Environmental Factors

For this assignment, you are responsible for identifying 3 Environmental Factors that are being influenced by humans and generate a system, whereby we could apply the three themes of the course (sustainability, stewardship, and science).

In identifying factors you must breakdown the sections as follow:

Factor 1 (Example)

Description of the factor (Air Pollution describe the topic, what is air composed of, and what air pollution represents, what would the impact be of having air pollution)

Description of human role (What are we doing to change the natural composition of air, both positive and negative roles)

Methods to reduce the damages and recover from damages already done (you need to use only tangible and existing technologies and methods. You can combine multiple systems to make them work better, but you cannot invent your own. Any idea that you are implementing must be researched, such that you can refer to other work where this may already be working and or ways of making the system better.

This should be repeated for all three factors.

You must have transition paragraphs that reduce rough changes between your main ideas. At the end of your paper, you must have an amalgamating paragraph(s)which put everything together.

Envision your role on this paper as a policy maker, struggling to pass a few changes that will be voted on by the people and not congress. You must convince everyone that change is necessary and that your plan is not only doable but it will not cost the people much.

A good way to approach your changes, are to describe in depth your 3 Environmental Factors and describe any other potential ways in which your change can also improve our quality of life in other ways. For example, if you restrict driving during peak time to 50% occupancy in personal vehicles, this will not only reduce air emissions, but it can potentially reduce traffic, commute times, accidents, and consumption of fossil fuels. You can extrapolate your ideas to encompass much more than the scope of your three factors.