Week 1 Assignment: Ecological Footprints, Sustainable Report

WEEK 1 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
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WEEK 1 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
Introduction
Human activities often produce wastes and consume environmental resources. The increase in global consumption and population growth call for strategies aimed at measuring the capacity of nature to meet such demands on the planet. the ecological footprint is regarded as a sustainability indicator. It facilitates researchers to measure the impact of human activities on nature. Particularly, lifestyle trends and choices can either decrease or increase human ecological footprint. This essay provides examples of lifestyle trends and infrastructure/technological trend that increases and decreases our ecological footprint.[“Footprint Basics,” Global Footprint Network, Last Modified April 11, 2016, /en/index.php/GFN/page/footprint_basics_overview/]
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The household lifestyle trends have a huge impact on the environment. Any lifestyle choice determines what is consumed or produced indirectly or directly in terms of waste generation and natural stock. An example of the lifestyle trends that results in an increase in the ecological footprint is the increasing demand for processed food. While low-income populations often consume natural food items, middle- and high-income populations consume packaged and processed foods. The latter increases our ecological footprint because processing of food req...