Chapter 1
Introduction to Sustainability
Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, the reader will be able to:
- Define sustainability
- Discuss the Conference of Parties meeting in Paris in 2015
- Define the term Carbon War Room or CWR
- Describe the “1.5 to Stay Alive” initiative
- Explain the six leading green economy investments
- Identify how sustainability can be introduced into schools and the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) curriculum
- List the programs that can prepare the future green workforce
Key Terms
- 3 E’s
- Brundtland Commission
- Carbon War Room
- Center for Our Common Future
- Conference of Parties (COP)
- Green
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
- Maker Movement
- Maximum sustainable yield (MSY)
- Net zero
- Precautionary Principle
- Stanford marshmallow experiment
- STEM
- Sustainabe Land Management (SLM)
- Sustainability
- Techshop
- UN Agenda 21
- UNCED
- U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
- WCED
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Finding Academic Solutions for Sustainability
Sustainability Around the World
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