AA+
Code AA+ on energy labeling of household appliances: green color, where is labeled class A shows the most energy-efficient appliance. In EU countries the label is prescribed by EU Directive 92/75 / EEC.
Related module(s): M4U3.
Accidents
Related module(s): M3U1.
Actions
Related module(s): M3U2, M3U3, M3U6, M2U6, M4U7, M2U7, M3U6
Agriculture
Related module(s): M1U3.
Air Pollution
Related module(s): M1U3.
Biocapacity
Biocapacity is the ecosystems’ capacity to produce biological materials used by people and to absorb waste material generated by humans.
Related module(s): M1U2, M1U3.
Biodiversity
Related module(s): M1U3, M3U1, M6U4, M8U3, M2U1, M6U1.
Biologically Productive Areas
The land and water (both marine and inland waters) area that supports significant photosynthetic activity and the accumulation of biomass used by humans. Non-productive areas as well as marginal areas with patchy vegetation are not included. Biomass that is not of use to humans is also not included. The total biologically productive area on land and water in 2013 was approximately 12 billion hectares.
Related module(s): M2U1, M1U1.
Built-up land
Related module(s): M2U1.
Canning
Related module(s): M6U3.
Carbon Footprint
The total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Related module(s): M1U1, M2U1.
Choices
Related module(s): M7U1.
Circular Economy
Related module(s): M6U2.
Circular economy systems
A continuous positive development cycle that preserves and enhances natural capital, optimises resource yields, and minimises system risks by managing finite stocks and renewable flows. It works effectively at every scale.
Related module(s): M6U2.
Civil Organizations
Climate
Climate is the average weather in a place over many years. While the weather can change in just a few hours, climate takes hundreds, thousands, even millions of years to change.
Related module(s): M1U1 , M8U3.
Climate Awareness
Related module(s): M8U2.
Climate Injustice
The contribution and impacts of climate change experienced unevenly between countrues. The least major usually affected the most.
Related module(s): M1U3.
CO2
Related module(s): M1U1.
Coal
Related module(s): M4U1.
Coast line
Related module(s): M1U3.
Color Rendering Index - Ra
Related module(s): M5U2.
Color Temperature - K
Related module(s): M5U2.
Comforts
Related module(s): M7U1.
Compact Fluorescent Lamp
Related module(s): M5U2.
Company-based purchasing
Related module(s): M7U3.
Conference of the Parties (COP21)
Related module(s): M8U2.
Consequences
Consumer Revolution
Related module(s): M7U1.
Consumption
Related module(s): M7U1.
Cooking
Related module(s): M5U3.
Coral Reefs
Related module(s): M1U3.
Earth's atmosphere
Earth's atmosphere is around 500 kilometers but the bit we are interested in lies within 16 km of the surface. The atmosphere is made up by nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%). There are lots of other gases in smaller amounts. These include argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, hydrogen etc. Oxygen is required by animals for existence and carbon dioxide is used by plants in photosynthesis.
Earth Overshoot Day
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. We maintain this deficit by liquidating stocks of ecological resources and accumulating waste, primarily carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Related module(s): M1U2.
Eco friendly construction
Uses materials and technology which help optimize energy efficiency of a home and reduce its harmful effect on the environment at the same time.
Ecological Deficit
An ecological deficit occurs when the Footprint of a population exceeds the biocapacity of the area available to that population. If there is a regional or national ecological deficit, it means that the region is importing biocapacity through trade or liquidating regional ecological assets, or emitting wastes into a global commons such as the atmosphere.
Related module(s): M2U2, M1U2.
Ecological Reserve
Ecological Reserves are areas with special or endangered ecosystems, features and phenomena for protection, research and education.
Related module(s): M2U3, M1U2, M1U3.
Ecological Footprint
A measure of how much area of biologically productive land and water an individual, population or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates, using prevailing technology and resource management practices. The Ecological Footprint is usually measured in global hectares. Because trade is global, an individual or country’s Footprint includes land or sea from all over the world. Without further specification, Ecological Footprint generally refers to the Ecological Footprint of consumption. Ecological Footprint is often referred to in short form as Footprint. “Ecological Footprint” and “Footprint” are proper nouns and thus should always be capitalized.
Related module(s): M2U1, M2U3.
Energy Efficiency
Related module(s): M4U1.
EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste
Related module(s): M6U2.
EU strategy 2030
Related module(s): M6U2.
European Union
Related module(s): M3U3, M5U1, M8U1, M8U2.
Extraction
Related module(s): M7U2.
FAO
Acronym for Food and Agriculture organization of the United nations established in 1943. Their main mission is to help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition and enable inclusive and efficent agricultural and food system around the world.
Related module(s): M6U2.
Floods
Related module(s): M8U2.
Green Building
(also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to both a structure and the application of processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from planning to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition.
Related module(s): M4U1.
Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect is in effect a thermal multiplier. As various sun heat absorbant gasses (mainly CO2) build in the atmosphere they emit infrared radiation back in towards the surface in an ever increasing rate.
Related module(s):M1U1, M8U1, M8U3.
Glaciers
Related module(s): M1U3.
Global Food Demand
Related module(s): M6U4.
Global Food Security 2030
Related module(s): M6U4.
Materials Efficiency
Related module(s): M4U1.
Meteorology
Related module(s): M1U1.
Methane
Natural methane is found both below ground and under the sea floor. While methane doesn’t linger as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, it is initially far more devastating to the climate because of how effectively it absorbs heat.For this reason, it’s considered a greenhouse gas, like carbon dioxide.
Related module(s): M1U1.
Monoculture
The agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop, plant, or livestock species in a field or farming system at a time. The practice has been criticized for its environmental effects and for putting the food supply chain at risk. Continous monocolture can lead to the quicker buildup of pests and diesies.
Montreal Protocol
Related module(s): M8U2.
Mosquitos
Related module(s): M1U3.
Multinational Enterpizes
Related module(s): M8U2.
Passive house
Is standard for energy efficiency in a building, reducing its ecological footprint. . It results in ultra-low energy builidngs that require little energy for space heating or cooling.
Palm Oil
Related module(s): M7U3.
Personal Actions
Related module(s): M6U3.
Positive Buying
Related module(s): M7U3.
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
Synthetic organic compounds from the group of chlorinated cyclical hydrocarbons. They cause Irritation of the mucous membranes of the throat, nose and eyes, and they are proven carcinogen. Due to its very good technological properties, PCBs are widely used as additives for plastics, production of pesticides and insecticides tre thermal insulation.
Prevention
Related module(s): M8U2.
Production
Related module(s): M7U2.
Public Space
Related module(s): M3U1.
Washing
Related module(s): M5U3.
Waste
Related module(s): M6U1, M6U2, M7U2, M8U3.
Water Efficiency
Related module(s): M4U1, M8U3.
Water Footprint
The water footprint measures the amount of water used to produce each of the goods and services we use. It can be measured for a single process, such as growing rice, for a product, such as a pair of jeans, for the fuel we put in our car, or for an entire multi-national company. The water footprint can also tell us how much water is being consumed by a particular country – or globally – in a specific river basin or from an aquifer.
Related module(s): M2U1, M8U3, M2U1, M8U3, M1U2, M1U3, M1U1.
Water Management
Related module(s): M1U3, M2U1, M2U3, M4U1, M5U3, M6U1.
Water Vapor
Related module(s): M8U1.
Windowpanes
Related module(s): M4U3.
World Population Growth
Related module(s): M2U3.