sustainibilty

• Eco system

  A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
• finite

  having limits; lasting for a limited time
• fossil fuels

  Coal, oil, natural gas, and other fuels that are ancient remains of plants and animals.
• renewable energy

  A resource that has a theoretically unlimited supply and is not depleted when used by humans.
• Non-finite

  renewable
• responsible design

  Deciding how to neutralise any negative effects of the product, in the production, use and disposal, and by taking positive action to counteract them. E.g. by planting trees or choosing more environmentally friendly versions of a material.
• waste disposal

  There are three methods of handling solid waste: burying, recycling, and burning.
• ecological footprint


  the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.
• Sustainability

  The ability to keep in existence or maintain. A sustainable ecosystem is one that can be maintained
• Life Cycle Assessment

  Analysis of environmental impacts of products from the design stage through end-of-life.
• continuous improvement

  a commitment to constantly make things better one step at a time
• Efficient Working

  Efficient working aims to remove waste from any process which may manifest itself as wasted time, overproduction, wasted resources including power.
• pollution

  Release of harmful materials into the environment
• global warming

  An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
• impact on the environment

  Plastic microbeads in exfoliating scrubs, body washes and toothpaste

  Not a new idea, but only recently have we found them inside deep sea animals and they are polluting oceans

  Plastics absorb toxins, Fish eat plastics, We eat fish.
• Eco - Friendly Technology

  Old technology combined with new ideas can create excellent new products
• Reducing consumption

  Digitisation and consolidation of many devices in one

  Reading a book, playing a CD and taking a photo can all be done with one device, without requiring any more raw material devices also combine Sat Nav systems, calculators, torches, watches, alarm clocks and more
• renewable energy = comes from unlimited, naturally replenished resources, such as the sun, tides, and wind. 
• non renewable energy = a substance that is used up more quickly than it can replace itself.