Posted: September 16th, 2017

being a responsible consumer

Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources and Energy
SCI221  week 7
Assignment 7: Being a Responsible Consumer
We can all help protect the environment by becoming responsible consumers and supporting businesses that follow environmentally friendly policies. If you watch TV, you may notice an increase in television commercials that emphasize environmentally conscious decisions by manufacturers in terms of “going green.” New government policies are also starting to mandate more environmentally conscious practices such as reducing car emissions, creating and incorporating products that promote energy conservation, and investing in renewable energy sources to reduce consumption of fossil fuels.
In this Assignment, you will consider what your role is and can be in becoming a responsible consumer to help support the environment and the sustainability of future generations.
Questions about this assignment? Post them in the Ask the Instructor area under Course Home. That way, everyone in the class will see, and benefit from, the Instructor’s response.
To prepare for this Assignment:
•    Use your favorite search engine to research three websites that deal with environmentally friendly and ethical businesses.
•    On these sites, determine what businesses on a local, national, or international level you already know of or recognize that follow environmentally friendly practices, what those practices are, and how they improve the environment.
•    Reflect on how you are already a responsible consumer or how you could become a responsible consumer by supporting these businesses.
The assignment:
Compose a 2- to 3-page paper in includes the following:
•    A list of the environmentally friendly businesses you support with descriptions of what they do specifically to help reduce their impact on the environment
•    A list of at least three changes you can make in your daily routine to become a more responsible consumer. How easy or difficult might it be to make these changes? What impact would your changes make on the environment or on society?
•    Based on all you have studied over the past 7 weeks, a description of two or three of the most important aspects of environmental biology that may impact you. How do these aspects affect you? Do you think you will change any of your current routines as a result of what you have learned?