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Week 4 – Assignment 2

Sustainable Living Guide Contributions, Part 4 of 4: Sustaining Our Atmosphere and Climate

[WLOs: 1, 2] [CLOs: 3, 4, 5, 6]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review Chapters 6, 7, and 8 in Turk and Bensel’s Contemporary Environmental Issues textbook (2014).

The purpose of this assignment is twofold: first, to enable you to explore a term (concept, technique, place, etc.) related to this week’s theme of sustaining atmosphere and climate; 2) second, to provide your fourth contribution to a collective project, the Class Sustainable Living Guide. Your work this week, will be gathered (along with that of your peers) into a master document you will receive a few days after the end of the course. The document will provide everyone with a variety of ideas for how we can all live more sustainably in our homes and communities.

To complete this assignment,

  • You will first need to select a term from the list of choices in the . Reply to the forum with the term that you would like to research. Do not select a term that a classmate has already chosen. No two students will be researching the same topic.
  • Next, download the and replace the guiding text with your own words based upon your online research. Please do not include a cover page. All references, however, should be cited in your work and listed at the end, following APA format expectations.

In the template, you will

  • Define the term thoroughly.
  • Clearly relate the term to the week’s theme.
  • Explain how the term affects living things and the physical world.
  • Relate the term to the challenge of achieving environmental sustainability.
  • Justify if the term represents an obstacle to that goal, or perhaps a technique or technology that might promote it.
  • Suggest two specific actions we can take to promote sustainability in relationship to this term.
  • Provide detailed examples to support your ideas.

The Week 4 Assignment

  • Must be three paragraphs in length (not including title, quoted text, and references) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s .
  • Must cite at the following three sources at minimum:
    • The class textbook, or provide a URL formatted according to APA standards to the resource in case your term was not in the text.
    • A scholarly source.
    • A credible source.
    • To aid you in your research, and particularly in locating scholarly sources via the Ashford Library or using Google Scholar, please review the following Ashford videos and tutorials:
      • Accessing Full Text and Citation in
  • Must utilize academic voice. See the resource for additional guidance.
    • The table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
  • Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s .
  • Must include a separate references list that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.