| 1. the act of promoting the responsible, renewable consumption of the natural resources of the earth to protect the environment and its natural resources from contamination or depletion |
2. the act of using, often to the detriment of the environment, the planets natural resources |
3. when the environment or an ecosystem has been damaged by the introduction of a harmful, often toxic substance destroying a natural resource and the dependant plant and animal life |
4. the effect of altering the natural environment, mostly by overpopulation, over-cultivating, altering the natural flow of water, and introduction of non-native plant life; degrading the soil to the point it can no longer sustain life causing dry |
| 5. the beneficial, balanced interaction and interdependency of the environment and the organisms that live within it |
6. the over-consumption and misuse of the environment and its natural resources |
7. causing a plant or animal species or organism to no longer exist, usually due to over-hunting or destruction of an ecosystem |
8. the process by which a society is transformed from a pre-industrial state to an industrial one, often causing a rise in pollution and ill effects on the environment |
| 9. any substance relating to or originating from a living organism |
10. the harmful, often toxic, human produced contaminates that disrupt or destroy an ecosystem or natural resource |
11. the act of protecting the environment and its resources by removing all human influence or interaction |
12. to create new products by reusing and processing used materials |
| 13. a natural resource that can be replenished via natural processes |
14. to use a resource via methods that do not deplete the supply of the resource |
15. the often toxic by-product produced by various industrialized activities that are usually very harmful to the environment and cause contamination |
