment
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What does the Canadian index of well-being move beyond?

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Moves beyond the silo approach to more comprehensive solution

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What patterns do the Canadian index of wellbeing see emerging?

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Health related to income and education

Higher education=longer life, less chronic disease, better health

Higher income=best predictor of future health

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What do we see in richer countries?

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Increase longevity but beyond a certain income level the curve flattens out
-longevity doest continually increase

51
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When are people happier and live more sustainably?

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When they favour intrinsic goals that embed them in family and community

52
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Why do bad policies harm wellbeing?

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Changes in eligibility for employment insurance

De-listing of medical services

Reduction in welfare benefits

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How can good policies improve wellbeing?

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Smoking restrictions

Affordable child care, adequate pensions/wages

Affordable housing, transportation, urban planning

54
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How does home economics education come into sustainability?

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Includes a global perspective including systems thinking and respect for diversity

55
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How can holistic environmental education be integrated into teaching through what mediums?

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Textile studies
Consumer studies
Family Studies
Food Studies

56
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What do few people know bout their clothing in terms of textile studies?

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Few people know how bit whom and under what conditions their clothing is made

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What can students do to raise awareness of how, whom and what conditions their clothing is made under?

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  • Consider the social economic and ecological costs and textile products
  • Learn about the environmental impacts of producing and caring for different types of fabrics
  • Buy more sustainable fabrics
  • Develop sewing/recycling skills
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What is consumer studies?

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Raise awareness about consumption habits that deplete the planets resources?

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What can students do to bring awareness to consumer studies?

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  • Conduct a lifecycle analysis of a product
  • Compare green and conventional products
  • Calculate their own ecological footprint
  • Consider value of things that do not have a price tag
  • Consider smaller, more E-efficient housing options
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What is family studies?

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Famines are dependent on the natural environment for physical sustenance and upon social organizations that give quality and meaning to life

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How can students bring awareness to family studies?

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Examine how green spaces in urban areas contribute to healthy lifestyles

Consider how their health and well being is linked to the health of the environment

62
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What is food studies?

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excellent way to explore complex relationships

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What can students do to bring awareness to food studies?

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  • Analyze factors beyond price, nutritional value and convenience
  • Learn how to grow, cook, and store food
  • Learn how to compost food waste
  • Consider seasonality rather than variety
  • Think critically about who really needs dietary supplements
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How do we restore the ‘oikos’?

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Raise awareness of how everyday choices affect wellbeing locally and globally

Demonstrate leadership in influencing such choices

Foster an ethic of care or stewardship towards our environment

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