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Sustainable Business and Resource Management
For our benchmark, my group and I created a sustainable business plan focused in the food industry. After researching how other food industries impact our earth spheres, resources used, and the overall carbon footprint, we created ASAM Cafe to outweigh the negative factors and promote sustainable practices community and world wide.
In the food industry, high levels of carbon are released in the atmosphere due to the transportation and extraction of natural materials, as well as greenhouse gases, caused by energy usage in stores and manufacturing plants. All these factors intertwine with one another and directly impact earth's system (biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere) in a never ending chain. For example, with the mass production of animals to fulfill the demand of meat in America. It leads to the creation of industrial farms which conduct harmful practices that are inflicted on animals and affects the environment. As the biosphere is being negatively impacted, with amount of land that goes to industrial farms and also add deforestation, it disrupts the geosphere. With this information, I believe that we can create a sustainable future by using more environmental friendly practices such as using renewable energy or eating clean meat.
Environmental science
How do the earth systems affect each other?
The earth systems help the planet carry out important missions it needs to provide sustainability for all life that lives on it. If one is out of whack then all the systems could fail.
How can an understanding of environmental science aid in handling natural disasters?
We can learn how bad disasters are and try to think of ways to help.
What efforts can we make to create a sustainable future?
We have to have more than people change their habits we need everyone and everything to change their habits in order to make a big enough change.
Zeus Sustainable Business and Resource Management Pres
Building a Sustainable Business
Asam Cafe
In our project of creating a sustainable business and resource management. Our group decided to build a sustainable and greener cafe based out of the food industry and inspiration from Starbucks. In order to reduce the C02 levels of our cafe, we have decided to get all our ingredients locally as well as create a system that recycles water in and outside the cafe. The earth systems will be affected by our cafe by the C02 emissions caused by the transportation of goods and the use of water for our cafe. The C02 emissions can increase the temperature of the area over time or even cause smog. However, because we have resorted for a greener local approach we will diminish the emissions produced and with the recycling of water we will create sustainability. We won’t harm the biosphere nor the hydrosphere that much as we will strive to be Eco-friendly, and self-sustained.
Sustainable Business- Cafe
Cafe ASAM
In an attempt to create a sustainable business our group created a cafe that was influenced by Starbucks. We researched sustainable business models to build the basis of our cafe around for a more environmentally friendly experience. To decrease our carbon footprint we would have to get nearly all of our ingredients locally, and recycle our water use with sustainable practices like tank treatments and etc. At our cafe we wanted to create something that was enjoyable yet efficient for the environment and those that live in it. If other companies followed our business model, and even built upon it I think it would lead to a far more sustainable future. The biggest cause of pollution and carbon emission in the food industry is the transportation of goods, food/ water waste, and using materials that aren't compostable or organic. With more influences of sustainable businesses the future of the food industry could potentially become more efficient energy wise and less harmful to the environment. After researching how to create a sustainable business i think it could be useful to me in a future to help create a legitimate company that focuses on sustainability.
Sustainable Business and Resource Management
Car Industry - Zeus Inc
Sustainable Business and Resource Management
Earth systems affect each other because they all rely on each other in one way or another. In our case, the biosphere and the geosphere affect our business and it being sustainable because if our restaurant treats the geosphere and biosphere like trash it will result in the downfall of the communities that surround the restaurant. So for the restaurant to last in the community, it needs to treat the surrounding area with respect. Our business doesn't really deal with natrual disasters but we can severly hurt the environment by using up tons of energy and resources. So to make our restaurant sustainable we will recycle, limiting pollution, and manage our resources. If more and more restaurants follow our plan things like plastic straws(which severely hurts the environment) will become a thing in the past. By doing this project it opened my eyes and showed how restaurants can hurt the environment if they are not careful with their management of resources and uses of plastic.
Link to powerpont: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p1ldQFrpzo4uKIzQBJDrnvpA8L-mMPsn3dNIKIgj3uI/edit?usp=sharing
Sustainable Restaurant!
