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Interesting sustainability? Here are some fun facts that will provide you with some helpful information on sustainability. Talks about energy and water, mail documents, recycling and much more can be found on this site.

This website is about the relationship between economic growth, human well-being, and the achievement of a sustainable future has a long and complex intellectual history. It shows us an image of "Sustainable Development", social environmental and economic, and how they connect each other.

The McDonalds corpooration is moving to produce more sustainable beef, but didnt give an actual defintion at first. They worked with a Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) to come up with a definition which is "stable, safe employment for at least the minimum wage where applicable" and institute "where applicable, third-party validation of practices by all members of the value chain."

Its was interesting to read this article especially after reading the in class article that we read. It is nice to see a different said of the story and see that McDonald's is trying to help sustainability.

This article explains myths of sustainability for countries and societies

I like this article because it takes a dynamic look at some unknown sustainability issues and gives a new perspective on sustainability itself.

This article gives a whole new look to what sustainability is and how it is defined when it comes to things such as groceries, and sustainable practices to use.

This article discusses how the City of North Vancouver uses sustainable methods to enhance the quality of life for those living and working in the community.

It was interesting to read the different ways the City of North Vancouver strategies to becoming a more sustainable city. Like Kelsey said they believe this will help their quality of life for those who work and live in that city. It's interesting to read about other countries and how they try to live more sustainable lives within their countries. Thanks for sharing Kelsey!

This article first explains how it can effective to change the school lighting to energy saving light. It then goes on asking questions and concerns that people might have to changing to energy saving lighting. Though this is one step to sustainability it isn't a full step like people often think.

This article talks about different well known colleges using different methods of sustainability. Different colleges have only used food from the local area, composting waste, energy saving techniques through out the college campus, etc. This article goes goes through each college and tells you about how the college has change to become more sustainable.

This article talks about a program that K-12th grade schools can implement through out their school. It gives examples on how this program has already been implemented and changed in schools. It also talks about how the program can be implemented in a school. This program is a great way to teach children and staff different ways to create a sustainable school.

I think that is pretty cool that they have the kids get involoved as well, because like you said it is a great way to teach kids about sustainability and maybe some could even educate their parents. "However, most school districts don't have an award-winning nonprofit to implement a comprehensive Zero Waste program for them." (Schumper & Dietz). This comment made me think, are Zero Waste programs very exspensive if it is not through a non-profit group, and is that why other schoos do not implement this?

This article talks about how much food waste there is and tells us what it takes to sustain a healthy environment.

This article talks about how we can reduce food waste to create a more sustainable environment.

Here are a few tips on how we as consumers can contribute to food sustainability. Even though the article is a European one, does not mean we cannot take some notes.

Why sustainability can benefit everyone, from the employee to the consumer.

I thought this was very interesting. Author Christopher Koetke speaks about the imoprtance of food sustanability, most imoprtantly he mentions that countries around the world are teaching about the importance of food waste. Finally everyone has agreed that food sustainability is a big issue and we have to take action today for the future generations.

This article talks about the myth of having your appliances plugged in and still sucking up your energy, especially older appliances. So it turns out that even though your appliance is turned off, it's still wasting energy because it's plugged in.

On this website there is information on how this company PepsiCo is committed to protecting earth by using natural resources. It also has sections that further explain how to manage packaging waste, water waste, and climate change. 

I think this is a good website, it's informative with the videos and the short information section below them.

This webpage gives us a a lot of information on ways that PepsiCo is being self sufficient to help our eviromental sustainability. This is a really good choice Erick.

This website gives really efficient tips about sustainability not only in terms of food waste, but also how you could save money by doing simple things. So if you want to know what those things are, you should check it out.

There are ten simple thing that everyone can do to help make sure that we can really be sustainable for the future decades to come. In order to do so we need to understand where our food is really coming from, and what power we really do have as a consumer.

This article explains what Environmental Sustainability really is, and how it makes decisions that reduce the business impact in environment. It also talks about business being expected to lead in the area of environmental Sustainability as they are consider the biggest contributors.