Importance of Environmental Sustainability

The assignment discusses the importance of environmental sustainability in everyday life, highlighting the significance of recycling, reducing power consumption using LED lights, and promoting eco-friendly practices. It also touches on a personal experience of assisting a green project in school and making efforts to keep a locality clean and hygienic. The document provides references from various books and journals that support the concept of environmental sustainability.

Environment
Sustainability

The concept of sustainability of environment is related with the aspects of our lives. By
developing echo-homes and conscious environmental communities to produce sustainable food
items,renewable energy and clothing. The main objective of environment sustainability is the
conservation of natural resources and create a alternative power of sources that will decrease the
pollution and damage to the environment. This essay will present the past experiences and
challenges that have occurred while dealing with sustainable environment. It will also present the
environment benefits,consequences and issues that are faced with past memories related to
environment sustainable .It will also prepare the children and youth to thinks and opt for
sustainable environment (Sheldon, 2017).
PART-A
This experience took place when I was an assisting Green impact project for my
School .Through this project various attempts were made to bring a positive changes in the
school environment. I noticed that various issues that are related with sustainability are covered
under this project such as waste,energy,travel and biodiversity. Through this project attempts
were made to keep surroundings sustainable by keeping environment clean,recycling of waste
materials and reducing the consumption of power and use of CO 2.Various plans and strategies
were made in the campus for utilizing sustainable practices through seminars and workshops. It
had brought a positive impact on me. I became much more responsible and active towards my
environment cleaning and protection by making use of sustainable practices. By being part of
such impactful project I learned to reduce the use of natural resources and make usage of
environment friendly activities. By making use of sustainable in environment at school it can
have huge impact on plants,animals and people.
The plants can produce crops without depending on toxic pesticides and other degrading
soil practices. For humans it will provide a long term maintenance of well being which will
depend on maintenance of natural world. It will have impact on animals by giving them healthy
and long-lived lifestyle. It will provide a fresh and green surroundings to people and animals. By
being part of such project I want to motivate encourage the young talent and children towards
sustainable environment by plating more of trees,reducing the use of vehicles for short distance
and to conserve water by taking short showers and collecting rain water. One thing that I would
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have differently is that to reduce the power consumption I would have used LED lights in school
situation as it is cost effective and will reduce power.
Recently I visited Australia for my training and there in this locality of Tyrendarra I came
across various environmental issues that was faced like the impact of sewage and waste material
on the environment. The sewage was not properly treated and due to this it can contaminate
water and can be dangerous for wildlife. As the water was getting polluted due to this sewage
and many fishes were killed. So this was a challenging experience as the area was not
economically developed. As the waster materials are not dumped properly it was causing a threat
for plants,animals and human survival residing in that area. So I decided to bring out about a
positive impact by making them aware about sustainable practices that can be used for
environment (Sampson, 2017).
Like by recycling the waste material,reuse and re manufacture it. I planned to organize
various program to give training of and educate people how they can make use of environment
practices for keeping the environment clean and fresh. They can plan more green trees and by
dumping waste properly and recycling and reduce the use of carbon footprint in the environment.
The people, plants and animals were facing major threats sure to this sewage issue as it can be
harmful for their existence. So by making use of sustainable practices it can give them a better
and healthy lifestyle. Through this experience I have learned various methods that can be used to
to kept the locality more secured and protected.
PART-B
By sharing these two experiences with my family,peers ,media and community members
it have motivate and encourage them to use more of sustainable surrounding practices by
meeting the wants of today without compromising the wants of future generations. They got
influenced by these experiences as the concept of sustainable environment would enhance the
living standard of people by securing their health issues,conserve the environment by making use
of efficient resources and will give long term competitiveness. This feedback have helped me
towards the development of better and sustained surrounding that would have a positive
impact on lifestyle of plants,animals and humans on this planet (Lippiatt, 2017).
The environment benefits can be related to decrease in the demand of natural resources
and emission of air pollutants. It will enhance the quality of water and reduce the harmful impact
of change in climate and accumulation of waste materials. Due to these benefits on environment
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it helped to enhance the conservation of natural resources and wildlife. It lead to decrease in
deforestation by planting of more green trees. It have a huge impact on plants,animals and
