Clackamas Community College HOR 122 Greenhouse Crops/Potted Plants

Clackamas Community College HOR 122 Greenhouse Crops/Potted Plants

Oregon City, Oregon 97045 Elizabeth Howley, Instructor

Assignment – due at 7:00 a.m., Thursday Week 8

Incorporating Sustainability into Your Greenhouse Business Operation

The purpose of this assignment is to help each of us to recognize that we are allies of change in the arena of sustainability, and additionally become a agent of change at greenhouse businesses.

Using resources, such as a dictionary, define Sustain and share this with the class:

Select an area of concentration, of a greenhouse plant production business, which you would like to focus this assignment, from the following list (should, for some reason, none of the areas listed be of interest to you, please confer with the instructor for selection ideas*): media/substrate, containers/pots, containers/flats, containers/boxes, seeds/plant starts, labels/tags, beneficial organisms, irrigation, tools, fertilizer, lighting, heating systems, cooling systems, greenhouse glazing, transportation, marketing materials, *. Our goal is to answer the BIG QUESTION

Students, who have selected like areas of concentration, may work in groups of two, on this assignment.

·  Be sure that you consider your style, and share this with others, are you a parts to whole thinker or a whole to parts thinker

·  Be sure to include technical content and communication skills in the completed assignment (questions? Contact )

·  Students submit their completed assignment to

Here we go . . . you have defined ‘sustain’ now let’s see what you can do to incorporate practices, in the area of concentration you selected, that would be suited to infusing sustainability into your greenhouse business.

The following resources are to be used as a guide/idea springboard to aid in the completion of this assignment, spend quality time reviewing 10 or more of these sites:

http://www.ecotecture.com/category/green-economy/

http://toddecological.com/

http://cpedia.com/wiki?q=Bucky+Fuller+1895+Spaceship+Earth&guess_ambig=Bucky+Fuller+1895+Spaceship+Earth+Buckminster+Richard+Buckminster+Dymaxion+1895-1983+

http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/23

http://nwei.org/

http://www.ahherald.com/oaktrail/oot010301_design_nature.htm

http://web.rollins.edu/~jsiry/McHargBook.html

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/green-inventors-coconut-project.html

http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?

http://www.nwalliance.org/

http://energytrust.org/

http://www.hbs.edu/research/

http://www.conserveh2o.org/

http://environment.about.com/od/earthtalkcolumns/a/recycleplastics.htm

http://www.csgrp.com/business/casestudies/index.html

http://www.solarworld-usa.com/

http://www.ted.com/talks/tags/id/43

http://www.efunda.com/formulae/heat_transfer/home/overview.cfm

http://www.actionbioscience.org/environment/esa.html

www.formos

others?

BIG QUESTION:

What specific sustainable practice will you utilize at your greenhouse business?