ENVS 2130- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 49 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Sciences
• Course: ENVS 2130
• Professor: Peter Kim

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Envs 2130 eating sustainability in ontario unit 1. Read chapter 1 and 2, human activity and the environment: annual statistics (2009) Human activity and the environment: section 1 annual statistics (2009) (pages 11-37: canadians represent about 0. 5% of the global population, product 1. 5% of the food in the world and we consume about 0. 6% of the world food production. In 2007, we spent 92 billion on food and beverages, 50 billion in restaurants and more than 70% of the food brought in canadian stores was produced domestically. It all began with the hunting and gathering, fish and farming lifestyles of the first nations: they farmed corn, beans and squash around the great lakes/st. Lawrence: bison was central to life on the plains and salmon to those of the pacific. In 1921, canada was largely a rural country with half of canadians living in rural areas. In 1921, agriculture was the single most common occupation, employing over 1,041,618.