Sustainability

"the people who sewed the shirt together might not have been paid a living wage." -Why do they work for the factory but they don't have any money for their work?

"We call it a footprint because it's like the mark we leave on the earth as we go about our daily activities" -Defination of footprint.

" An ecoligical footprint is measured in acres and it is estimate of the area of productive land and amount of water it takes to support the natural resource comsumption habits of a person, community, or nation." -Defination of ecological footprint.

"There are two major components that affected humanity's ecological footprint: population and comsumption" -Why are these two major affect the humanity ecological footprint? Why is this important?

"Like population growth, consumption habits are not static over time" -I thought it can be moved or stood still based on what people do, not just not static.

 Answers of questions:

1)I thought it is about our lifestyles and with the incomes suitable with those lifestyles. If you have enough conditions for life needs, than you can use the high quality of appliances and recycle things that you used. Additionally, you're orangzied people and economized people, you'll have ideas for keeping your money from using less energies. But if you don't have enough conditions in life, so you have to use the low quality appliances and bad machines. Those low-quality things damaged a lot for our environment, they need lots of energies for activating and working. Thas's a big difference between high income and low income

2)Exemples for:

Energy-efficient appliances: Solar energies and wind energies instead of electricity and hydroelectric

Renewable sources of energy: use the man-made inventions, reuse water, recycle papers,...

Hybrid cars: buy less cars, buy the car enough for seats, use public transportation, walk or ride bicycle in short distances, use cars that don't use animals' skin, nor lots of energies,...

=>People can use less money for these examples above and they don't need to much money.

3)I think instead of that, it'll aware to everyone because if they use those wasting-energies machines, they'll probably pay lots of money for them. Furthermore, today, for their businesses, there are lots of polices be professional in many broad fields like environment, traffic,etc. Therefore, they must follow the laws in a long time and that will be their habbit if they do it for a long time.

4)From reducing our ecological footprint, our lives were going to be high qualities. We pay less money for taxes, less money for buying new things, less area for store trash and garbages, help a part in preserving the environment and protecting the earth.

One of my friend*

3 years ago, I’ve traveled Da Lat with my family. Once upon a time, when my parents were going shopping, I left my hotel and walked people-watching. Then, I met a person seemed reliable and weirdly kind and tender. I started to make friend with him. His name is Memidy Lollanchy. Time still goes every days, he became my pen pal as well as my typing pal after I got home. I understood more about him. He’s a black person came from Iraq. When he got familiar with me, I saw we have similarities such as hobbies and habits. We’re Buddhists and we’re 13 years old, too.  I asked him why he has been in Viet Nam. He said he migrated to Viet Nam 1 year before we met. I wonder whether why he chose Viet Nam  for living. He said “I went here because my parents got the information that Viet Nam’s a good place to live. Even though, it isn’t developed as much. But I still recognized it’s wonderful while I’ve time here!” Then, he smiled and continued with a joke “You know, every day, I don’t have to pay money to go into cinema, because I’ve seen the action and horror movies in real life. I ate the out-layer of boom and breathed with the smell of boom regularly. Booms nearly were going to be my friends, maybe. And the gang violence or some of the fanatic or revolt religious people were their bosses.”

Come back with the conversation, I nearly caught his memory. Later, I questioned him how he thought about Viet Nam. Happily, he answered me surely, he has visited 6 cities in VN and he said it’s awesome, with plants, flowers and moved sights. Moreover, Vietnamese are friendly, hospitable and kind. He was helped with many young children for suitable of living here. And when he had a first day at school, he was too interested and excited because he had lots of friends and found many things that he hasn’t seen yet. Besides, his parents also got careers and were helped by their colleagues. He added one more things that he was happy because he got many good friends, including me. He concluded that Viet Nam is better than his homeland before in any ways. If possible, he wants to come back there for visiting but not for surviving.