ID 3301 MIDTERM 1 QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED
greenwash Ans✓✓✓practice of deliberately misleading consumers to
believe a product is environmentally superior by focusing on a single
attribute of the product
United Nations Environment Programme Ans✓✓✓the organization
responsible for sponsoring Agenda 21, the Montreal and Kyoto
Protocols, the Working Group on Sustainable Product Development and
many other key environmental initiatives
ecological footprint Ans✓✓✓method developed by Mathis
Wackernagle for measuring bioproductive land and water required to
sustain the consumption level of a given human population using
prevailing technology
Based on Mathis Wackernagle's data, if everyone on Earth consumed the
same amount of resources as the average American, how many Earth
equivalent plants would be required to meet their needs? Ans✓✓✓6
Silent Spring Ans✓✓✓Rachel Carson's book that is credited with the
birth of the modern environmental movement
What fraction of total electricity production is the manufacturing sector
responsible for in the US? Ans✓✓✓1/3
, What fraction of total electricity production is built environment
responsible for in the US? Ans✓✓✓2/3
Love Canal Ans✓✓✓first recognized natural environmental disaster in
upstate New York
DFE, design for environment Ans✓✓✓systematic design approach for
incorporating environmental attributes into the design of a product
biomimicry Ans✓✓✓approach to innovation that seeks sustainable
solutions to human challenges by emulating nature's patterns and
strategies
Cholera Ans✓✓✓outbreak in London as a result of booming population
growth and overloading of infrastructure which made the Thames River
very dirty
Great Stink Ans✓✓✓dumping of human, animal and industrial waste
into the near stagnant Thames River
5 major product design criteria Ans✓✓✓production
function
cost
aesthetics
sustainability
ANSWERS (100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED
greenwash Ans✓✓✓practice of deliberately misleading consumers to
believe a product is environmentally superior by focusing on a single
attribute of the product
United Nations Environment Programme Ans✓✓✓the organization
responsible for sponsoring Agenda 21, the Montreal and Kyoto
Protocols, the Working Group on Sustainable Product Development and
many other key environmental initiatives
ecological footprint Ans✓✓✓method developed by Mathis
Wackernagle for measuring bioproductive land and water required to
sustain the consumption level of a given human population using
prevailing technology
Based on Mathis Wackernagle's data, if everyone on Earth consumed the
same amount of resources as the average American, how many Earth
equivalent plants would be required to meet their needs? Ans✓✓✓6
Silent Spring Ans✓✓✓Rachel Carson's book that is credited with the
birth of the modern environmental movement
What fraction of total electricity production is the manufacturing sector
responsible for in the US? Ans✓✓✓1/3
, What fraction of total electricity production is built environment
responsible for in the US? Ans✓✓✓2/3
Love Canal Ans✓✓✓first recognized natural environmental disaster in
upstate New York
DFE, design for environment Ans✓✓✓systematic design approach for
incorporating environmental attributes into the design of a product
biomimicry Ans✓✓✓approach to innovation that seeks sustainable
solutions to human challenges by emulating nature's patterns and
strategies
Cholera Ans✓✓✓outbreak in London as a result of booming population
growth and overloading of infrastructure which made the Thames River
very dirty
Great Stink Ans✓✓✓dumping of human, animal and industrial waste
into the near stagnant Thames River
5 major product design criteria Ans✓✓✓production
function
cost
aesthetics
sustainability
