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Sustainability

Social Innovation Fundamental #5


Learning Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:

Define and discuss the idea and practice of sustainability


Summarize the key concepts of sustainability
Explain and evaluate current challenges to sustainability in terms of the three
pillars
Evaluate the importance of sustainability in given scenarios which involve
sustainability
Explain and illustrate examples of primary goals of sustainability
What is Social Innovation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flw9g6rzTJo&fe
ature=youtu.be
Social Innovation Fundamental (6 Priorities)
Meeting our present
needs without
compromising the ability of
future generations to meet What is
their own needs
Sustainability?
(Brundtland Commission
1987).
Sustainability has often been
defined as how biological
systems endure and remain
diverse and productive. But,
the 21st-century definition of
sustainability goes far beyond
these narrow parameters.
Today, it refers to the need to
What is
develop the sustainable Sustainability?
models necessary for both the
human race and planet Earth
to survive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTamnlXbgqc
What are the Primary Goals of Sustainability?

 The end of poverty and hunger

 Better standards of education and healthcare -


particularly as it pertains to water quality and better
sanitation

 To achieve gender equality


What are the Primary Goals of Sustainability?
 Sustainable economic growth while promoting
jobs and stronger economies

 All of the above and more while tackling the


effects of climate change, pollution and other
environmental factors that can harm and do harm
people's health, livelihoods and lives.

 Sustainability to include health of the land, air


and sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZ-N2hxUPg
Activity: Group Reflection
1. What unsustainable practices do we
have right now?

2. What do you think are the possible


effects of these unsustainable practices
in our daily lives?
3 Pillars
https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=GsTPbnV8nE0
On September 25th 2015,
countries adopted a set of goals to
end poverty, protect the planet
and ensure prosperity for all as Sustainable
part of a new sustainable
development agenda. Each goal Development
has specific targets to be achieved
over the next 15 years.
Goals (SDG)
https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=5G0ndS3uRdo
Place Caption Here
(Place photo at the back)
Real-life challenges of sustainable development
and strategies to address them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUh5wrKZtLA&t=149s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJC2GtM56rc
Extreme Poverty
Universal Education
Gender Equality
Child/Teen Mortality
Epidemics
Environmental Sustainability
Economic Stability
Natural Disasters
Activity: Group Reflection
1. What is that something you still wish to see by
2050?

2. Why do you wish for that to still exist by then?

3. How do you think can people help to sustain it?


Identify specific ways, if possible.
Resources:
• https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/centers-
initiatives/csi/defining-social-innovation
• https://www.sustainabilitydegrees.com/what-is-sustainability/
• https://permaculturenews.org/2016/01/07/why-is-sustainability-
important/
• http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/sustainable-
development-goals/

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