Social
Social Aspects of Sustainability
Often not discussed enough is the social aspect of sustainability. What is the social aspect of sustainability? Well is the human part of sustainability. For example, how trees impact air quality helping human health, or How cheap labor causes unsustainable lifestyles and harms humans. In short, this aspect is about connecting the gap between environmental impacts and social justice/human issues.
Videos
The Life Cycle of A T-Shirt
Consider the classic white t-shirt. Annually, we sell and buy 2 billion t-shirts globally, making it one of the most common garments in the world. But how and where is the average t-shirt made, and what’s its environmental impact? Well we are about to find out. Join Angel Chang as she shows you the life cycle of a T-shirt.
What's In Your Smartphone
If we broke open all the newest phones and split them into their component parts, that would produce around 85,000 kg of gold, 875,000 of silver, and 40,000,000 of copper. How did this precious metal get into our phones--and can we reclaim it? Well to find out join Kim Preshoff's investigation on the sustainability of phone production.
Games
Natural disasters can result in loss of life, damage to the economy, and destroy habitats and food webs. All of those things are important to sustainability, especially the social aspect of sustainability. And in this game, you have the job of sustainably working with the environment and making these areas that people live safe. So get to work and press launch game, learn to play by pressing game objective then pick your disaster.
Take Action
Just because you can't leave your home doesn't mean you can't help people. Click the virtual button above and find out all the ways you can volunteer from home and engage in the social aspect of sustainability by helping people.
So you wanna, get out and find ways to help people and engage in the social aspect of sustainability. Click on the button above and see how you can sustainably help during covid.