I need help with envisioning a sustainable community.
In your assignment, craft a seven-paragraph essay that includes the following:
Paragraph 1
• Describe your home community, (Houston, Texas)
o Discuss at least three of the biggest challenges that your home community faces on
the path to achieving sustainability.
Paragraph 2
• Explain at least three concrete actions that your community might take that would
enhance its ability to sustain local biodiversity and ecosystems.
Paragraph 3
• Discuss at least three specific steps your community might take to improve its
capacity for sustaining local soils and sustainable agriculture.
Paragraph 4
• Describe at least three measures that might be taken by your home community to
help sustain its freshwater resources.
Paragraph 5
• Propose at least three concrete steps your community might take to better sustain
local air quality and reduce negative impact on the global climate.
Paragraph 6
• Discuss at least three specific actions your community might take to manage,
reduce, or eliminate its waste more sustainably.
Paragraph 7
• Identify three specific actions that you might take, at the community level, to help
support sustainability for your home place.
• Considering the strategies that you have shared in your essay, assess whether your
community could achieve sustainability at some point in the future. Why or why not?