Ecological and social foot print

Question 1

How is co2 produced?

Answer 1

during the manufacture of products

amount of co2 emitted during a process is called carbon footprint

Question 2

What does an ecological footprint measure ?

Answer 2

it measures the impact of a person life on the natural environment by quantifying the amount of the earth natural resource they use

Question 3

What does ecological footprint measure in terms of land?

Answer 3

measure the area of land and sea needed to supply a persons needs and dispose of their waste

Question 4

What is social footprint?

Answer 4

it is a measure of the impact a company social polices have on its employees ,contractors and society as a whole

Question 5

What obligations do companies have in terms of ecological footprint?

Answer 5

to protect the environment by reducing their ecological footprint AND consider the effect that company polices have on all those affected.

Question 6

Give examples of factors (social footprint)

Answer 6

Are employees being paid a fair wage?

Is there flexible hours policy for parents who need to pick up their children from school?

Question 7

What social issues are there in the design and manufacture of products?

Answer 7

consumers want to know the Provence of their product
so the designers need to know where the material comes from & where it was originally sourced from to see what the conditions are like and then they can be sold as ethically sourced and produced goods

Question 8

What is Health and Safety Executive (HSE)?

Answer 8

organisation which looks after the welfare of employees and enforced the health and safety at work act in 1974

Question 9

What does the HSE make sure employees have?

Answer 9

employees are obliged to provide a safe working environment for all employees and protection for visitors

Question 10

What is fairtrade?

Answer 10

give workers and farmers a fair price for their services and products and to facilitate sustainable trade with other countries

Question 11

What are the ecological issues in design and manufacture?

Answer 11

you have to think about once you have used the earth resource what will happen to it so you have to design products efficiently

Question 12

How do manufactures help reduce the impact of raw materials being harvested?

Answer 12

modern processing techniques are getting more energy efficient
sourcing mineral from sustainable and trustworthy sources

Question 13

What should we do to try stop deforestation?

Answer 13

Once a tree is taken down we should plant another

Question 14

What does the term slash and burn mean?

Answer 14

technique converting virgin forest into farmland

Question 15

What is the process of slash and burn?

Answer 15

1) Tress are felled and set alight

2) ash gives soil nutrients for a short time and crops are grown or cattle is grazed

Question 16

What is the problem with slash and burn?

Answer 16

once the forest is gone it does not forest back
wildlife loses habitat and become extinctic
and rate of extinction increase as forest are destroyed

Question 17

What is the problem with deforestation?

Answer 17

Counties that still have forests view forests as a raw material that can be sold (commodity) and sell it to wealthier nations making the timber be exported and most of its food and animals raised on the new lands

Question 18

What is desertification?

Answer 18

this is when the rainforest becomes diminished and becomes dry and have very little rainfall meaning it can no longer be used to support vegetation

Question 19

Why is mining essential?

Answer 19

to gather the primary materials and minerals required to supply manufacturing

Question 20

What negative effects does undermining have?

Answer 20

Undermining had less of an impact visually dangerous and can lead to instability on the surface causing subsidence and sinkholes

Question 21

What negative effects does surface mining have?

Answer 21

tends to scar the landscape and increase the loss of habitat for wildlife

Question 22

Why does mining produce a lot of co2?

Answer 22

Because the materials are mined transported and proceeded into products

Question 23

Describe drilling

Answer 23

borehole is drilled into earth crust
less dramatic then mining but large storage areas or pipelines are needed to store or transport the fuel to where it needs to be refined

Question 24

What does farming cause?

Answer 24

creates about 15% of greenhouse gases some from crops mainly from livestock
produce food efficiently for a growing population
areas are being used to grow plants that are used to make biofuels

Question 25

What are biofuels?

Answer 25

carbon neutral they absorb co2 will they grow converting it to carbohydrate and water by photosynthesis
co2 releases when biofuel is burned for fuel or compost as biodegradable products when disposed of

Question 26

What is the purpose of Life Cycle Assessment?

Answer 26

companies will use it to estimate their co2 emissions for a product from cradle to grave
and help them ho to reduce total distance travelled

Question 27

Why is it better to buy local produce?

Answer 27

reduces product miles & co2 emissions
support jobs i
increase investments in local economy

Question 28

Why is plastic a problem?

Answer 28

does not degrade for a long time

sea creatures and birds ingest it causing death

Question 29

What cases pollution?

Answer 29

human activity transportation heating and energy production