Mr. Hakulin

1. Mr. Hakulin • ..\week 1\day 1and 2\Introduction to your New Teacher.ppt

2. Vocab to study • Environmental science • natural resources • non-renewable resource • renewable resource • perpetual resource • sustainability • sustainable yield • per capita ecological footprint • environmental degradation

3. Environmental Science • WHAT IS IT??? • Journal your thoughts in a journal or somewhere else and we’ll discuss them after.

4. Environmental Science and Studies • Study of • how Earth’s environments work • how we interact with them • how we deal with problems affecting the environment and our relationship with it.

5. Connections in Nature • Environment- it is everything that is all around us • Albert Einstein stated, “The environment is everything that isn’t me.”

6. Where is your favorite outdoor place • In your journal • Describe the environment there? • What features of its environment make it special to you?

7. What are the top 5 problems/things affecting /facing your environment? • List and then rank them • Provide reasoning for ranking • Share with a partner and discuss your data

8. What type of environment do you prefer?

11. http://youthvoices.net/discussion/stop-littering-our-beaches

12. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/bp-oil-spill

13. http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article21717.html

14. What type of environment are you creating for you and others?

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19. http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=image

20. We suffer http://thingsboganslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/road-rage.gif

21. Our environment suffers http://shropshire.gov.uk/environmental-maintenance/street-cleaning/report-a-litter-problem/

22. What are your goals for this class? • Contemplate and journal for a bit • Then feel free to contemplate and journal on the questions below. • What will you do with your knowledge gained from this class? • How will you implement it?

23. What is the Purpose, Theme, or Goal, of Environmental Science

24. Ecosystem • A set of organisms within a defined area interacting with each other and with their environment of nonliving matter and energy. • Ecology- the Biological Science where we study how organisms interact with each other and their environment

25. Sustainability • Contains 3 main components: • Essentially What do our lives and economies depend on? 1. Natural Capital • Capital is an economic term for money and other forms of wealth, used to support our lifestyle • Natural Capital- the natural resources and services that keep us living and support our economies

26. Sustainability • 2. Recognizing how we degrade natural capital • Use only as much as you have and replenish what you used • “Protect your capital and live on the income it provides.”

27. Sustainability • 3. Solutions • Scientific vs. Political - Data may lead us to conclusions and educated plans but implementing plans requires decisions in the forms of rules, regulations, and/or incentives

28. 3 R’s of Sustainability • Reduce • Reuse • Recycle

29. Natural Resources • Materials and energy in nature that are essential or beneficial to us • Can be Renewable or nonrenewable • Examples of renewable? • Air, water, soil, plants, wind, etc. • Example of nonrenewable? • Copper, oil, coal, etc. • What is a perpetual resource?

30. Reuse vs. Recycle • Reuse- using the resource over and over again in the same form • Recycling- Collecting waste material and processing it into new materials Drawbacks??? What takes less energy, exploiting virgin metallic resources or recycling them???

31. Natural Services • Natural processes which support life and our economies. • The biodiversity of Earth’s species, ecosystems and their many components provide us these services without monetary cost • Technology can be used to enhance our natural services but there is no substitute for these precious resources

32. Project Introduction • Outline and Introduction • Outdoor Observations Activity • Mapping and Measuring Property

33. Tragedy of the Commons • Biologist Garrett Hardin wrote a scientific article in 1968 titled, “The Tragedy of the Commons.” • It detailed the problems faced with infinite population and finite resources • A user of “common” or open-access resources rationalizes, “I am doing what everyone is doing, If I do not utilize this resource, somone else will. If I pollute or waste a little, it does not matter in the whole.”

34. Excerpt from article • Your thoughts in journal • Then discussion

35. Population Labs • Activity 1.1- • Population Census Lab • Determining Population of a Species • Fishing for the Future Lab

36. Some axioms to consider • There is no free lunch • All things are interconnected • More is not always better • No one is perfect but we can all be better • No one can do everything, but we can all do something • Be not merely good, be good for something • Think globally, act locally

37. Impacts of Wealthy Countries Vs. Poor • Developed countries- (18%) classified by U.N. based on ave. income p.p. • Examples- US, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand • Use 88% of Earth’s resources • Developing Countries (82%) - all other ones

38. China • Currently has as many middle class consumers as the US • Projections- In 3 years (2015) that number will be more than double the total US population

39. IPAT Model • Created in 1970’s by Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren to show how (P) population size, (A) Affluence-resource consumption per. Person, and (T) beneficial and harmful environmental effects of technologies determine (I) environmental impact • Equation I=P x A x T

40. I=P x A x T

41. Ecology • from the Greek terms: οἶκος, "house, or dwelling place"; and from λογία, "study of"

42. Ecosystems and us • http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ean08.sci.ess.earthsys.maclean/steve-maclean-conservationist/ • http://vitalny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ean08.sci.ess.earthsys.yukonriver/on-the-yukon-river/

43. Water • What’s in your Water Activity • Vocab. Terms -Point Source -Navigable waters

44. Pollution • What is it? • What are the two main kinds? -point sources- -nonpoint sources-