1. Bell work - 5 minutes
Q: Was using a cost/benefit analysis helpful in making your decision about the dam? Why or why not? A:
Check the calendar and write in your planner
Saturday School this weekend 9-12
Title of notes: Sustainability Triangle

2. understand how different situations impact sustainability.
Learning target
I can list and describe the three parts of the sustainability triangle.
Today I am…
looking at the SD/TJ water case to apply the sustainability triangle to this situation.
So that I’ll be able to…
understand how different situations impact sustainability.
I’ll know I’ve got it when…
I can complete all questions and list and describe the three parts of the sustainability triangle.

3. Essential question in Environmental Science
How can we best balance our own interests and needs with the health of the environment?
This is sustainability!

4. Why consider sustainability?
World decision makers face traditional issues (such as economic inactivity, poverty, hunger, and illness), as well as new challenges (like environmental damage and globalization).

5. Sustainability triangle
Environmental
Economic
Social
Economic: Growth, stability, productivity
Environmental: Resilience, natural resources, pollution, biodiversity
Social: Relationships, local culture

6. Economics side of the triangle
The economy domain is leans towards improving human welfare, primarily through increases in the consumption of goods and services.

7. Environmental side of the triangle
The environmental domain focuses on protection of the integrity and resilience of ecological systems.

8. Social side of the triangle
The social domain focuses on the improvement of human relationships and achievement of individuals.

9. Video on Sustainability (12 mins)
Write down 2 facts from the video in your notes.

10. Reading
Pg. 28 – 29 (Easter Island)

11. Group discussion
The goal of Env. Science is to help us understand how our actions affect the environment.
What could the people of Easter Island have done differently to avoid what happened?

12. Sustainability Foldable Pg. 11 LS
A lake in your neighborhood has been closed due to pollution. This lake is well known by the fisherman because of the large bass that have been caught in this lake. Every month there is a fishing competition at this lake, but because of the pollution the competition has been cancelled. Fisherman pay good money to be able to fish on this lake.
Name the Lake and put it on the front of your foldable
Create a sustainability triangle foldable about this lake.
Must have color.
Example on the next two slides