Class IX – Information Technology (402)

Part A – Employability Skills

Unit 5 - Green Skills
Society and environment
Natural resources
• Land Resources
• Forest Resources
• Water Resources
• Mineral Resources
• Food resources
• Energy Resources
Natural resources fall under the following main categories.
• Inexhaustible resources
• Exhaustible resources
• Renewable Resources
• Non- Renewable Resources
Saving the Environment
• Learning about the environment.
• Learning through the environment.
• Learning for the environment.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Conserving Natural Resources:
• Soil Conservation
• Water Conservation
• Energy Conservation
Sustainable Development and Green Economy.
-Satisfies the needs of the present without compromising the capacity of future
generation, guaranteeing the balance between economic growth for environment and social
well-being.
Sustainable Development Goals.
- The Sustainable development Goals (SDGs) were launched at the united Nations
sustainable Development Summit in New York in September 2015, forming the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development- 17 SDG.
Green Growth:
- Achieving economic growth that is socially inclusive and environmentally
sustainable.
Green Economy:
-results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing
environmental risks and ecological scarcities.
Components of a green Economy:
• Renewable Energy
• Green building
• Well Managed (sustainable) transport.
• Water management
• Waste Management
• Land management
Green Skills:
The skills used for promoting green economy.
• Using renewable energy (Ex: using solar power and wind Energy)
• Water and waste Management
• Rain water harvesting
• Conserving energy
• Reducing pollution
Green Jobs:
A ‘green job’ is employment in any industry that contributes to preserving or restoring
environmental quality in that sector and allowing for sustainable development.

Green Projects:
• Solid Waste Management by 'Swachh Cooperative'
• Modern Chulha of ‘Society of Development and Environment Protection’
• Bio toilet by ‘Green Solution Foundation’