Overview
In your assignment, craft a seven-paragraph essay that includes the following:
Paragraph 1
- Describe your home community, using the Arzaville description in past class discussions (Weeks 2 through 4) as an example of the kinds of information you might include.
- Discuss at least three of the biggest challenges that your home community faces on the path to achieving sustainability.
Paragraph 2
- Explain at least three concrete actions that your community might take that would enhance its ability to sustain local biodiversity and ecosystems.
Paragraph 3
- Discuss at least three specific steps your community might take to improve its capacity for sustaining local soils and sustainable agriculture.
Paragraph 4
- Describe at least three measures that might be taken by your home community to help sustain its freshwater resources.
Paragraph 5
- Propose at least three concrete steps your community might take to better sustain local air quality and reduce negative impact on the global climate.
Paragraph 6
- Discuss at least three specific actions your community might take to manage, reduce, or eliminate its waste more sustainably.
Paragraph 7
- Identify three specific actions that you might take, at the community level, to help support sustainability for your home place.
- Considering the strategies that you have shared in your essay, assess whether your community could achieve sustainability at some point in the future. Why or why not?
The Envisioning Sustainable Communities final paper,
- must be at least 7 paragraphs in length (3 to 5 pages, not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center’s APA StyleLinks to an external site.
- must utilize academic voice.
- Refer to the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
- must include at least 1 scholarly source, 1 credible source, and the class text.
- The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
- must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your PaperLinks to an external site..
- can include a separate references list formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center.
- Refer to the APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resource in the Writing Center for specifications.