bay area environment paper

Environmental Sustainability Quick Review

Environmental Sustainability  What is environmental sustainability?

 Ability for humans and the natural environment to exist in productive harmony to meet the needs of both current and future generations.

 In other words, save some for the rest of us!!

 Four Sectors of Sustainability  Energy and Society  Consumption & Consumerism  Risk & Resilience  Waste, Water & Land

Environmental Sustainability  Concept took off starting in the 1970s  Cannot be achieved w/o improving life

conditions of the global majority living in poverty

Environmental Sustainability Three-Sector-Model @ Global Scale  Environmental  Economic  Social

Environmental Sustainability Three-Sector- Model @ Personal Scale  Environmental  Personal  Social

 Economic

The BIG difference between local and global scale

Personal Daily

Choices & Interactions

San Francisco Bay Area The Basics

Bay Area Regional Geography Do we use a different place name for San Francisco?

Physical Geography

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1. Point Reyes

2. Farallon Islands

3. Marin Headlands

4. Half Moon Bay

5. Oakland Hills

6. Mt. Diablo

7. Alcatraz

Others we should know about?

Political Geography - Counties

Political Geography - Cities

Bay Area Transportation Geography - Freeways

Transportation Geography- Bridges

Transportation Geography - BART

Transportation Geography – MUNI

Transportation Geography – Airports

Resource Geography – Water Districts

Map courtesy of SPUR

Geography Review

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Geography Review

Geography Review

Geography Review (water districts)

Map courtesy of SPUR

Homework  Complete Bay Area Map Quiz

 Due Friday by midnight!

Have a good week!!