Four Sustainability Principles
July 6,2010
List the four principles of sustainability and discuss.
Reliance on Solar Energy: the sun warms the planet and supports photosynthesis used by plants to provide for us and other animals.
Biodiversity: a great variety of genes, species, ecosystems, and ecological processes have provided many ways to adapt to changing environmental conditions throughout the 3.7-billion-year history of life on the earth.
Population Control: competition for limited resources among n species places a limit on how much any one population can grow beyond those limits, its size decreases from changes in the birth rates and death rates of its members. In nature, no population can grow indefinitely.
Nutrient Recycling: natural processes recycle
List the four principles of sustainability and discuss.
Reliance on Solar Energy: the sun warms the planet and supports photosynthesis used by plants to provide for us and other animals.
Biodiversity: a great variety of genes, species, ecosystems, and ecological processes have provided many ways to adapt to changing environmental conditions throughout the 3.7-billion-year history of life on the earth.
Population Control: competition for limited resources among n species places a limit on how much any one population can grow beyond those limits, its size decreases from changes in the birth rates and death rates of its members. In nature, no population can grow indefinitely.
Nutrient Recycling: natural processes recycle