Consider the following questions:
1. In your community, or one you visit, what aspects of suburban sprawl and urban blight are evident? How does the blight impact you and your family? Identify some options of how the effects from the evidences of blight might be alleviated.
2. What is one major cause of present-day reduction of species diversity? What might be some personal impacts of having more biodiversity or less biodiversity in your community? Explain.
3. Is your community people- or car-oriented? Why or why not and how can you tell? How does that orientation affect both energy use and sustainability of your community? How might the orientation of you community be transitioned for the future of your community?