Defining Sustainability
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"Defining Sustainability" is a PowerPoint for primary and secondary students that defines and discusses what environmental sustainability is and encourages discussions of how to make transportation and its infrastructure more sustainable. This lesson can be paired with a "Build a Sustainability Tower" activity.
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Defining Sustainability
- 2. Which one is sustainable? Discuss with your neighbor
- 3. What is sustainability? The capacity to endure…
- 4. How do we get to sustainability? Reduce Reuse Recycle
- 5. Sustainability in Transportation? What are some ways we can be more sustainable? How can we reduce? How can we reuse? How can we recycle? Discuss with your neighbor
- 6. Examples…
- 7. Other ways to make transportation more sustainable… Proper signal timing Packing freight vehicles as efficiently as possible Rail Sea Truck No empty trailers Public transportation
- 8. Courtesy of the Complete Streets Coalition 8
- 9. Courtesy of the Complete Streets Coalition 9 Benefits: Capacity
- 10. Courtesy of the Complete Streets Coalition 10 Benefits: Capacity
- 11. Courtesy of the Complete Streets Coalition 11
- 12. Your Job: In your group think of something… at school or at home that you could change to make it more sustainable in the world of transportation that you could change to make it more sustainable How are you going to make it happen???
Editor's Notes
- Who here has heard about sustainability?
- Talk about each one…sustainable in some ways, not in others
- Complete streets can move more people while using the same amount of road space. Getting more productivity out of the existing road and public transportation systems is vital to reducing congestion. Providing travel choices – walking, bicycling, and public transportation – can reduce the demand for peak-hour travel in cars, the principal cause of daily congestion. Combined with the benefits of public transportation access and mixed-use development, modest increases in walking and bicycling could avoid 69 billion miles driven; more substantial increases in travel by walking and bicycling could avoid nearly 200 billion miles driven. (See: Active Transportation for America, Rails to Trails Conservancy) Avoiding these miles driven is a much more cost-effective option than continued expansion of highway infrastructure capacity.Photos: Tampa Tribune
- Complete streets can move more people while using the same amount of road space. Getting more productivity out of the existing road and public transportation systems is vital to reducing congestion. Providing travel choices – walking, bicycling, and public transportation – can reduce the demand for peak-hour travel in cars, the principal cause of daily congestion. Combined with the benefits of public transportation access and mixed-use development, modest increases in walking and bicycling could avoid 69 billion miles driven; more substantial increases in travel by walking and bicycling could avoid nearly 200 billion miles driven. (See: Active Transportation for America, Rails to Trails Conservancy) Avoiding these miles driven is a much more cost-effective option than continued expansion of highway infrastructure capacity.Photos: Tampa Tribune
- Complete streets can move more people while using the same amount of road space. Getting more productivity out of the existing road and public transportation systems is vital to reducing congestion. Providing travel choices – walking, bicycling, and public transportation – can reduce the demand for peak-hour travel in cars, the principal cause of daily congestion. Combined with the benefits of public transportation access and mixed-use development, modest increases in walking and bicycling could avoid 69 billion miles driven; more substantial increases in travel by walking and bicycling could avoid nearly 200 billion miles driven. (See: Active Transportation for America, Rails to Trails Conservancy) Avoiding these miles driven is a much more cost-effective option than continued expansion of highway infrastructure capacity.Photos: Tampa Tribune
- Complete streets can move more people while using the same amount of road space. Getting more productivity out of the existing road and public transportation systems is vital to reducing congestion. Providing travel choices – walking, bicycling, and public transportation – can reduce the demand for peak-hour travel in cars, the principal cause of daily congestion. Combined with the benefits of public transportation access and mixed-use development, modest increases in walking and bicycling could avoid 69 billion miles driven; more substantial increases in travel by walking and bicycling could avoid nearly 200 billion miles driven. (See: Active Transportation for America, Rails to Trails Conservancy) Avoiding these miles driven is a much more cost-effective option than continued expansion of highway infrastructure capacity.Photos: Tampa Tribune