Sustainability 1

What does environmental sustainability mean to you?

• Recycling

• Saving water and Saving electricity

• Not wasting food and recycling

• Thinking about how we treat our natural environment today will affect people in the future

• Regularly purchasing

Which environmental action is the most urgent? Order these eight actions (A–H) from most urgent (1) to least urgent (8)

A use renewable energy not fossil fuels

B reduce pollution

C change the way we produce food

D clean up our oceans

E manage the waste we create

F stop the destruction of forests

G make sure there is enough water

H protect nature and wildlife

• 1 reduce pollution

  2 manage the waste we create

  3 stop the destruction of forests

  4 make sure there is enough water

  5 change the way we produce food

  6 protect nature and wildlife

  7 clean up our oceans

  8 use renewable energy not fossil fuels

• 1 The destruction of our forests

  2 Loss of nature and wildlife

  3 Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy 4 Making sure there is enough water

  5 Changing the ways we produce food

  6 Managing all the waste we are creating

  7 Cleaning up our oceans

  8 Stopping pollution

• 1 manage the waste we create

  2 stop the destruction of forests

  3 make sure there is enough water

  4 protect nature and wildlife

  5 change the way we produce food

  6 clean up our oceans

  7 use renewable energy not fossil fuels

  8 reduce pollution

Who can make the most difference in restoring and protecting our environment?

Rank the entities in the picture from 1 to 5, with 1 being the most responsible and 5 being the least responsible.

• 1- People

  2-UN

  3-Schools

  4-Businesses

• 1- People

  2-Schools

  3-UN

  4-Businesses

• 1- Businesses

  2-People

  3-Schools

  4- UN

• 1. 1- UN

  2. 2- People

  3. 3- Governments

  4. 4- Schools

  5. 5- Businesses

Do you and your family live a sustainable life?

What kind of things do you do to be sustainable?

• Recycling including buying used items instead of new

• Saving water and saving electricity

• Reducing plastic

• Not wasting food

• Reusing

Have you heard about any local or national environmental initiatives?

Have you ever taken part in any of the initiatives below?

Choose which one(s)

• Earth Hour

• World Earth Day

• World Oceans Day

Do you know what these are?

Would you like to join a sustainability youth programme?