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Description
This video provides a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. Using cartoon graphics, host Anne Leonard explores the many connections between global economic, environmental, and social issues, and challenges us to create a more sustainable world. By exploring the life cycle of manufactured goods, the video highlights the role that governments and large corporations play in encouraging us to spend and consume at the expense of dwindling resources, environmental degradation and unfair labor practices.
A lesson plan to support the video can be found here.
General Assessment
Recommendation of how and where to use it
This video could be used as an effective introduction to the study of sustainable consumption. It would motivate discussion on the role of government and big corporations in promoting and benefitting from our spending. It could also be used in science class to introduce or summarize outcomes involving energy use, exploiting natural resources and environmental contamination.
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- Alberta
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- Grade 10
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- Social Studies
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- Social Studies 10-1(Perspectives on Globalization) CitizensResponse to Globalization
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- Social Studies 10-2 (Living in a Globalizing World) Globalisation and Sustainable Prosperity
- Social Studies 10-2 (Living in a Globalizing World) Personal Response to Globalization
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science 12: Living sustainably supports the well-being of self, community, and Earth.
- Environmental Science 12: Sustainable land use is essential to meet the needs of a growing population
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- Geographic Issues of the 21st Century: Natural Resources
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- Citizenship and Sustainability: Area of Inquiry: Consumerism
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- Advanced Environmental Science 120: Earth Systems
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Themes Addressed
Citizenship (1)
- Sustainable Consumption
Economics (2)
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Globalization
Human Rights (1)
- Social Justice
Waste Management (1)
- Cradle-to-Cradle
