Sustainability Management Plan and Sustainable Practices for Children

RUNNING HEAD: SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES
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Question 1
Sustainability Management Plan
Sustainability management becomes an important concept in the current situation. Sustainability
is defined as the meeting the current needs of individuals without compromising with the future
needs or it simply means satisfying wants of all the people with the limited use of natural
resources (Young & Elliott, 2014). A sustainability management plan in service includes
following steps identifying the issues related to sustainability, setting up of objectives,
developing an action plan to achieve those objectives and then implementing all the changes and
at last monitoring or evaluating the progress. The aspects of sustainability include people, planet
and profit. Every activity requires use natural resources, every aspect of life depend on nature as
nature is giver and humans are the takers. The sustainable management plan comprises of
understanding environmental issues and then identifying areas that needed to be changed. Here
educating children about these issues is essential and it is their responsibility to practice
sustainability and manage nature and natural resources (Davis, 2015). The first step in the
sustainability management plan is to know or find the areas that need improvement.
Service aspect
Nature  Constructed a garden with parents and children involvement
 A cubby house constructed from bamboo
 Use of worm farm
Waste  Increased reuse and resourcefulness
 Papermaking activities with children by using shredded office papers
 Implemented concept of reduce reuse recycle
 Green Bin used for garden organic
Energy  Ensure using of natural lights and ventilation
 Using efficient light globes
 Audit on all the electronic appliances to reduce the consumption of energy
Toxins  Using eco-friendly products
 Replaced use of toxins with other things

Current sustainable policies in above-mentioned services aspects are discussed and for that
policies and procedures are framed that include regular meeting with stakeholders to aware them
about the issues and to develop new ideas about sustainable practices in nature, energy, waste,
and toxins. Others ways can also be implemented in these areas to increase children involvement.
Some strategies that can be used in order to reduce the effect of these environmental issues with
the help of children are gardening, planting, recycling activities, promoting activities that ensure
reuse of material/Another way to increase the connection of children with nature is to provide
knowledge through mentoring and coaching so that children learned at the right time and ensure
sustainability practices at the right time.
Question 2
Sustainable Practices for children
Practicing sustainability from early childhood is essential and should be considered as part of the
curriculum and surely incorporated into every service setting. The ways to promote sustainability
includes creating a natural environment and proving natural material (McCrea, 2015). The
strategies that can be used to promote suitable education for children are discussed below.
 Sustainability education should be given to children by sharing sustainable practices
information with them such as the use of water, energy, and land that are scarce
resources.
 Conduct sustainability programs in the schools that can be recycling program, gardening
activities, and involve children to develop new ways to recycle materials.
 Teach children about the concept of reduce, reuse and recycle through stories and role
model
 Sustainable practices can be implemented in the service sector by formulating policies to
promote environmental sustainability like environmental audit in the sustainable areas
that can be the use of water, use of energy, water management, use of chemicals and
natural environment.
 Children should be aware of all the areas and should know the sustainability issues for
that educator should show the movies or clips that include the situation of people at
drought-affected areas, the importance of natural environment etc.