Sustainability Resturant
Sustainability is being able to maintain a stable life. As a group, we choose to look at the effects restaurants have on our environment. This industry affects all of us because we all go to restaurants and how they affect the environment and their surrounding community is important because their production of goods can hurt the environment. Some natural resource that can be used in our sustainability is to use natural ingredients to make their cuisine. Also, depending on where they put their restaurant they will need land to build, electricity, and water so they can cook, clean, and for plumbing. Some of the ways in which ecological systems depend on energy inputs because individual organisms rely on a continuous input of energy in order to survive, grow, and reproduce. Scientists keep track of inputs, outputs, and changes to complex systems by keeping data of every system.Natural systems change over time and space due to the negative contributions humans are doing to our earth.
Super Foods: Enviornmental Science Benchmark
1. How do Earth systems affect each other?
- Earth systems affect each other in alot of different ways. They generally affect each other by transferring energy between each other. For example, a human (a member of the Biosphere) takes in oxygen from the Atmosphere and uses it.
2. What efforts can we make to create a sustainable future?
-We can make a lot of changes to help create a sustainable future. I think that the main thing that we can do is try our best minimize waste creation.
Virtual Presentation: http://ecosuperfoods.weebly.com/
Pictures: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tUM-Po5GXrVu0ns-2MXdre4x2-jT4aiVdn2Wvnm44H4/edit?usp=sharing
Car Industry
Environmental Science Benchmark
NSSAH (Healthcare Industry)
Sustainable Business Project
NSSAH
Healthcare Sustainability
Sustainable Energy
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KFjeIWUc8Ws7x8OpwkmbsSdzDSTtLVRbsHE0YL3NGek/edit?usp=sharing
1. How do the earth systems affect each other? Earth systems affect each other because they are constantly interacting with one another. When we mine for materials in the geosphere this interacts with the atmosphere and hydrosphere by putting different elements into the air and run off to the water.
2. How can an understanding of environmental science aid in handling natural disasters? Understanding environmental science can help in handling natural disasters because it protects people during natural disaster, also it makes it easier to predict the disaster, and know how they will impact different areas of the world.
3. What efforts can we make to create a sustainable future? We can create a sustainable future by reducing the number of resources used, recycling properly, using reusable energy/energy saving products.
Reaction: This project helped me get a better understanding of the different elements that we extract form the world and how we can find ways in witch they are more sustainable environment where the Earth can be around for longer.
Electric JJEL
Sustainable Technology
Earth systems affect each other because they all rely on each other to be successful. For instance, plants (biosphere) gets water (hydrosphere) and nutrients from the soil (geosphere) and then releases water vapor into the atmosphere. Without one system, the others fail. Getting an understanding of environmental science aid in handling natural disasters is very important because it could help us learn how to deal with the natural disasters when they happen which can save millions of lives. I think some efforts we can do to create a sustainable future is trying to make the world a better place to live in terms of making sure it's healthy. Doing things like recycling more, walking/riding bikes, and turning off electronics when they're not being used could go a long way in terms of making a sustainable future.
Electric JJEL
Sustainable Restaurant
Ethnobotany
The way that indigenous plants and the culture be preserved as a whole is by having more classes teach these kind of things. This information can be shared amongst students at the grade level of 5th grade and could teach it again in sophomore year of high school. There could be special schools days where they acknowledge indigenous culture and spend a day or however long they want to spend celebrating and cultivating that culture. Plant anatomy affects plant physiology because plants need to be structurally strong so that it can do certain features; a plant that thrives in rainy conditions and is built for humid areas such as the rainforest isn't going to work the same if it was suddenly put in a environment like a desert, it wouldn’t survive. Humans interactions affects a plants ability to adapt to changing climates if it’s a plant that is always in a constant environment. If a plant is always being nurtured by having constant light and being given water at certain times throughout the day the plant will never have to experience a drought of water or sometimes not seeing the sun. Since the plant is in a constant environment it will always know only that constant.
A sustainable fashion foundation
For my quarter 1 environmental science benchmark, my partners and I created a fictional fashion factory that creates clothing with little to no man made resources and more with natural resources. An industry affects all of earths system because in order for industry's to function, they take a piece from each one. For example, the fashion industry uses a lot of oils to create to clothing affecting the biosphere. With much effort from humans, we can save energy, water and our earth by thinking twice about the resources we use and think twice about the things we use everyday and where they are really coming from.
