This document discusses sustainability and the human activities that threaten it. It defines sustainability as biological systems remaining diverse and productive over time. Some major human threats are listed as climate change, pollution, habitat destruction, and overexploitation. The document recommends methods to promote sustainability, such as environmentally-friendly farming, renewable energy, sustainable supplies, and policies that encourage alternatives to car usage and ownership.

1. International-mindedness:
The need for sustainability in
human activities and the
methods needed to promote
this.

2. What is sustainability?
• In ecology, sustainability is how biological
systems remain diverse and productive.

3. What human activities does to our
earth ?
• Climate change
• Pollution
• Habitat destruction
• Overexploitation

4. • Business and human activities can be direct
threats to ecosystems.
• Human activities can cause destruction,
degradation, and the impairment of
biodiversity and other natural resources.
• The accumulation of all negative impact from
human activities can exceed the ecological
threshold of the planet.

5. climate change

6. Pollution

8. habitat destruction

10. Overexploitation

11. Methods needed to promote
sustainability :
• Environmentally-friendly methods of farming
that allow the production of crops or livestock
without damage to human or natural systems.
• Preventing adverse effects to soil, water,
biodiversity, surrounding or downstream
resources.

12. • Utilizing renewable energy, and sustainable
material supplies (e.g. harvesting wood from
forests at a rate that maintains the biomass
and biodiversity).
• Encourage walking and biking
-Wider pedestrian pathway, bike share station
in commercial downtown, locate parking lot far
from the shopping centre, limit on street
parking, slower traffic lane in downtown area.

13. • Increase the cost of car ownership and gas
taxes
-Increase parking fees/ toll fees, encourage
people to drive more fuel efficient vehicles