sustainable and unsustainable human actions

Our first learning objective was define sustainability, resources, abiotic systems and biotic systems. Sustainability is the use of Earth's resources in ways that ensure their availability in the future. Resources are a substance in the environment that is useful to people, is economically and technologically feasible to access, and is socially acceptable to use. Abiotic systems are composed of nonliving or inorganic matter. Biotic systems are composed of living organisms.

The second learning objective is identify and describe the model of sustainability using the pillars of sustainability. The models of sustainability using the pillars is a venn-diagram with economics, environment and society. The environmental pillar is the largest which means when we are buying or doing something we should think of how it will affect our environment and base our decisions off that. The next pillar is society. This pillar should be considered after environment if the product or action you are thinking about is okay for the environment. This pillar is asking will the society be okay with this. Lastly, the third pillar is economics. This pillar is considered after environment and society are considered. This pillar is talking about the amount of money you are spending on the object.

The third learning objective is identify examples of sustainable and unsustainable human actions. Examples of sustainable actions are recycling, solar energy, and wind energy. Some examples of unsustainable human actions are cutting down lot's of trees and not working to replace them, littering, and polluting the environment with things such as coal.

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