environmental Sustainability

1. Environmental Sustainibility:
Stratergies, Benefits and
Challanges

2. Our Environment:
We live in Two Worlds
World of Plants Animals Soils Air and Water
and
World of Social Institutions and Artifacts
cont...

3. Environment: encircling/surrounding
Human inhibits both Natural and Built
(technological, social and cultural) world

4. Today we are faced with a
challenge that calls for a
shift in our thinking, so that
humanity stops threatening
its life-support system.
-Wangari Maathai, Nobel Prize
2004.

5. Environmental Sustainability
in
Early Societies vs Modern Societies

6. Rate of
Regeneration
Rate of
Utilization
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Rate of
Utilization
Rate of
Regeneration
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7. Wise
use
Human-Resource Interactions

8. Earlier
Today
Human Nature
Nature Human
Carbon Footprint:
Transport, Storage,
Processing, Service

9. Resource Exploitation
Rising pollution Levels
Environmental movements