humans. It had a improved the ecosystem by providing better facilities to animals and plans. The
environment philosophy that I used to believe in Justice theory of environment philosophy that
provide distribution of various good and bad things among human without concern about the
environment.
Various theories use such theories to provide good related to environment and hazards
among people. The second philosophy I used to believe is Holistic theories it is set of
environment theories that enhance the idea of ethics to the value of entire ecosystem beyond that
of their essential parts. By using these philosophy related to the environment my behaviour
changed drastically (Kourula, Pisanin and Kolk, 2017). I now make use of products that can
decrease the burden on the natural resources like rainwater tank set. I prefer to use those
materials that are developed from recycled materials like home supplies made from recycled
plastic.
These philosophy have also lead to reduce of prices by making use of recycling in offices
and schools by printing the paper double side and by motivating the staff to utilize scrap paper
for message taking .Various business have improved by make use of sustainable practices.
Through these experiences my knowledge and awareness about the environment have developed
to a larger extent.
As now I am aware how to protect our environment from the excess use of carbon
footprint,increase in consumption of power,waste not dumped properly etc. These all
circumstances can be dangerous for the survival of species but by making environmental
sustainability the impact of these harmful factors on environment can be reduced by using LED
lights that will reduce power consumption,dumping waster properly or planting more trees and
saving the water and resources for future generation (Goodland , 2017 ).
PART-C
As teachers play a very important role in guiding and development of future of young
talent. And if all these experiences that are discussed above are discusses with the teacher than it
would be a great idea and others will also be able to learn about sustainable practices. Teacher in
schools and colleges can encourage and motivate the students to follow the such practices to
keep our surrounding clean and fresh. Teachers can arrange various programs and seminars for
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children and young talent to make them aware about the importance of environment for the
world. Through these programs and seminars various training must be given to students to
reduce the consumption of power by making use of LED lights and by switching off the lights
when not used. They can also make them aware about the cleanliness of environment by
throwing garbage in the dustbin and by planting more trees to stop deforestation. Various group
activities can be conducted on topics related to surrounding like saving water by collecting rain
water and by taking short showers. They can also make team understand that waste should not be
disposed in water as it may be harmful for the existence of plants,animals and humans. Teachers
can arrange poster competition for students on topics related to environment sustainability so that
students are aware about the importance of environment. Various projects can made by students
related to “Go Green” practices where the students will make use of eco-friendly practices in the
environment. Various lectures can be conducted to reduce the wastage of food by giving the
remaining food to poor people. This way teachers can help the young talent to know about the
advantages of environment sustainability and they an use them in everyday practices to reduce
the harmful impact of environment on future generation (Dangelico,Pujari and Pontrandolfo,
2017).
Summing up the above essay environment sustainability is very essential for preventing
the environment by recycling,reducing consumption of power by using LED. The two
experiences discussed in the essay related to environment sustainability have developed a
positive impact on the environment. The first experience deals with assisting green project in
school. This have made me aware about the importance of healthy and sustain environment for
plants,animals and human. The second description was quite challenging as the locality was not
well developed so various measure have to be taken to keep surrounding hygienic. Teachers can
guide and assist the students to bring about a change in the environment by making them aware
about environment sustainability practices.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Dangelico, R.M., Pujari, D. and Pontrandolfo, P., 2017. Green Product Innovation in
Manufacturing Firms: A Sustainability‐Oriented Dynamic Capability
Perspective. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(4), pp.490-506.
Goodland, R., 2017. S-5043, Environment Department, The World Bank, Washington, DC
20433 Key Words: economic sustainability, development, economic development,
natural capital, growth, limits of growth. Sustainability.
Kourula, A., Pisani, N. and Kolk, A., 2017. Corporate sustainability and inclusive development:
highlights from international business and management research. Current Opinion in
Environmental Sustainability, 24, pp.14-18.
Lippiatt, B.C., 2017. BEES 3.0 Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability:
Technical Manual and User Guide. NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)-6916.
Sampson, R.J., 2017. Urban sustainability in an age of enduring inequalities: Advancing theory
and ecometrics for the 21st-century city. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, p.201614433.
Sheldon, R.A., 2017. The E factor 25 years on: the rise of green chemistry and
sustainability. Green Chemistry, 19(1), pp.18-43.
Silalertruksa, T., Pongpat, P. and Gheewala, S.H., 2017. Life cycle assessment for enhancing
environmental sustainability of sugarcane biorefinery in Thailand. Journal of Cleaner
Production, 140, pp.906-913.
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