Sustainability

This topic looks at sustainability and its 3 pillars: environmental, economic and social. It also gives examples from an Aotearoa New Zealand perspective. SCIS no; 1976522

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Sustainability: Introduction
Sustainability: Introduction
Today more than ever, governments and communities need to develop sustainable strategies, but what is sustainability and how can we provide the next generations with a successful, sustainable future?
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ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
It is even more crucial today that businesses develop a sustainable strategy. This story explores the concept of economic sustainability and its history with specific reference to New Zealand.
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CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
Social and cultural sustainability is the way we as a nation ensure the wellbeing of our community by recognising, developing and sustaining basic human needs like, human rights, equality , health...
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Environmental sustainability involves thinking about how we view the environment and its resources. This story looks at six key priorities for making use of resources in ways that ensure they will ...
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SUSTAINABILITY: TAKING ACTION
SUSTAINABILITY: TAKING ACTION
This story provides resources for teachers and students exploring taking action around sustainability at home, at school, and in their communities.
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Sustainability with Style
Sustainability with Style
Ellerslie International Flower Show 2010. Designed by Phil and Linda Ducker. Soil & Health Canterbury and The Good Gardeners Association Christchurch. Organic garden and building from recycling mat...
Other
Hubbard, James, 1949- :Cost of living. 19 April 2011
An anxious kiwi wonders about his own economic sustainability while the cost of living keeps rising.
An enormous hot-air balloon that represents the 'Cost of living' floats off into the clouds when its anchor representing 'tax cut' is yanked out of the ground. A very anxious kiwi peers out of the ...
Images
Waiwhetu Stream, Lower Hutt, polluted by industrial waste
Waiwhetū means 'star reflecting stream' — but in 1975, the polluted Waiwhetū stream bore the impact of economic growth.
Waiwhetu stream in Lower Hutt, polluted by industrial waste. Photograph taken circa 11 October June 1975 by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Other - Photograph published in the E...
Images
Photographs of a protest against the World Dairy Summit, Wellington
Protesters against the World Dairy Summit gather outside Fonterra, New Zealand’s dairy giant’s office in Wellington.
Photographs of a Wellington protest against the World Dairy Summit, taken 8 November 2010 by Dylan Owen. The photographs show protesters gathered outside Fonterra's office at Midland Park, Wellingt...
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Lotto's Winning Wheel
Lotto has provided millions of dollars of funding for New Zealand social and cultural groups, locally and nationally.
During the early 2010s the Saturday-night Lotto draw on television included a segment where someone had the opportunity to spin a 'Winning Wheel' and win up to $1 million. In November 2011 Hamilton...
Images
Wai 262 inquiry documents
Wai 262 recognises the rights of traditional Māori knowledge and customs as it relates to the whenua.
The vast body of research and evidence built up by Waitangi Tribunal historians during the course of a hearing is graphically illustrated in this 2007 photograph. It shows the boxes of files for th...
Images
Logging kauri: log pile-up
Demand for timber from English shipbuilders saw large tracts of New Zealand's native forests logged in the 1800s.
At rivermouths kauri logs accumulated in vast numbers, as here on the Waiwawa River, which reaches Mercury Bay near present-day Coroglen. It is likely they would have then been barged to a sawmill,...
Images
Ōhaaki power station
Geothermal energy is just one source of renewable energy harnessed in New Zealand to generate power.
The cooling tower of the Ōhaaki geothermal power station is a distinctive industrial landmark on the Volcanic Plateau.
Images
Dead seabirds
Developing sustainable fishing practices is vital to the protection of marine ecosystems and biodiversity in our oceans.
These albatrosses were caught on the hooks of longliners – commercial fishing vessels with spools of fishing line stretching for kilometres. Attracted to fishing vessels because they are a source o...
Images
Waiata for Victoria Cross winner at Ruatoria, 1943
Māori waiata can be used to transfer important cultural knowledge through music.
Women perform a waiata during the hui in Ruatoria to award the Victoria Cross to Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu, October 1943.
Images
Orange Pore Fungus - Favolaschia calocera
Small and often unnoticed, fungi like these play important roles in ensuring the health of our forests.
Images
Poster, 'Keep it Coming'
This poster produced in America during WWI shows the importance placed on minimising food waste at that time.
Saving food, saving lines This First World War poster was created by the United States Food Administration to advocate for conservation of food resources for overseas allies and encourage the idea ...
Images
Underwater sediment build-up
This diagram illustrates the adverse effects of sediment finding its way into waterways and inevitably, our oceans.
