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Assignment: The Planet Sustainability Assessment Goal: Research the sustainability of an activity that you do (or participate in). You will consider alternatives to achieve the same outcome, make recommendations, and explain how your approach supports sustainability principles that provide ecological, economic, and social gains. What to Do: Your written sustainability assessment report will include the following nine sections:
1. Issue: Describe the activity that you do (or participate in) that your sustainability assessment will address and briefly why it is currently unsustainable.
2. Desired outcomes: To be truly sustainable, the activity must be (1) ecologically sound, (2) economically feasible, and (3) socially equitable. Comment on why the activity does/does not satisfy each of these outcomes. Ensure to support your ideas with relevant evidence from high quality sources.
3. Decision-making protocol: In a table format, develop a protocol that will provide a basis for selecting among alternatives. For each of the outcomes mentioned above, the protocol should include your (1) decision-making criteria, (2) acceptability criteria and, (3) targets.
4. Alternatives: Briefly describe three alternatives to achieve the same objective.
5. Evaluation of alternatives: Explain the pros and cons of each of your alternatives, provide quantitative estimates for the alternatives and ensure to support your ideas with references from high quality sources.
6. Preferred alternative: identify the best alternative and justify your selection.
7. Mitigation and management: In a series of bulleted points, explain what measures should be taken to achieve the maximum sustainable outcome.
8. Conclusions: What are your recommendations? Explain how your approach supports sustainable principles that provide ecological, economic, and social gains.