Sustainable living TTO3

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Topic this week: Sustainable living

Vocabulary 

Environmental degradation	Milieu-uitputting
Dispose	Weggooien
Fertilizer	Kunstmest
Pesticides	Bestrijdingsmiddelen
To combat	Ter bestrijding van
Organic farming	Biologische landbouw
Genetic engineering/modification	Genetische modificatie
Depleting	Uitputten
Cultivate	Verbouwen

The space that is needed to produce the food for a single person

1. Ecological footprint
2. Food footprint
3. Carrying capacity
4. Footprint

What is changing in the food industry?

Quite a lot: organic framing, large-scale framing and intensification.

Organic farming

Organic farming uses fewer pesticides and gives animals more space

Large-scale farming

Companies make a lot of the same food. This is the most efficient. 

Intensification

Companies that use knowledge and money for higher yields (opbrengsten). They use a lot of modern technology.

Four examples of dealing with food in a sustainable way

1. Throw away less
2. Save space by building food factories 
   
3. Organic farming
4. Genetic engineering
   

Sustainable food production

Producing food:

• Without depleting the land
• Without depleting natural resources


• Without polluting the environment
• Without environmental degradation 

1. Throw away less

2: Food factories

• Saving space
• Better use of light
• More efficient use of water

''Sla-flat''

Will your lettuce come from a ''sla-flat''?

Food factories

Saving space by building 

food factories

3: Organic farming

• Less or no pesticides
  
• Less or no fertilizers 
• The animals have more space

What is a disadvantage of organic farming?

Non-organic farming

Many animals per hectare

Poor living conditions for the animals

Organic farming

Fewer animals per hectare

Better living conditions for the animals

4. Genetic engineering

Modifying crops so that they can cope better with drought and diseases

Learning goals

• You know how you can produce more sustainable food.
• You understand why more and more space is needed to grow food and in what ways we can deal with food in a more sustainable way.

Life span (levensloop) 

• life time of a product
• cradle to cradle
• Recycling

Cradle-to-cradle

cradle-to-cradle – Letterlijk: van wieg tot wieg; producten kunnen na gebruik worden hergebruikt in een nieuw product of kunnen als grondstof dienen.

Recycling

• How we take trash and transform it into new products
• Not everything can be recycled ( too expensive, cost too much energy

In the future..

• Population growth and increase in prosperity 
• 2050: 70% more food is needed
  
• How can we do this without causing environmental degradation? 
  

Environmental degradation

Running out of natural resources by means of human use

Sustainable food production

Growing enough food without depleting the nature

Cradle to cradle

• Cradle to  cradle = Van wieg tot wieg
• A product is designed so that its materials can be repurposed or recycled 

Planning 

• Finish assignments 
• Complete notes
• Be sure you finish the gapped summaries
• Test week 48