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Various aspects of sustainability and environmentalism, including trends, practices, and challenges. Topics covered include eco-consciousness, need recognition, water use and conservation, energy consumption and savings, pollution, noise pollution, waste reduction, and air quality. The document also touches upon financial management and social class.
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Pattern of resource use to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 Reducing, Reusing, Recycling TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 Trends, practices, preferences, and variations in human behavior. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 Responsibility for preserving what we inherited. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Systems approach emphasizes interconnectedness and interaction between different systems, which are composed of living and nonliving things.
Living systems are open self-organizing living things that interact with their environment. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 Subsystem of human's ecology that emphasizes relationships b/w families and environment. TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 Study of how living things relate to their natural environment. TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 Subsystem of human ecology that emphasizes relationships between an organism and their environment. TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 Place where an organism lives and the surrounding external conditions.
Anti-environmentalist, passive, pro-environmentalist. TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 Seeing the need to change lifestyle in order to help improve the environment. TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 Person realizes they need a resource. TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 Lack of resources causes lack of oppurtunities to access it. TERM 20
DEFINITION 20 News releases, press conferences, warnings, legislations, television, magazine, newspapers, radio, and families.
TERM 22
DEFINITION 22 Human encroachment. TERM 23
DEFINITION 23 Introduction of contaminants into a natural environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem. TERM 24
DEFINITION 24 Six fold. TERM 25
DEFINITION 25 Chlorinated water, trialomethanes, lead, PCB's (polychlorinated biphenyles), pathogenic bacteria and viruses,
50% of electricity produced worldwide. TERM 32
DEFINITION 32 20,000 to 30,000 kilowatt hours TERM 33
DEFINITION 33 60% for space heating and cooling, 20% for hot water, 20% for cooking/refrigerating, 10% for lighting and appliances. Remaining for standing charges and maintainence. TERM 34
DEFINITION 34 improve insulation, weatherstripping, add alterations to house (i.e. adding storm windows, adding overhangs, shutting drapes and doors), mend cracks in walls, windows, and doors. TERM 35
DEFINITION 35 Rigid panels or sheets of insulation, Batts, blown insulation, vapor-proof barrier of strong plastic, double or triple glazed windows, weatherstrip around doors and windows, window awnings, insulated drapes, plant oaks and maples around house.
Leaves shield house during summer, then fall off during winter and allow heat to hit house. TERM 37
DEFINITION 37 install computerized thermostat, turn down water heater, keep refrigerator temp between 38-42 degrees Fahrenheit, freezer kept at 0-5 degrees Fahrenheit, use smaller appliances, and replace old appliances with newer and more effecient appliances. TERM 38
DEFINITION 38 Dimmer switches, lighting areas for specific needs, fluorescent lightbulbs, use light colored paint on house and furniture, replace old lamps with new efficient ones, turn off lights when not being used, check energy guide on new appliances before buying. TERM 39
DEFINITION 39 Excessive, displeasing human, animal or machine-created environmental noise that disrupts the activity or balance of human or animal life. TERM 40
DEFINITION 40
Too much ozone, airborne particles, sulfur oxide, lead, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxides. TERM 47
DEFINITION 47 Cars, trucks, motorcycles, airplanes, trains, buses, boats, factories, drycleaners, homes, oil refineries. TERM 48
DEFINITION 48 Second-hand smoke, biological contaminants attached to air- borne dust, particulates (solid particles), household products, carbon monoxide, radon, volatile organic compounds (new smell from carpets, wood cabinets, pesticides), lead, and asbestos. TERM 49
DEFINITION 49 Use solid deodarants, keep car tuned, use bikes instead of cars, don't smoke, air out house, clean heaters and air conditioner filters regularly, use dehumidifier to keep humidity below 65%, use safe building materials and installation methods, put green plants in house and workplace. TERM 50
DEFINITION 50 shift to less harmful energy sources, think more holistically, become greener consumer, reduce waste and pollution, and pass down environmental values to children and other members of society.
Transforming process. TERM 52
DEFINITION 52 Identify financial goals, collect information about one's financial picture, analyze resources, and make financial decisions. TERM 53
DEFINITION 53 Spending, Saving, and Investing. TERM 54
DEFINITION 54 Evaluating performance of money management from time to time. TERM 55
DEFINITION 55 A guide to spending.
Maintain a checking account, pay bills promptly, and carrying using and paying off each month a gasoline or department store credit card. TERM 62
DEFINITION 62 Residential stability, job stability, education, income, previous home ownership, and your ratio of debt to income. TERM 63
DEFINITION 63 Keep financial plan in mind, and if an item is not on the plan DO NOT BUY! TERM 64
DEFINITION 64 How quickly one can transform assets into cash. TERM 65
DEFINITION 65 Investment is putting money into something with the expectation of profit. I.e. stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, and retirement funds.
A form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss. TERM 67
DEFINITION 67 Only life insurance. TERM 68
DEFINITION 68 Life insurance which provides coverage at a fixed rate of payments for a limited period of time, the relevant term. Used to achieve only a short-term goal. TERM 69
DEFINITION 69 Life insurance policy that remains in force for the insured's whole life and requires (in most cases) premiums to be paid every year into the policy. TERM 70
DEFINITION 70 An investment, supposedly $300,000 to raise a child.
5% of pop. and make $75,000 a year TERM 77
DEFINITION 77 17% of pop. and $50,000 a year TERM 78
DEFINITION 78 17% of pop. and $40,000 a year TERM 79
DEFINITION 79 17% of pop. and $30,000-$40,000 a year TERM 80
DEFINITION 80 20% of pop. and $25,000-$30,
20% of pop. and under $16,000 a year TERM 82
DEFINITION 82 22.1 million families TERM 83
DEFINITION 83 6 months income in savings, insurance for all members, and retirement plan when income becomes fixed. TERM 84
DEFINITION 84 women of a lower class than themselves (less education, little poorer, younger). TERM 85
DEFINITION 85 shrinks as women grow older, become more educated, and get richer.
women having less time for child care, declining birth rate, blurring the sex role distinction, pressure to be career woman and homemaker, social stigma, personal identity and self-esteem problems, guilt over lack of child care, social network dilemmas, and dilemmas of multiple-role cycling. TERM 92
DEFINITION 92 first generation of americans that won't increase their wealth to the level of their parents bc of inflation.