1. Welcome to Sustainability Today is Thursday, January 9, 2014. Please take out your:  journal or binder,  folder, and  reading book. Put away your turned off phone and place your backpacks on the floor. Prepare to take a sustainability pre-test.

2. Sustainability Pretest  Please write your definition of sustainability.  What is the world’s population? How fast is it growing?  List ten needs of an average US citizen.  List ten needs of an average Ghanaian citizen.  How many years at the current rate of consumption will Earth’s amount of coal and oil last?  What body(ies) of water supply Tacoma’s water?  How many gallons of water do you use each day?  How many people can Tacoma’s water source(s) support?

3. Sustainability Pretest Cont. What is:  Intergenerational equity?  Systems thinking?  Biomimicry  Tragedy of the Commons?  Poverty?  What are some of the shared values we all hold?  What are some of the names of indicators and indexes of progress with which you are familiar?  What is globalization?  What is microcredit?  What are human rights?  What are multilateral organizations?  Provide one example of an environmental concern you have.

4. Daily Learning Goals  I will be able to define and identify human needs.  I will understand the concept “intergenerational responsibility.” Progression of Learning  We will identify human needs.  We will read and discuss George Washington’s farewell speech and his advice for the future.  We will discuss the debt of the United States.

5. Human Needs In your journal…. You are a pilgrim who has just landed on a unknown chunk of land. What are your first concerns? How are you going to spend your time? Class share

6. George Washington’s Farewell Speech  Read this excerpt of George Washington’s Farewell Speech and in your journals identify his advice for US citizens and why you feel he advised this.  Class share

7. National Debt  See the website  http://www.usdebtclock.org/ In your journals, reflect on how this makes you feel. Class share

8. Are We Doing Well? Good? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q49NO yJ8fNA Reflect in your journals Class share.

9. Fist to Five  I will can define and identify human needs.  I understand the concept “intergenerational responsibility.”  No homework