A. Define and provide examples of the following concepts:
1. sustainability-to keep up or keep going, as an action or process: [to sustain a T-Shirt, conversation]
2. freegans- someone who lives off of other people's waste and is a vegan
3. stewardship-a person who manages another's property [picks up after another person]
4. biomimicry-imitating life
5. ecological footprint- the footprint [mark we leave on the enviornment from all of our technology and greenhouse gases]
6. overshoot (as it relates to supply and demand-the gap between supply and demand
B. What does this equation mean?-supply and demand
area x bioproductivity = biocapacity [SUPPLY]
population x consumption per person x footprint intensity = ecological footprint
C. What is the significance of the year 1987? The first year where demand was larger than supply
D. What happened on October 6, 2007? We used up all our resources for 2007
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