1.5. What is sustainability?

Imagine you are trying to explain the concept of sustainability to someone else.  Record your responses in the Lesson 1 Response Form. Please submit your completed response form within this assignment  by October 4, 2014.  

• Write a one paragraph definition of sustainability.
• Explain, in one paragraph, how your understanding about sustainability now has changed from your understanding before, if at all.
• Read either of the following articles and write a third paragraph that explains the concept of the “Tragedy of the Commons” and describe how climate change is a problem related to the global commons.

  • Tragedy of the Commons

    (http://www.planetseed.com/relatedarticle/tragedy-commons)

  • The Climate Change Game  (http://www.nrdc.org/thisgreenlife/0601.asp)