The document discusses various natural resources essential for human survival, including land, water, forests, minerals, food, and energy, and distinguishes between renewable and non-renewable resources. It highlights environmental issues caused by human activities, such as deforestation and pollution, alongside the need for green skills to foster a sustainable society. Green skills encompass both hard and soft skills required for jobs in green industries, emphasizing the importance of adaptability, creativity, and resource management.

1. GREEN SKILL
“The future will either be green
or not at all”
- Bob Brown

2. Environment
 Everything around us forms our environment. Whether its our natural environment
i.e. Forest, sky, rivers, grasslands etc, school environment, home environment.
 We get food, water, fuel etc from natural environment and we are dependent on that.
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3.  Resource can be natural or artificial.
 Human needs nature to survive, which includes- water, land, soil,
animals, forests, minerals, fossil fuels. They are called natural
resources.
 Natural resources can be of any form whether of solid, liquid or
gas. It may be organic or inorganic, metallic or non-metallic.
Categories of natural resources-
 Land resources- land can be used for production as well as
residence.
 Forest resources- Forest resource is a natural resource. Wood of
trees is used for cooking, medicines, making furniture etc.
 Water resources- water covers about 70% of earth surface and it
is a natural resource. Water is necessary element for life.
NATURAL RESOURCES

4.  Mineral resources- Found in earth crust
and are non-renewable resources.
Minerals includes metals e.g. Iron,
copper, gold, silvers, And non metals e.g.
Salt, clay, sand etc.
 Food resources- Resources that are used
as food or provide organisms. Plants,
animals. Agriculture is the main source
of plant food resource for human beings.
 Energy resources- energy resource is
something that can produce heat, power
life, move objects or produce electricity.

6.  Renewable resources- resource that
can be reused repeatedly. And do not
emit gases and does not pollute
environment. They are also called
inexhaustible resources. E.g. Wind,
solar energy.
 Non renewable resources-
Resources which can not be reused
once utilized. They are exhaustible
resources. They are the main cause of
pollution. E.g. Coal, oil, metals, natural
gas etc.

8.  Human activities which cause damage
to environment are-
 Deforestation- Clearance of forest,
cutting down of trees by human for doing
agriculture activities, construction of
houses. This has lead to loss of habitat.
 Pollution
 Overexploitation

9. POLLUTION
Pollution is caused by pollutants, which may be solid, liquid,
gaseous in nature. They can be created by human activity such
as trash produced by factories. Introduction of harmful
materials into environment can lead to damage environment (
air, water, land).
Types of pollution-
1. Land Pollution- damage to land due to harmful substances.
This can cause diseases. Why does it happen? Because of heavy
construction, release of wastage, toilet waste , using harmful
pesticides and fertilizers, waste from houses and factories.

10. 2. Water Pollution- addition of harmful substances into
water. Diseases such as jaundice, dysentery etc can
causes by drinking polluted water. Water pollution can
happen by throwing waste in water from houses,
factories.
3. Air Pollution- Addition of harmful gases in air. It can
cause heart and breathing problem and cancers. Can
cause climate change, droughts, floods. Air pollution
can take place due to some activities like burning fuel,
smoke from vehicles, smoke from factories, dust.

11.  NATURAL DISASTERS
Natural disasters includes floods, earthquakes,
landslides, storms etc.

12. WHAT CAN WE DO TO SAVE OUR ENVIRONMENT

14. GREEN SKILLS
Green skills are the knowledge, abilities, values and attitudes needed to live in,
develop and support a sustainable and resource-efficient society.
The Green General Skill index identifies four groups of work tasks that are especially important
for green occupations:
•Engineering and technical skills: hard skills encompassing competences involved with the
design, construction and assessment of technology usually mastered by engineers and technicians.
•Science skills: These skills are especially in high demand in each stage of value chains and in the
utility sector, which provides basic amenities such as water, sewage services and electricity.
•Operation management skills: know-how related to change in organizational structure required
to support green activities and an integrated view of the firm through life-cycle management
•Monitoring skills: They refer to skills required to assess the observance of technical criteria and
legal standards. Examples are environmental compliance inspectors, emergency management
directors and legal assistants.

15. SOFT SKILL
In addition to these skills, a range of soft skills are also considered to be increasingly
important, not only for green skills, but generally for “skills of the future”, including
also those necessary for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In particular, skills related to:
 design thinking
 creativity
 adaptability
 resilience, and even empathy, are regarded as critical.

17. THANK YOU
“The best way to
predict the future is to
create it”
- Peter Drucker