Objective 1: What is Sustainability?
Sustainability is defined as "The ability to use resources without compromising future generations ability to use that resource at the same rate", but that is very complicated. So we will spend some time becoming more familiar with the concept of sustainability and hopefully producing our own, more simple definition.
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Objective 2: What is Ecological footprint and how can it help us to understand Sustainability?
Ecological footprint is another big and complicated term. In this section we will investigate it and find out the role it plays in helping us to understand sustainability. To help us, we will be calculating out own ecological and carbon footprints to see how much of the world our Hong Kong lifestyle depends upon. During the lesson, you will be asked to use the Carbon footprint website link to calculate your carbon footprint. To put this in context we will look at some other countries for comparison, fill in the worksheet given to you using data that you can find from the Global Eco Footprint website link on the right.
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Objective 3: Where does my food come from?
If we open our refrigerators and kitchen cupboards and read the information on the food items we find, we will discover that our food actually comes from a wide variety of countries. Some of these may be close to home but others are a very long way away. Why does our food have to travel so far and what is the cost of doing this? We will investigate all of these questions in this section. You will analyse the food in one of your meals and attempt to identify the different countries the ingredients of this meal have travelled from. We will then use an online calculator (on the button bellow) to calculate our FOOD MILES and see how much carbon dioxide it takes to get different items of food to our table.
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Objective 4: Understanding the food supply chain
In this section we will explore the journey of coffee beans from being planted by farmers until they are served up by baristas in our favourite coffee shops. Who else is involved along the way? and more importantly, when we buy a cup of coffee, how much money goes to each group of people involved? The truth can be quite surprising and helps us to understand some of the differences between the richer and poorer countries and people of the world. Within this section we will learn about the coffee trade by doing a group role play where we will try and produce a cup of coffee at a competitive price whilst trying to keep all of the people in the coffee chain happy with the money they receive.
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Objective 5: How can we avoid food waste?
For all of the food that we buy, how much of it gets wasted? Do we eat and use it all or does some of it find its way in to the bin? If it does where does it go? Is there a difference in the amount of food waste we produce at home and the waste produced in a restaurant? Does any food get wasted before it even gets to us, just because we buy a certain piece of food or dish? All of these questions will be explored in this section. We will explore the different areas where food can be waste and looks at what happens to it and how it can be a problem. We will also start to look for solutions and look at food waste projects that can help to reduce waste or redistribute food before it is wasted.
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ASSESSMENT!!! Designing a sustainability solution
The assessment notification and project booklet can be found below
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This assessment will test the following 3 criteria
Criteria A: Knowing and Understanding
Criteria B: Investigating
Criteria C: Communicating
In this assessment you will be working as a part of a group and will design your food sustainability project as a group, however you must each complete and submit your own, individual copy of the project booklet