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Sustainability in Everyday Life

Do you want to live a more sustainable life? This course will arm you with the information and skills required to make more sustainable choices everyday!

About this Course
Daily headlines warn of new chemical dangers, species on the edge of extinction, global warming-- framing our planet as “at risk.”

Some people stop listening, others get alarmed, while some others want to learn more in hopes of making a difference in the world. In this course, you will learn how to make more informed choices about your ecological footprint and gain a better understanding of how your choices impact on our world.

This course is organized into five key themes: chemicals, globalization, climate change, food and energy. These five themes represent challenges that people face day-to-day managing choices relating to sustainability.

In this course, you will learn to:

Appreciate the complexity of sustainable development and understand how it relates to everyday life.
Critically evaluate and reflect on the information flow from the public media
Develop cognitive and decision-making skills that can be applied to issues and problems in everyday life.
How to discuss these topics appropriately, and encourage others to make informed decisions regarding sustainable living.
In the final task of this course, you will demonstrate how you have acquired the skills and knowledge to organize your everyday life sustainably.

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One time I took one of those ecological footprint tests and it said that my lifestyle consumes almost 6 Earths. LOL!! Do you think that it's bad that I'm wasteful? I don't know what started me on this whole being wasteful thing. It's just when I moved to that apartment in Farmington I just started leaving the lights, tv, radio, and computer on all of the time. Also I would stay in the shower until the hot water turned cold. It didn't take very long because that hot water heater wasn't very good and it was for two apartments. Now I can stay in the shower longer. LOL! Do you think that being wasteful really causes pollution natural resources to run out and global warming? Do you think that when global warming happens that we will have summer all year long?