Sustainable Victoria is a government initiative. It aims to achieve a vibrant and ecological future by improving the way Victorian’s manage their day to day lives. This organisation strives to work together with Victorian citizens, providing ideas and means of cost-efficient and environmentally friendly alternatives to the lives of all, in order to tackle issues of climate change, protect the environment and global warming. As such, Victorians are urged to maintain and practice ways of sustainability through reducing business and household costs, waste management, and where waste cannot be avoided, to REDUCE – REUSE – RECYCLE. In an attempt to assist households in contributing to the protection of the environment, the Victorian Government is aiming to increase the value of resources, to further ensure a liveable, stable and prosperous future for the people and state of Victoria.
As the population of Victoria is rapidly growing, with an approximate and anticipated population growth of 8.9 million people by 2043, the Victorian government has integrated the waste management approach. This approach has been integrated into the lives
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Reducing and altering one’s energy consumption, and more broadly, saving resources of energy, is a key factor in ensuring that this world is kept and maintained liveable for future generations. By incorporating energy consumption methods in our daily lives, sustainable urbanisation will be achieved and our community will be ever more environmentally friendly. The practical methods and first step measures households should take in reducing their energy consumption, is by utilising energy smart principles and renewable energy resources. These have become easily accessible and affordable for many as the government continues to emphasise the importance of sustaining our environment and the importance of people being conscious of energy expenditure from
Instilling this new way of energy usage into off-grid communities will inevitably increase the state of living for those in cities and other well-populated areas. The change to renewable energy sources could drastically lower the pollutants currently being dispersed into the atmosphere by coal mines and other harmful power options, increasing the supply of renewable energy would allow us to replace carbon-intensive energy sources and significantly reduce U.S. global warming emissions. a 25 percent by 2025 national renewable electricity standard would lower power plant CO2 emissions 277 million metric tons annually by 2025—the equivalent of the annual output from 70 typical (600 MW) new coal plants (“Benefits of Renewable Energy Use”). Electricity production accounts for more than one-third of U.S. global warming emissions, with the majority generated by coal-fired power plants.
The ABC aims to scale back energy and water consumption and waste. This involves supporting a spread of initiatives to implement additional sustainable systems and processes as well as to alter workplace behaviour. Energy and emissions
Introduction: The company I researched was Aramark, which is a food, facilities, and uniform services provider, headquartered in Philadelphia. With 270,000 employees Aramark has operations in 19 countries around the world and ranks 207 on the 2018 Fortune 1000. Globally, it provides services for numerous big events and also to public sports arenas, schools, hospitals, corporate workplaces, and other venues. On average, the company serves 2 billion meals annually and it sold 4 million uniforms in 2017. A quick look at Aramark’s website proves that the company takes its responsibility to its employees and the environment very seriously.
Our Common Future (1987 Report to the UN General Assembly by the World Commission on Environment and Development) defined 'sustainable development' as 'development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs'. Much of Australia's domestic environmental policy on sustainable development reflects the influence of Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21. Sustainable development must be considered on the scale of the ecosystem, which may be regional or
Introduction Climate change can be observed globally at a progressively alarming rate. The most visible changes can be seen in the global average temperature whereby the Arctic warming is at almost double the global average rate (CITE). Observed changes in temperature have been consistent with the general warming trend - hot days and hot nights have been occurring more frequently and cooler nights are occurring less often. There is major evidence that climate change is human-induced/anthropogenic from the increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since the industrial revolution (CITE). The increase in the atmospheric CO2 concentration by 40% is a result of burning fossil fuels and deforestation (CITE).
As such, Australia recognizes there is an urgent need to place a large focus on building an ability to recover by better integrating sustainability goals into urban development. The United Nations has provided a set of 17 sustainability goals, some of which Australia believes are highly important in taking into consideration in urban development. These goals include ensuring availability and sustainable management of water
With the increasing population, a continuing trend is expected whereby people will be residing in urban areas (around 93% by 2050). This will have a lingering impact on the Australian environment as it will continue to see the loss of biodiversity, limited water supply and threats to food security. To deal with the challenge of rising population, planners must consider sustainability in their planning activities because they need to be able to create adaptable sustainable communities. The purpose of sustainable communities is about building areas where the public can have good health and quality of life. Sustainable Community can be helped to succeed by not impacting the environmental and cultural resources that assist
As stated above,this feedback loop is the major contributing factor for global warming that modern scientific community has agreed on its existence. Since our reliance on electricity has lasted for centuries now and has provided economic freedom it is nearly impossible to stop its usage all at once. Adopting smart and generous tecniques at home and every installations that uses electricity for day to day living will eliminate most of the problems that are addressed here. Following are some of the smart ways to minimize its usage. • Using self-generated electricity utilizing renewable sources of earth-solar energy and small wind turbines.
