Sustainable Living

Electricity

How do you save electricity to live
more sustainably?

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

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

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

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

Use a Green-e electrical supplier if possible.

How does Canada generate
electricity sustainably?

Hydropower

Hydropower is the use of flowing water to
generate electricity.

Nuclear Power

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

Wind Power

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

Sustainable Sources of
Electricity

Renewable Energy
Sources

Hydroelectricity

Biomass

Geothermal

Wind and Solar

Wave/Tide

Chemistry

Sustainable Chemistry

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

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

Green Chemistry

How has sustainable chemistry
making a difference?

Producing fuel and other useful chemicals out of
wasted gas.

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

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.

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

Ecology

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

Animal extinction

Deforestation

Global warming

Habitat destruction

Soil erosion

Poor air quality

Soil, water and
air pollution

Unlivable circumstances

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

Less pollution

Less toxic airs

More drinkable water

Less polluted soil

We see life thrive

Ecological Sustainability

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

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

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.

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

Sustainability is ultimately for the environment.

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.

Electricity and Chemistry

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.

Is electricity a chemical reaction?

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

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.

What is sustainable living?

What does
sustainable
living look
like?

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

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

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

Conserving water and eating homemade
foods.