Your summer assignment will count as your first test grade. All work should be typed and a copy saved. You will be turning the all portions of this assignment on the second day of school. Have a great summer  !

Part I: Environmental Thinking:

(A) Do some background research on the idea of sustainable cities. Identify two practices we (urban areas) are currently involved in that are not sustainable. How could we modify them to be more sustainable?

(B) Identify what our top five environmental problems are. Describe why/how these situations occur.

(C) Give the basic characteristics of a developed and a developing country. Identify some examples of each.

Part II: Ecological Footprint: use website:

(A) Take the ecological footprint quiz using your current information about your consumption and lifestyle. (a) Print out quiz results to turn in (staple to assignment). (b) Identify what areas your footprint is the heaviest. Give some reasons why. (c) What biome do you use the most? Explain why? (d) How do you compare to the global average?

(B) Write a paragraph comparing and contrasting developed and developing countries. Identify and describe how their ecological footprints differ and why. Give specific examples of these differences using both your footprint and information of a developing country. .

(C)Explain some ways that you could reduce your carbon footprint without interrupting your current standard of living (at least 4).

Part III: People in Environmental History:

For each of the following identify and describe their major works, impact, and or contribution to environmental history. I do not want a cut and pasted paragraph from Wikipedia!! Cite your sources!

Garrett Hardin, Paul Ehrlich, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Rachel Carson, Alice Hamilton, Aldo Leopold, E.O. Wilson, David Suzuki, Edward Abby, Rowland & Molina, Wangari Maathai

Part IV: Environmental Laws:

For each of the following laws or treaties -look up the year it was enacted and give a 2-3 sentence description of its goals. Cite your sources! Do NOT copy and paste.

(1)Clean Air Act, (2) Clean Water Act, (3) Endangered Species Act, (4) CERCLA (superfund), (5)National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), (6) Nuclear Waste Policy Act, (7) FIRFA, (8) Water Quality Act, (9) Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (10) Kyoto Treaty (11) Montreal Protocol

Part V: BOOK REVIEW: COUNTDOWN: Our last, best hope for a future on Earth

By: Alan Weisman

You will keep a reading journal for the book - for each chapter write a one paragraph summary of what you learned using your own words. At the end of the book write a one page critiqueof the book. Include in your critique what chapters you enjoyed the most and why, fascinating statistics you learned, and overall opinion of the book.

Zero credit will be given from plagiarizing online sources.