Compost Week 2021 Question: What Percentage of food goes to waste? This question is appropriate because this is International Composting Week, May 2-8, 2021, with a theme: Grow, Eat…COMPOST…Repeat. Some foods don’t make it out of the fields. Potatoes, corn, and tomatoes that are too small, or too ugly, may be left behind in the fields. In some cased, the farmers announce that the edible, but ugly, food is available for gleaning – all you have to…
Earth Day 2021 Quiz (April 22, 2021) Test your knowledge of a few Earth related topics on Earth Day. Note that when you Google some of these topics, you can get rather wide ranges of answers. Make sure you are looking at the US (if that is the target region), rather current information, and rather reliable sources. Or, just wait a day to see what we think the correct answer should be. Answers will…
World Water Day 2021 (in the rear-view mirror): Valuing Water. World Water Day (March 22, 2021) is past (www.WorldWaterDay.org)… By now you should have taken the Water Day Quiz at SustainZine. It’s been about 10 years since I developed such a quiz. I had to work to improve and update the original quiz… It is still tricky to get good answers to some of these water-critical issues. Often the water usage is available to the…
World Water Day 2021 (March 22) Quiz Name/Team: ____________ (See SustainZine blog post related to this quiz and World Water Day.) 1. Approximately what percentage of the adult human body is water (H2O)? a. 10-15% b. 20-30% c. 40-50% d. 55-65% 2. All of the following are primary water-related causes of death world-wide except: a. Diarrheab. Malariac. Dehydration d. Driving into bodies of water while texting 3. A gallon of DeLand city tap water costs…
It’s World Water Day, March 22, 2021 (www.WorldWaterDay.org). Time to test your water knowledge with a World Water Day Quiz. Some days we wish it would rain. Some days, we wish it would stop. But every day, not just March 22, we should stop and appreciate the importance of water. How important it is to out our being, to our lives, to our living and to our existence. Here is my Water Quiz for…
The SustainZine has been blogging (although rather sporadically) for 11 years. Wow!. One of the first blogs was related to an article (and a SAM presentation) by Hall, Tayler, Zapalski and Hall (2009). It focused on sustainability in Higher ED, specifically on how the facilities of universities were doing sustainability initiatives but there were few actual classes on Sustainability. The classroom, i.e., the future of sustainability was far behind. Later in 2010 Hall (2010) published…
