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Assignment:
In this journal assignment, you will reflect on personal consumption habits and the role human consumption plays in sustainable development. Consumption refers to the use of resources such as food, water, energy and transportation.
First, for two or three days, observe the consumption habits of your household, workplace, or specific place in your community. By tracking consumption habits for a few days, you will be better prepared to describe what you noticed and explain your discoveries.
Then, use Video Note to record your responses to the prompts below. Video Note is recommended for this assignment, but you may optionally submit your journal as a written document. See specifications in the What to Submit section.
Specifically, you must address the following:
1. Describe personal consumption habits of your household, workplace, or specific space in your community over two or three days.
- How much were resources like water, food, energy, and transportation consumed each day? Use your best estimate when measuring consumption.
- Was more of each resource consumed than necessary?
- How were each of the resources consumed?
2. Explain what you discovered about these consumption habits.
- Are the consumption habits better or worse than you expected? If so, how?
- Did you notice any trends in the consumption habits? If so, what were they?
- How do consumption habits relate to sustainable development as a whole?
3. Describe some changes in human behavior that could reduce consumption or improve sustainability.
- What can be changed now?
- What can be changed over time?
- How can these changes reduce consumption or improve sustainability?
- What are the pros and cons of these changes?
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