Segment B: Building Sustainably
Segment B: Building Sustainably
In order to understand the building blocks of sustainable construction, host Raiany Silva heads over to Arabia Mountain High School where she engages in a lesson on environmental design.
Science
Construct an argument from evidence regarding the ecological effects of human innovations (Agricultural, Industrial, Medical, and Technological Revolutions) on global ecosystems.
Design and defend a sustainability plan to reduce your individual contribution to environmental impacts, taking into account how market forces and societal demands (including political, legal, social, and economic) influence personal choices.
Explain how collective community efforts can help sustain environments.
Explain ways that stakeholders of a school can work together toward being energy efficient?
Explain how innovation and technology has had a negative effect on the environment?
How can individuals reduce their negative impact on the environment?
byproduct: something that is produced as a result of making something else, or something unexpected that happens as a result of something
carbon footprint: a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels by a particular person, group, etc.
gross domestic product (GDP): measures the value of economic activity within a country; the sum of the market values, or prices, of all final goods and services produced in an economy during a period of time
gross national product (GNP): an estimate of the total value of all the final products and services turned out in a given period by the means of production owned by a country's residents; measures the output of a country's residents regardless of the location of the actual underlying economic activity
infant mortality rate: the probability of a child born in a specific year or period dying before reaching the age of one, expressed per 1,000 live births
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design): a green building certification program used worldwide
maternal mortality rate: the probability of a woman dying while pregnant or within one year of the end of pregnancy from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy
monoculture: the practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time
net-zero: cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions re-absorbed from the atmosphere, by oceans and forests for instance
