Overview
Do you have what it takes to be sustainable? Your actions and behaviors can improve sustainability and ensure that future generations can live a life of happiness. For example, your action of conserving electricity and your related behavior of turning off the lights can help reduce power plant emissions and improve air quality. Being sustainable is about more than just you, though. Let’s start by looking at your actions and behaviors. Then, in our next module, we’ll talk about interconnectedness.
Directions
For this short paper, you will write about what sustainability means to you and how your actions and behaviors can impact the environment.
Specifically, you must address the following:
Explain what sustainability means to you.
Consider giving examples of your personal experiences. If you do not feel comfortable sharing your personal experiences, you may use different examples that resonate with you. For instance, you may use media or news examples that reflect what sustainability means to you.
Describe how considering sustainability affects your daily life.
For example, if you think about sustainability when making decisions about transportation, you may decide to use public transportation instead of driving a vehicle with no passengers. This could save you money on gas, but it might pose other issues related to convenience or time management.
Describe decisions you could consider making about a sustainability issue like the above example, along with the positive and negative impacts of the decisions on your daily life.
Describe how your daily actions and behaviors can impact the environment.
For instance, if you choose to use public transportation as in the example above, your daily commute could support sustainability by reducing carbon emissions that harm the environment.
Describe how your daily actions and behaviors related to the decisions you described above (or other decisions) can help or harm the environment.
What to Submit
Submit your paper as a 1- to 2-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. No sources are required. However, if you choose to use sources, follow APA citation guidelines when citing sources both throughout and at the end of your paper. While you will not be graded on the quality of your citations in this assignment, you may receive guidance from your instructor on how to properly cite sources.
