first, to enable you to explore a term (concept, technique, place, etc.) related to this week’s theme of sustaining atmosphere and climate;  2) second, to provide your fourth contribution to a collect

first, to enable you to explore a term (concept, technique, place, etc.) related to this week’s theme of sustaining atmosphere and climate; 

2) second, to provide your fourth contribution to a collective project, the Class Sustainable Living Guide. 

Your work this week, will be gathered 

(along with that of your peers) into a master document you will receive a few days after the end of the course. The document will provide everyone with a variety of ideas for how we can all live more sustainably in our homes and communities.

To complete this assignment,

• You will first need to select a term from the list of choices in the Week 4 - Term Selection Forum. Reply to the forum with the term that you would like to research. Do not select a term that a classmate has already chosen. No two students will be researching the same topic.
• Next, download the Week 4 Assignment Template and replace the guiding text with your own words based upon your online research. Please do not include a cover page. All references, however, should be cited in your work and listed at the end, following APA format expectations.

In the template, you will

• Define the term thoroughly.
• Clearly relate the term to the week’s theme.
• Explain how the term affects living things and the physical world.
• Relate the term to the challenge of achieving environmental sustainability.
• Justify if the term represents an obstacle to that goal, or perhaps a technique or technology that might promote it.
• Suggest two specific actions we can take to promote sustainability in relationship to this term.
• Provide detailed examples to support your ideas.

The Week 4 Assignment

• Must be three paragraphs in length (not including title, quoted text, and references) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style resource (Links to an external site.).