Climate change creates significant impacts in the Australian context, and communities are severely vulnerable to the impacts. Australia has warmed by 0.9 centigrade mostly since 1950s. Further, during the period climate related conditions have been changed; for instance, reduction of cooler season, increase frequency of hot days, changes in extreme weather events and rising of sea level. In this context, communities in the coastal areas, low-ling areas, marginalized lands and hazard prone area are in high vulnerability (Australian Government, 2015).
Citizens of the developed world have come accustomed to a comfortable way of life. In recent history, humanity has become aware of the consequences of this way of life in terms of its physical impact on planet Earth, and in terms of its social impacts on generations to come. The notion that our species is having a negative impact on the world has raised concern as to whether human life will be able to indefinitely enjoy the comfortable way of life experienced by those in developed countries. Alarmingly, Earth’s population continues to grow, and more citizens are continually able to access the unsustainable ways of the current generation. According to Robert Engelman, the president of the The Worldwatch Institute, the future energy and food
“To truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy.”-- Barack Obama. As the negative effects of traditional energy and the benefits of sustainable energy are becoming more and more apparent, the whole society has a significant increasing emphasis to develop and use sustainable energy. As Barack Obama said in the Address to Joint Session of Congress, the benefits of sustainable energy include, but are not limited to the economy, the environment, and the nation security.
Victoria is one of the most urbanised states in Australia. However, cigarette butt litter is a major issue in Victoria. This is a research about Sustainability Victoria’s “Don’t Be a Tosser, Bin Your Butts” campaign organised by The Reputation Group (TGR) from February to September 2007. “Don’t Be a Tosser, Bin Your Butts” is a cigarette butt litter awareness and behavioural change campaign. The intention was to urge smokers to bin their butts. It was a successful campaign as it has exceeded its objectives and showed positive results.
Household energy conservation is a very practical and realistic approach to conserving energy within our society. US households consume a tremendous amount of natural gas as well as electric energy. It has been calculated that the amount of energy consumed within the US increased exponentially from about 1850 to 1975. If energy continued to increase at this rate, we would be experiencing severe energy shortages in our current society. Luckily, steps towards conservation, including various energy regulations, have curbed that growth somewhat, brining the predicted 160 Qbtu/yr for the year 2000 down to around 93.8 Qbtu/yr by the year 1996. However, household energy usage is still a major issue as households consume about 38% of the total consumed energy and contribute greatly to natural gas consumption and issues such as global warming. Therefore, it is important that people understand how we use energy in the household and what steps can be taken to conserve that energy.
America and Europe are at the top of the list for most waste generated according to Waste (4). This is very visible because there’s litter on every street in the towns and cities, as well in lakes, beaches, and rivers. The book Waste by Rob Bowden states that the amount of waste produced is increasing at a rate faster than population growth. About 1.5 million computers, in the U.K, are thrown away each year and most end up in landfills. There are 3 types of waste which are Municipal Solid Waste, Industrial Waste, and Hazardous waste. MSW includes waste from public garbage cans and local dumpsters. Industrial Waste includes massive amounts of waste water that is contaminated with chemicals. Hazardous waste is the most dangerous as it presents a danger to human health and the environment. Solutions for waste disposal take time because people need to consider their lifestyle and limit the amount of waste they generate. A good start is to recycle items such as paper, cans, plastic, and clothes. This way they don’t end up in landfills, beaches, or streets. Another solution is to join organizations that go around places to recycle, or organizations that demand the reduction in the amount of products that are being
The United Nations recently published a list of goals they hope to accomplish by 2030 called the Sustainable Development Goals. These goals will replace the Millennium Development Goals, which were set in 2000, when they expire at the end of 2015. Some of these goals include ending poverty, promoting gender equality, and improving water and sanitation conditions. Arguably, the most important goal is to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture” (in text citation- NY Times Article). Hunger was also an important goal on the MDG list, yet it was not fully accomplished (in text citation- Progress chart). The goals was to reduce hunger by half, and yet, the number of people who go to bed hungry