Sustainability Flashcards
What are the 3 Pillars of sustainability?
-People
-Planet
-Profit
What is a TRADITIONAL PRACTICE?
Cultural burning applies cool and quick burns which support biodiversity and resilient landscapes. These low-intensity fires have several benefits:
- Save flora and fauna: animals, including beetle and ant colonies, have enough time to escape. Young trees can survive + grass seeds are intact for regrowth. The heat, which is much cooler than a hazard reduction burn, does not ignite the oil in a tree’s bark.
- Self-extinguishing: fire extinguishes straight after it burns the grass.
- Avoid chemical weed killers: introduced species, for example grasses, are not fire-resistant and can be removed with fire instead of chemicals.
What is another Cultural tradition/practice?
Totem.
Totems can be an animal, a plant, a landscape feature or even a weather pattern. Which the Indigenous individual vows to protect.
Name 1 Legislation to protect significant areas of Country and Place:
Native Title Act 1993
What was the PURPOSE of the Native title Act 1993?
To provide a national system for the recognition and protection of native title and for
its coexistence with the national land management system.
What can you do with Native Title?
- Live on the area and erect shelter and structures
- Access the areas for traditional purposes, like camping or for ceremonies
- Visit and protect important places and sites
- Hunt, fish and gather food or traditional resources like bush medicine
What is a SUSTAINABILITY INTITAIVE In my community? Describe its aim.
IMAGINE 2484.
An antidote to the shared vulnerability & uncertainty that many of us are feeling as a result of the global and local challenges of CLIMATE CHANGE.
Aim:
-Build shared vision & purpose as a means of recovery following extreme weather events.
-Strengthen community resilience by triggering actions that contribute to a thriving, resilient & safe future.
-Strengthen mental health & individual resilience
