Competency
Apply stewardship and sustainability solutions to environmental issues.
Student Success Criteria
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Scenario
You have been assigned the duty of examining how the environment relates to your place of business. You may choose one of the following career categories: healthcare, manufacturing, engineering, agriculture, food, hospitality, or information technology. In addition, your task requires you to include how the environment relates to daily life at your place of business. The goal is for you to guide colleagues and the company in the application of stewardship and sustainability. You are asked to create a newsletter that will be distributed at your workplace. In preparation to complete this task, reflect on the concepts you learned concerning the environment, such as the importance of clean air, water, and land. Also, consider how humans impact the environment with our homes, cars, purchases, and refuse.
Instructions
Create an article for a newsletter that includes the following:
- Examine how the environment relates to your chosen career (energy, resources, chemicals, waste, pollution, etc.)
- Examine how the environment relates to daily life at your workplace (energy, resources, trash, transportation, etc.)
- Discuss your personal stewardship plans and recommendations (actions that manage natural resources)
- Share ideas of how to live and work sustainably
- Your article should be clear and organized. References should be in APA format
Competency
Analyze the importance of water and soil in the production and distribution of food.
Student Success Criteria
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Scenario
You have been hired as an environmental scientist for a local firm. For your first project, you are
asked to construct a food resiliency plan for your firm. Given our changing global climate,
growing population, overuse and scarcity of resource, such a management plan for the
production and distribution of food is crucial. The goal of this proposed plan is to reduce waste
and CO2 emissions contributed by your firm.
Instructions
Construct a detailed management plan for food resiliency. Your plan should consist of three
separate paragraphs, (5-7 sentences in length) and should contain the following elements:
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Your first paragraph should specify where and how your company will source its food
given a goal year (e.g., 2030).
This paragraph should consider measures to promote a fluid and organized plan for
food resiliency that is realistic and achievable by the end goal (e.g., aquaponics/vertical
farms sourced from local community centers to give residents access to fresh,
organically grown produce).
Your second paragraph should specify steps or measures that will be taken to move the
firm towards this food resiliency plan.
This paragraph should highlight the phasing out of foods sourced from farms that use
pesticides/chemicals.
Your third paragraph should discuss the potential reduction in food miles and
CO2 emissions that would be achieved by the end date.
This paragraph should highlight the end goal of reducing food miles and reducing
CO2 emissions through sourcing food from local sources.
Resources
International Institute for Environment and Development This resource discusses recycling,
reusing, and the combining of resources to reduce food miles and reliance upon fossil fuels in
sourcing and transporting food.
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit This resource details the steps to food resilience at the individual
and community levels, including data and case studies from different regions of the world.
Adolph, Barbara. Building Resilient Food Systems. (2019). International Institute for Environment
and Development. Retrieved from: https://www.iied.org/building-resilient-food-systems
Building Food Resilience. (August 24, 2017). U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. Retrieved from:
https://toolkit.climate.gov/topics/food/building-food-resilience
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