Too much sediment disrupts coastal marine life in two main ways. First it coats them with fine particles of silt, making it difficult for them to extract oxygen from the sea water. Second, it block...
Sets
Sustainability: Introduction
Sustainability: Introduction
Today more than ever, governments and communities need to develop sustainable strategies, but what is sustainability and how can we provide the next generations with a successful, sustainable future?
Sets
ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
It is even more crucial today that businesses develop a sustainable strategy. This story explores the concept of economic sustainability and its history with specific reference to New Zealand.
Sets
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
Social and cultural sustainability is the way we as a nation ensure the wellbeing of our community by recognising, developing and sustaining basic human needs like, human rights, equality , health...
Sets
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Environmental sustainability involves thinking about how we view the environment and its resources. This story looks at six key priorities for making use of resources in ways that ensure they will ...
Sets
SUSTAINABILITY: TAKING ACTION
SUSTAINABILITY: TAKING ACTION
This story provides resources for teachers and students exploring taking action around sustainability at home, at school, and in their communities.
Images
Sustainability with Style
Sustainability with Style
Ellerslie International Flower Show 2010. Designed by Phil and Linda Ducker. Soil & Health Canterbury and The Good Gardeners Association Christchurch. Organic garden and building from recycling mat...
Other
Hubbard, James, 1949- :Cost of living. 19 April 2011
An anxious kiwi wonders about his own economic sustainability while the cost of living keeps rising.
An enormous hot-air balloon that represents the 'Cost of living' floats off into the clouds when its anchor representing 'tax cut' is yanked out of the ground. A very anxious kiwi peers out of the ...
Images
Waiwhetu Stream, Lower Hutt, polluted by industrial waste
Waiwhetū means 'star reflecting stream' — but in 1975, the polluted Waiwhetū stream bore the impact of economic growth.
Waiwhetu stream in Lower Hutt, polluted by industrial waste. Photograph taken circa 11 October June 1975 by an unidentified photographer for the Evening Post. Other - Photograph published in the E...
Images
Photographs of a protest against the World Dairy Summit, Wellington
Protesters against the World Dairy Summit gather outside Fonterra, New Zealand’s dairy giant’s office in Wellington.
Photographs of a Wellington protest against the World Dairy Summit, taken 8 November 2010 by Dylan Owen. The photographs show protesters gathered outside Fonterra's office at Midland Park, Wellingt...
Images
Lotto's Winning Wheel
Lotto has provided millions of dollars of funding for New Zealand social and cultural groups, locally and nationally.
During the early 2010s the Saturday-night Lotto draw on television included a segment where someone had the opportunity to spin a 'Winning Wheel' and win up to $1 million. In November 2011 Hamilton...
Images
Wai 262 inquiry documents
Wai 262 recognises the rights of traditional Māori knowledge and customs as it relates to the whenua.
The vast body of research and evidence built up by Waitangi Tribunal historians during the course of a hearing is graphically illustrated in this 2007 photograph. It shows the boxes of files for th...
Images
Logging kauri: log pile-up
Demand for timber from English shipbuilders saw large tracts of New Zealand's native forests logged in the 1800s.
At rivermouths kauri logs accumulated in vast numbers, as here on the Waiwawa River, which reaches Mercury Bay near present-day Coroglen. It is likely they would have then been barged to a sawmill,...
Images
Ōhaaki power station
Geothermal energy is just one source of renewable energy harnessed in New Zealand to generate power.
The cooling tower of the Ōhaaki geothermal power station is a distinctive industrial landmark on the Volcanic Plateau.
Images
Dead seabirds
Developing sustainable fishing practices is vital to the protection of marine ecosystems and biodiversity in our oceans.
These albatrosses were caught on the hooks of longliners – commercial fishing vessels with spools of fishing line stretching for kilometres. Attracted to fishing vessels because they are a source o...
Images
Waiata for Victoria Cross winner at Ruatoria, 1943
Māori waiata can be used to transfer important cultural knowledge through music.
Women perform a waiata during the hui in Ruatoria to award the Victoria Cross to Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu, October 1943.
Images
Orange Pore Fungus - Favolaschia calocera
Small and often unnoticed, fungi like these play important roles in ensuring the health of our forests.
Images
Poster, 'Keep it Coming'
This poster produced in America during WWI shows the importance placed on minimising food waste at that time.
Saving food, saving lines This First World War poster was created by the United States Food Administration to advocate for conservation of food resources for overseas allies and encourage the idea ...
Images
Underwater sediment build-up
This diagram illustrates the adverse effects of sediment finding its way into waterways and inevitably, our oceans.
Too much sediment disrupts coastal marine life in two main ways. First it coats them with fine particles of silt, making it difficult for them to extract oxygen from the sea water. Second, it block...

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