What is environmental stewardship?

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What is environmental stewardship?

Answer 1

It refers to someone who is aware of environmental issues, practices environmentally friendly concepts, and thinks of the environmental first....

Answer 2

Environmental stewardship is responsibility for taking good care of resources. Every steward has his or her own definition of what stewardship means to them. Stewardship often evokes a sense of personal responsibility for ensuring our natural resources are sustainably managed for our own quality of life, and for future generations. Stewardship of the environment can include recycling, conservation, regeneration, and restoration.

Some common definitions of the term include:

Stewardship is an ethic whereby citizens participate in the careful and responsible management of air, land, water and biodiversity to ensure we have healthy ecosystems for present and future generations.

Stewardship is an ethic that embodies cooperative planning and management of environmental resources with organizations, communities and others to actively engage in the prevention of loss of habitat and facilitate its recovery in the interest of long-term sustainability.



Environmental stewardship may have a religious connotation for some people, as in the christian suggestion that people should be "stewards of god's earth, and it is in their duty to respect his creatures."

Answer 3

Or in simple language, don't throw trash from your car, pick up papers you drop outside, give your car tuneups and oil changes but don't pour oil down the street drains, don't throw cigarette butts everywhere, limit pesticides and fertilizers on your lawn, recycle products, don't pour coffee, soda or other liquids on the street or parking lots, and, don't wash your car in your driveway because the storm sewers usually go directly into main waterways, not waste water recycling units.

Answer 4

environmental stewardship is a broad term.  it is taking responsibility helping to save the natural environmment.  here are two excellent ways of practicing enironmental stewardship in everyday life.

Over 80% of the dry tropical forests from northern Costa Rica to Mexico have been cut down. Areas of this size and larger have been cut down throughout the world including the Amazon, Indonesia, the Congo and other rain forests. The Caribbean side of Costa Rica has also been decimated with deforestation. The temperature after removing the

rain forest has risen dramatically in these large tracts of land. The weather pattern also changes from this deforestation in each locality and they become drier. When these huge

areas have their trees removed, erosion dumps millions of tons of sediment into the rivers that flow into the oceans. This sediment slowly suffocates the polyps of the precious coral reefs in the tropics.

What is the main reason for cutting these rain forests down? The main reason is to make room to raise cattle, not logging as many people think. With logging they generally cut down large hardwoods. To raise cow meat they cut down everything. In Central America

much of the beef is exported to the United States. The cattle industry, over all, causes more global warming than car emissions do. What can the average person do?   eat soy, legumes and nuts as a protein source. This is a better way to practice sustainability. If the beef is grown in the United States sorry that isn't sustainable either. A person who eats cow meat (beef) as their main protein source requires about 30 acres of land each year and over 2000 gallons of precious water to raise that steer for protein. That is not sustainability. A person eating soy for their main source of protein only requires one acre of land and about 40 gallons of water each year to grow it. Also, soy doesn't add millions of tons of methane gas each year to our atmosphere. it actually absorbs co2.  cows do produce over 100 million tons of this global warming methane gas in the U.S. alone. Cattle excrement also is adding to major pollution problems in our water systems today. Stop eating beef! Or if you absolutely can't stop eating beef, cut back to once a week or once a month. if you must eat a meat chicken is much less destructive to the environment than beef, here in the tropics. Besides, refraining from eating beef is healthier in the long run.

Here is another important environmental disaster, 90% percent of the shrimp served in the U.S. and in other countries comes from the tropics. It is harvested in non-sustainable ways. I have witnessed in one month over 190 sea turtles wash up on shore with their fins cut off, dead from drowning by shrimpers in the osa penninsula. Along with that, for every pound of shrimp harvested, about ten pounds of other creatures are killed and thrown overboard. Yes, much shrimp is farmed. The farms are generally constructed where mangrove swamps, another very important and fragile ecosystem, have been cut down for this purpose and ponds are made to raise the shrimp. After the shrimp are harvested from these ponds the water in them is released into the mangroves. Unfortunately the nitrate level is so high that many of the mangrove fish and other underwater creatures die. So eating shrimp is not sustainable either for our planet. If you want to take responsibility in helping save our planet from global warming, deforestation of the rain forests, dying coral reefs there are many other eating alternatives. please, eat to live, don't live to eat.

For our children's sake and the sake of the rain forests, coral reefs and the entire planet we need to step up and do something other than practice over indulgence. Cavemen had to hunt to get their protein and that was ok. Then we started raising animals to get our protein and that was needed. Now we know how to get all of the protein we need from plants. So it is time to evolve another step and stop the senseless cruelty to raising animals for food and also help control global warming and its effects at the same time.

henry

Answer 5

It is the way of living green and promoting it, usually through a group, organization or a company.

Here is an example of a corporation operating in this standard;

We've been honored for our environmental stewardship

Business, industry and governmental organizations have acknowledged the environmental accomplishments of FPL Group, of which we are an integral part, including the following:

FPL Group received a No. 1 ranking for environmental performance among 23 electric utilities for the fourth straight time from Innovest, an internationally recognized research firm.

In January 2005, FPL Group was named one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World by Corporate Knights, Inc., a Canadian media company. Chosen from a universe of 2,000 of the world’s largest corporations, FPL Group was cited for the honor after achieving a sustainability performance that places it within the top five percent of its sector.

As part of the EPA’s Climate Leader Program, FPL Group committed to achieve an 18 percent reduction in emissions rates of greenhouse gases by 2008 compared to a 2001 baseline.

FPL Group is also the largest U.S. power company to have joined World Wildlife Fund’s Powerswitch! Pioneers program in which it intends to continue its successful demand reduction programs and achieve a 15 percent improvement in energy generation through the addition of more power plants and the investment in wind power and other renewable energy sources.

In 2005, FPL Energy received the Outstanding Stewardship of America's Rivers Award from the National Hydropower Association for our efforts in Maine.

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