Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Concepts learned

1.sustainability: to keep up or keep going, as an action or process: to sustain a conversation. I think sustainability is trying to save things so we wouldn't go stealing from the poor countries.

2. freegrans: I think freegran is trying to use things that you recycled and make something new out of it. I also thing that it's people trying to find recyclable things that can be use over again.

3. Stewardship: a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.

4. Biomimicry: the copying or imitation of a natural phenomenon's or environment's efficiency and survival mechanisms in manufacturing processes or in applied case-based reasoning.

5. Ecological Footprint:

something which has permanently damaged or had a negative impression the environment; the impact of humans on ecosystems created by their overuse of land, water, and other natural resources.

6. Overshoot: to shoot or go over, beyond, or above. I also think that it is I als think that it means is people or something go to far aand beyond. So that would be my definition.

area x bioproductivity = biocapacity [SUPPLY]Area of farmland times the productivity of the land equals the amount of supply.

population x consumption per person x footprint intensity = ecological footprint: The population of San Diego times the consumption per person times the footprint intensity equals ecological footprint.

1 comment:

Cady said...

Great work, especially on the definitions that you followed up with examples of "I think this means..." That shows that you really thought about the definitions.