Sustainability

What is sustainability and what does it mean? Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment.  Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations.

“In the Australian Curriculum: Science the priority of sustainability provides authentic contexts for exploring, investigating and understanding chemical, biological, physical and Earth and space systems. The Australian Curriculum: Science explores a wide range of systems that operate at different time and spatial scales. By investigating the relationships between systems and system components and how systems respond to change, students develop an appreciation for the interconnectedness of Earth’s biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Relationships including cycles and cause and effect are explored, and students develop observation and analysis skills to examine these relationships in the world around them” (Acara, n.d).

“In this learning area, students appreciate that science provides the basis for decision making in many areas of society and that these decisions can impact on the Earth system. They understand the importance of using science to predict possible effects of human and other activity and to develop management plans or alternative technologies that minimise these effects” (Acara, n.d).

                                                                     

                                                                  Reference

Australian curriculum. (n.d.). Aboriginal and torres strait islanders histories and cultures. Retrieved 10 April 2013 from
              http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/CrossCurriculumPriorities/Aboriginal-and-Torres-Strait-Islander-histories-and-cultures

Rethink. (2013). Municipal sustain ability indicators. Retrieved 24 April 2013 from
             http://www.rethink-group.com/wordpress-rethink-site/wp-content/uploads/Sustainability-3-Es.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x21Mex9ZVs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwHq0lWhoH0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9I3Q6-ZSTI