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Week 10 Overview

Module 10: Environmental Wellness

Introductions

This discussion is going to shift the focus from your personal health to thinking about how our choices affect
our planet and the lives of others.

Outcomes

Identify which behaviors use environmental resources.

Estimate and examine your personal resource usage.

Discuss strategies that would use less environmental resources.

Discuss the significance of resource conservation.

Checklist

Complete this Household Carbon Footprint Calculator at the EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) website: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/ind-calculator.html

1. Select and view a documentary style movie about the environment. Choose a full-length movie rather than a short You-Tube clip that examines an aspect of the environment. Some examples include: food, the food system, energy use, bottled water, water pollution, waste systems and climate change. Search using terms like, “environmental documentaries”.

2. Discover ways you could lower your score on the quiz and impact the environment. The Wellness Workbook, on pages 25-26 and page 117, provides some information and ideas for lowering scores. In addition, you may search for websites that are focused on ways to reduce your carbon footprint.