Sustainable Living

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Ecology and Chemistry

Chemical Ecology

Species-specific chemicals are large forming factors in community processes.

ex. population dynamics

ex. selective feeding

ex. niche structure

ex. seasonal succession

Helps to understand terrestrial ecosystems.

Chemical ecology studies chemistry and biology to examine the chemical interactions among organisms and their environment.

Communication between individuals

ex. hormone responses

Signaling processes

Ecology and Electricity

Electricity and other energy uses effect the environment.

Renewable energy can help to revers these impacts.

Fossil fuels based electricity creates incredible environmental damage.

Water, air and soil pollution

This directly affects animals and their qualities of life.

Greenhouse gas emissions

What is sustainable living?

Sustainable living means to live with regards for the environment. This is a lifestyle that aims to care and heal the environment and help reverse the damage that humans have caused.

What does sustainable living look like?

Conserving water and eating homemade foods.

Biking and walking more often than driving places. This, and using public transit helps to reduce carbon emissions.

Using less household energy and instead focusing on renewable energies, such as solar power, and using natural resources like sunlight.

Using less plastics and and more renwable materials instead, such as wood, metal, biodegradables

Electricity and Chemistry

Chemistry plays a large contributing role in developing new materials for renewable energy. By being more energy efficient in the chemical processing industries, and by advancing cleaner fuel technologies, chemistry will help meet the Affordable and Clean Energy goal.

Is electricity a chemical reaction?

Electricity is not a chemical reaction, but chemical reactions are used to procure electricity.

Electrochemistry

An area of chemistry that describes the connections between electricity and chemical change. Some chemical reactions produce energy. Small reactions like these can be found in batteries and fuel cells in order to create electric power.

Sustainable Living

Ecology

Ecology is the study of living organisms, including humans, and their relations to their physical environment. Sustainable living and environmental impacts relate directly into every component of ecology.

How sustainable our living is affects physical environment, which affects how animals live in them. Our ways of living describe our relationship with our physical environment and decide how other species interact with their changing environment in order to adapt.

Sustainability is ultimately for the environment.

Ecological Sustainability

Long-lived and healthy forests are examples of sustainable biological systems.

It means to reduce human impacts on the natural environment and people's health to a degree that is manageable and survivable for both the natural environment and humanity.

Ecological sustainability is the conservation of productivity of things like water, soil and the ecosystem.

Ecological sustainability includes everything related to the Earth's ecosystems.

Where electricity and chemistry can be aimed in encouraging sustainable living, the environment sees the con- sequences of how sustainable our living is.

When we try to live more sustainably and take the environment into account, there can be positive effects.

We see life thrive

Less pollution

Less polluted soil

More drinkable water

Less toxic airs

When we don't live sustainably, our ways of living destroy the environment.

Unlivable circumstances

Soil, water and air pollution

Poor air quality

Soil erosion

Habitat destruction

Global warming

Deforestation

Animal extinction

Chemistry

In our chemistry class, we also looked at the production of plastics, their molecular structure and the consequences of their creation and slow biodegradability.

How has sustainable chemistry making a difference?

In the future, through ongoing science and studies, chemistry will be able to break down PET plastics faster, and hopefully find an alternative to petroleum-based plastics.

CFCs are being replaced with naturally occurring CO2 or CO2 byproducts in polystyrene foam sheets.

Producing fuel and other useful chemicals out of wasted gas.

Green Chemistry

Sustainable Chemistry

Green chemistry / sustainable chemistry involves innovating on a molecular level in terms of being more green and sustainable.

The design, manufacture and use of efficient, effective, safe and more environmentally friendly chemical products and processes.

Electricity

Sustainable Sources of Electricity

Renewable Energy Sources

Wave/Tide

Wind and Solar

Geothermal

Biomass

Hydroelectricity

How does Canada generate electricity sustainably?

Wind Power

Wind power is electricity produced by converted kinetic energy from turbines.

Nuclear Power

Nuclear power is created from a process that generates heat by nuclear fission. The consequential steam rotates a turbine that generates electricity.

Hydropower

Hydropower is the use of flowing water to generate electricity.

How do you save electricity to live more sustainably?

Use a Green-e electrical supplier if possible.

Find non-electrical ways to keep yourself cool/warm during extreme temperatures instead of heating the house or turning air conditioning on.

Open the window and use natural daylight as a source of light rather than turning the lights on.

Ensure to turn appliances off or pull the plug so that the currents isn't constantly running.

Use timers and smart heating controls to help regulate electricity usages.