BBE 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Small Business, Embodied Energy, Restorative Justice
16 Dec 2017
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Heavy focus towards homesteading - individual implantation of holistic landscaping approaches occurring on remote parcels of land. Focuses on small-scale systems which are labfor efficient. Regenerative culture: passing along knowledge for future growth. Community development: creating connections, sense of community, building social capital. Restorative justice: a theory of justice that emphasizes repairing the harm caused by humanity. Many environmental certification systems for materials are voluntary. Opportunity to identify leaders and voluntarily improve practices. Identify materials that are produced following specific practices (meeting values/standards) Standard setting audit accredited certification body/auditor audit producer/company: responsible for ensuring that certification requirements are met and participate in audits/reporting. After producer/raw material is certified, chain-of-custody certification is the process by which the source of material is verified. In this process, the certified material is tracked and identified from the produced through all steps of production until it reaches the end user. Third-party certification (type 1 label) includes an independent auditing verification process.
