Sustainability At A Local, National And Global Level

A charge on plastic bags cuts their use by most of what was there before in one country and barely moves the number in another. A community forest scheme regenerates a hillside in one valley and is quietly ignored in the next one. Identical ideas, opposite results, and the difference is almost never the idea. It is whether the conditions that idea needs were present, and whether the people who had to change anything were involved in deciding it.

This lesson covers the two things the specification names here: the different methods and approaches to sustainability, with the reasons some succeed and some fail, and the current challenges and opportunities at global and national level and inside your own local area. You will meet eight distinct approaches and the assumption each one rests on, learn seven ways they characteristically fail, and work out which level a school group can actually reach, which matters because your action has to be delivered to a real audience and evaluated against goals you set.