Listening & Speaking

___________ involves putting a passage from source material into your own words.

Summarize the TEDTalk you just watched using two to three sentences.

People use the word "________" to mean a lot of things.

According to Brundtland's definition of sustainability, what is sustainability?

True or false. Inorganic cotton is great if we want to reduce the amount of pesticides we use and the toxic pollutants we want to to emit into the environment.

• True

• False

Complete the statement. Something is sustainable in absolute terms if it stays within its ________.

The speaker used a cake to illustrate our share when explaining the idea of absolute sustainability. Can you list three key questions that help us determine the size of our portion? Clue: How? Who? How?

Planetary boundary framework simply

• establishes the minimum carbon footprint required for sustainable living

• is a measure of how much resources we can extract from the planet without harming it

• puts numbers on how much we can strain our planet before we reach utter disaster

• defines the maximum population the planet can sustain without degradation