Authors:

• Luke Barrett
  Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  Michigan Tech
• Emily Owens
  Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  Michigan Tech

Advisors:

• Dr. James Mihelcic
  Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  Sustainable Futures Institute
  Michigan Tech
• Heather Luoto
  Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science Mathematics and Environmental Education (Engadine)
• Kristine Bradof
  Center for Science & Environmental Outreach
  Michigan Tech

Production:

Tech Alive

• Animation and Web Design:
  Dr. Susan E. Hill
  Michigan Tech
• Production Management:
  Dr. Martin T. Auer
  Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  Michigan Tech

This web page was developed under a grant awarded to the Western Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.

Ms. Shawn Oppliger, Center Director and Project Coordinator
Ms. Joan Chadde, Center Education Program Coordinator and Project Coordinator
Mr. Thomas M. Occhipinti, MDEQ Environmental Education Coordinator and Grant Administrator

Media Credits

Title Page: Sustainability

• Individual icon: Luke Barrett.
• Community icon: Luke Barrett.
• Global icon: Luke Barrett.
• Sustainability Perspective animation: © 2005 State of Michigan. Graphics by Luke Barrett.

What is Sustainability?

• Nuclear Power photo: United States Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes National Program.
• Quote by Mihelcic et al. “Sustainability science and engineering: Emergence of a new metadiscipline,” Environmental Science & Technology, 2003, 37 (23) 5314-5324.

Ecological Footprint

• Individual icon: Luke Barrett.
• Football Field illustration: Luke Barrett.

Current Energy Consumption

• Individual icon: Luke Barrett.
• Four Worlds illustration: Luke Barrett.

Buildings and Roads

• Individual icon: Luke Barrett.
• Bunker Interpretive Center Laboratory Classroom photo: Calvin College. Used with permission.
• Data from United Nations Environment Programme Global Environmental Outlook 3 and Horvath, A. “Construction materials and the environment,” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 29:181-204, 2004.
  

Ecological Footprint of Nations

• Individual icon: Luke Barrett.
• Ecological Footprint of Nations illustration: Luke Barrett. Sustainability Indicators Program, March 2004.

Individuals and Sustainability

• Individual icon: Luke Barrett.

Sustainability in the Great Lakes

• Community icon: Luke Barrett.
• Great Lakes Basin Watershed illustration: Luke Barrett. Data from Ontario Power Generation.

Ecology and Economy

• Community icon: Luke Barrett.

Great Lakes Resources

• Community icon: Luke Barrett.
• Port of Toledo Docks photo: United States Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes National Program.

USPC Goals

• Community icon: Luke Barrett.
• Lake Michigan Beach photo: United States Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes National Program.
• Lake Michigan Shoreline photo: United States Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes National Program.

UN Millennium Development Goals

• Global icon: Luke Barrett.
• UN General Assembly photo: UN Photo.

World Health

• Global icon: Luke Barrett.
• Health photo: Jim Welch, DOE/NREL.

Goal 1 – Eradicate Hunger & Poverty

• Global icon: Luke Barrett.
• Global Poverty animation: © 2005 State of Michigan. Graphics by Luke Barrett. Data from UN MDGs.
• Malnourished Child photo: UN Photo #187742C.

Goal 2 – Achieve Universal Primary Education

• Global icon: Luke Barrett.
• Bhutan Schoolboys Reading photo: UN Photo #152047C.
• Pakastani Girl Writing photo: UN Photo #152390.

Goal 3 – Promote Gender Equality & Empower Women

• Global icon: Luke Barrett.
• Empowering Women animation: © 2005 State of Michigan. Graphics by Luke Barrett. Data from UN MDGs.
• Women Making Clay Pots in Upper Volta photo: UN Photo #152855C.

Goal 4 – Reduce Child Mortality

• Global icon: Luke Barrett.
• Child Morality animation: © 2005 State of Michigan. Data from UN MDGs.
• Rural Children in Ghana photo: Roger Taylor, DOE/NREL.

Goal 5 – Improve Maternal Health

• Global icon: Luke Barrett.
• Children's Clinic lithograph: New York: American Artists Group, 1936. Public domain image from the U. S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.

Goal 6 – Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria & Other Diseases

• Global icon: Luke Barrett.
• HIV/Aids animation: © 2005 State of Michigan.
• Volunteer in Zambia Providing AIDs Health Information photo: UN Photo #UN205381.

Goal 7 – Ensure Environmental Sustainability

• Global icon: Luke Barrett.
• Outdoor Market in Rural Ghana photo: Roger Taylor, DOE/NREL.

Goal 8 – Develop a Global Partnership for Development

• Global icon: Luke Barrett.

Imagine

• Global icon: Luke Barrett.
• Global Partnership Norman Rockwell painting : UN Photo.

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